Space Engineering Highlights archive

2012

9 March
Building Vega meant testing materials to their limits

2011

9 September
Making space systems mobile: website highlights ESA’s Mechanisms section

4 July
Radiation: satellites’ unseen enemy

1 July
Hot stuff: the making of BepiColombo

6 June
Optics Poster Gallery - Work with light

Materials and Electrical Components Laboratories Poster Gallery - Effects of space on materials

2010

13 December
How Hubble got its wings

28 July
Small French firm behind Herschel’s giant mirror

Test Centre virtual tour

26 July
European eXPErimental Reentry Testbed

28 April
ESA missions extend fibre optics to orbit

25 January
Human dependability: how to deal with human error