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New software ideas get a step closer to space10 May 2013 Project managers at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are preparing to welcome candidates from across Europe to develop the requirements for the OPS-SAT mission. Software developers responded to a public invitation to put forward ideas for t...
ESA seeks software innovators for supercharged orbiting laboratory13 March 2013 The ESA General Studies Programme (GSP) is offering the opportunity for software developers to use its new laboratory in space. It's a chance for individuals, academic institutes, and industry to fly their own new systems on an accelerated programme,...
And the winner is …27 February 2013
And the winner is …27 February 2013 The first edition of the ESA SysNova award, a competition for space mission design solutions, has a winner. It’s not the Oscars and there were no Hollywood celebrities, but SysNova has a lot to do with the stars and with both academic and industrial c...
Asteroid impact mission targets Didymos 22 February 2013
Asteroid impact mission targets Didymos 22 February 2013 ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission now has a target: asteroid Didymos. The recent Russian meteor and, on the same day, our planet’s close encounter with an even larger chunk of celestial debris underline the need for us t...
Space Innovation with SysNova14 December 2012
Space Innovation with SysNova14 December 2012 In June 2012 the GSP initiated SysNova: a new type of activity, based on a competition with the goal of getting the most innovative ideas from the space field. The results of this first edition will be presented at the SysNova Workshop which wil...
