The programme includes several spacecraft elements to be sent to Mars on two launches. The ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and an ESA-built EDM stationary lander called 'Schiaparelli' will be launched in March 2016. The TGO will deliver the stationary lander and then... Continue reading
Solar Orbiter will be used to examine how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the vast bubble of charged particles blown by the solar wind into the interstellar medium. The spacecraft will combine in situ and remote sensing observations to gain new information about... Continue reading
Sentinel-3 carries a series of cutting-edge instruments for systematic measurements of Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere. Over oceans, Sentinel-3 measures the temperature, colour and height of the sea surface as well as the thickness of sea ice. These measurements will be... Continue reading
The science goals of this mission include studying the dynamics of hot gas in galaxy clusters, the accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes at the cores of distant galaxies, and the acceleration of cosmic-ray particles up to very high energies. Continue reading
ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy and to maintain fusion for long periods of time. It will also be the first fusion device to test the integrated technologies, materials, and physics regimes necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based... Continue reading
ALTER TECHNOLOGY will execute different tasks, such as the detailed definition of the space radiation engineering activities to be implemented for JUICE and aimed at reducing (to the maximum extent feasible) total ionizing dose levels for platform equipment and instruments; the... Continue reading
Britespace Specific projects Carbon and Climate Observation of Planet Earth: developing laser sources for the detection of greenhouse gases in future earth observation missions Continue reading
