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    At ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, a high-fidelity replica of the Gaia spacecraft does faithful duty on ground as a testbed, helping make flight control in space more efficient and reliable 18 January 2018 Gaia avionics model 1949 Votes: 60
    On 25 December 2003, after a journey lasting 205 days and covering 400 million kilometres, Mars Express entered orbit around Mars. 14 December 2017 Christmas operations 1485 Votes: 52
    Engineering models enable engineers at ESOC to test software for the two spacecraft in a safe environment, before uploading to the actual spacecraft. 16 November 2017 Future developments 76 Votes: 0
    Testing hardware for ESA’s ground stations at ESOC requires a ‘clean’ radio-frequency environment. This means creating a 3D space through which no radio signals travel – a major challenge in today’s world. 16 November 2017 No signal 88 Votes: 0
    With increasing autonomy and onboard intelligence, the software used to control a mission – either on the satellite in space or in the mission control systems used on ground – has become enormously complex 16 November 2017 Testing software 59 Votes: 0
    Christopher Fabian is Unicef Ventures lead and co-founder of the Unicef Innovation Unit, New York, NY, USA. 16 November 2017 Christopher Fabian 135 Votes: 0
    To ensure a robust capability to monitor, nowcast and forecast potentially dangerous solar events, ESA's SSA programme has initiated the assessment of two possible future space weather missions. 10 November 2017 Future lagrange mission 1032 Votes: 7
    10 November 2017 Missionsanalytiker Michael Khan 84 Votes: 0
    According to ESA's Space Debris Office, in almost 50 years of space activities, more than 5200 launches have placed some 7500 satellites into orbit, of which about 4300 remain in space; only a small fraction − about 1200 − were still operational as of January 2017 08 November 2017 Space debris 157 Votes: 0
    ESA engineers test and debug ground control software and equipment, identifying and solving problems before a current or future mission can be affected. 08 November 2017 Prevention is better than cure 1484 Votes: 52
    Tiangong-1 space station 06 November 2017 Tiangong-1 1403 Votes: 9
    03 November 2017 Dr. Reinhold Bertrand 143 Votes: 1
    Diagram of the Lagrange points associated with the Sun-Earth system. 02 November 2017 Lagrange points 875 Votes: 1
    In Europe's economy today, numerous sectors can potentially be affected by space weather. These range from space-based telecommunications, broadcasting, weather services and navigation, through to power distribution and terrestrial communications, especially at northern latitudes. 01 November 2017 Space weather effects 663 Votes: 4
    The objective of ESA's SSA Space Weather Segment is to provide owners and operators of critical spaceborne and ground-based infrastructure timely and accurate information to enable mitigation of the adverse impacts of space weather. 01 November 2017 SWE Segment Timeline 279 Votes: 0
    On 24 October 2017, Philippe Brunet, Director for Space Policy and Research, Copernicus and defense matters at the European Commission paid a visit to ESA’s ESOC mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany. 25 October 2017 European Commission visit 135 Votes: 0

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