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German students deliver their custom art to ESOC for MOCUP trial
Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover
 
7 May 2012   Challenged to design a background for a small rover controlled from space, students in Germany have delivered a futuristic cityscape. The cool space art will be seen by astronauts in orbit via the rover’s camera eye as they remotely control their avatar later this year.
Artist's concept for Ops-Sat
Innovative nanosat will test space software
 
20 April 2012   How do you test ground-breaking satellite software under real flight conditions? Why not build a satellite? A new design developed by ESA promises new opportunities for European space industry to test software on an actual mission in space.
Mars Express
Designing the interplanetary web
 
13 April 2012   Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering technologies that ESA is working on for future exploration missions.
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29 March 2012   The delicate art of building and testing spacecraft structures
5 March 2012   Lunar lander firing up for touchdown
12 December 2011   ESA engineers explore nano-world with new X-ray instrument
27 October 2011   Swarm: magnetic field satellites get their bearings


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