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| | | | | | | ESTEC Tour
| Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) in the acoustic test facility (LEAF).
Credits: ESA - Anneke Le Floc'h | |  |  | |
| | | | | | ESA engineers working in the Concurrent Design Facility at ESTEC | | | | |
| | | | Wie bouwt de satellieten?
| Inside a kind of radio-proof chamber, tests show the spacecraft's communication equipment works reliably.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | | Envisat, was launched in 2002, and is the successor to ESA's European Remote Sensing Satellite, ERS-1 and ERS-2. Envisat is the first mission based upon the development of the Polar Platform, and carries a second generation of instruments currently on ERS-1 in particular.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | Wie brengt de satelliet in zijn juiste baan?
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Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace-Service Optique CSG | | | | |
| | | | | Resembling a beast from a nightmare rearing its head from a crimson sea, this celestial object is just a pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (in NGC 2264) because in ground-based images it has a conical shape this monstrous pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region. This picture, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the upper 2.5 light-years of the Cone, a height equal to 23 million round trips to the Moon. The entire pillar is seven light-years long. The Cone Nebula is a cousin of the M16 pillars, which the Hubble telescope imaged in 1995. Consisting mainly of cold gas, the pillars in both regions resist being eroded away by the blistering ultraviolet radiation from young, massive stars. Pillars like the Cone and M16 are common in large regions of star birth. Astronomers believe that these pillars may be incubators for developing stars.
Credits: NASA, Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA | | | | |
| | | | Hoe is ESTEC betrokken bij het Internationale Ruimtestation?
| The International Space Station (ISS) seen from Space Shuttle Discovery during rendezvous and docking activities on 6 July 2006.
Credits: NASA | | | | |
| | | | | ESA astronaut André Kuipers during the DELTA Mission on board the International Space Station in April 2004. Kuipers is wearing the SUIT experiment vest. The aim of the SUIT project is to support the astronaut with a vibrotactile suit to help with orientation in space. This suit consists of numerous small vibrating elements covering the torso. These elements inform the astronaut of a given predefined direction within the ISS by vibrating in that direction.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
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