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Meet the British brothers competing for a place on Elon Musk’s SpaceX project. The first civilian mission to the Moon is planned for 2023 - but will Max or Charlie Denison-Pender be on board at lift-off?
Artist Max Denison-Pender, 23, and his brother Charlie, 21, an aerospace engineering student at Brunel University pictured at Max’s studio, London, UK. They are vying for a place on Yusaka Meazawa’s rocket around the moon.
The pair have applied, separately, to be among the first ever tourists in space, on board Elon Musk’s SpaceX craft, thereby making history. Max and Charlie are not alone in setting their sights so high. China is launching its own space station next year, NASA has just flown a helicopter on Mars, and the world’s richest entrepreneurs are engaged in what has been dubbed “the billionaire space race”.
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Meet the British brothers competing for a place on Elon Musk’s SpaceX project. The first civilian mission to the Moon is planned for 2023 - but will Max or Charlie Denison-Pender be on board at lift-off?
Artist Max Denison-Pender, 23, and his brother Charlie, 21, an aerospace engineering student at Brunel University pictured at Max’s studio, London, UK. They are vying for a place on Yusaka Meazawa’s rocket around the moon.
The pair have applied, separately, to be among the first ever tourists in space, on board Elon Musk’s SpaceX craft, thereby making history. Max and Charlie are not alone in setting their sights so high. China is launching its own space station next year, NASA has just flown a helicopter on Mars, and the world’s richest entrepreneurs are engaged in what has been dubbed “the billionaire space race”.
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Meet the British brothers competing for a place on Elon Musk’s SpaceX project. The first civilian mission to the Moon is planned for 2023 - but will Max or Charlie Denison-Pender be on board at lift-off?
Artist Max Denison-Pender, 23, and his brother Charlie, 21, an aerospace engineering student at Brunel University pictured at Max’s studio, London, UK. They are vying for a place on Yusaka Meazawa’s rocket around the moon.
The pair have applied, separately, to be among the first ever tourists in space, on board Elon Musk’s SpaceX craft, thereby making history. Max and Charlie are not alone in setting their sights so high. China is launching its own space station next year, NASA has just flown a helicopter on Mars, and the world’s richest entrepreneurs are engaged in what has been dubbed “the billionaire space race”.
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Meet the British brothers competing for a place on Elon Musk’s SpaceX project. The first civilian mission to the Moon is planned for 2023 - but will Max or Charlie Denison-Pender be on board at lift-off?
Artist Max Denison-Pender, 23, and his brother Charlie, 21, an aerospace engineering student at Brunel University pictured at Max’s studio, London, UK. They are vying for a place on Yusaka Meazawa’s rocket around the moon.
The pair have applied, separately, to be among the first ever tourists in space, on board Elon Musk’s SpaceX craft, thereby making history. Max and Charlie are not alone in setting their sights so high. China is launching its own space station next year, NASA has just flown a helicopter on Mars, and the world’s richest entrepreneurs are engaged in what has been dubbed “the billionaire space race”.
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Meet the British brothers competing for a place on Elon Musk’s SpaceX project. The first civilian mission to the Moon is planned for 2023 - but will Max or Charlie Denison-Pender be on board at lift-off?
Artist Max Denison-Pender, 23, and his brother Charlie, 21, an aerospace engineering student at Brunel University pictured at Max’s studio, London, UK. They are vying for a place on Yusaka Meazawa’s rocket around the moon.
The pair have applied, separately, to be among the first ever tourists in space, on board Elon Musk’s SpaceX craft, thereby making history. Max and Charlie are not alone in setting their sights so high. China is launching its own space station next year, NASA has just flown a helicopter on Mars, and the world’s richest entrepreneurs are engaged in what has been dubbed “the billionaire space race”.
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Meet the British brothers competing for a place on Elon Musk’s SpaceX project. The first civilian mission to the Moon is planned for 2023 - but will Max or Charlie Denison-Pender be on board at lift-off?
Artist Max Denison-Pender, 23, and his brother Charlie, 21, an aerospace engineering student at Brunel University pictured at Max’s studio, London, UK. They are vying for a place on Yusaka Meazawa’s rocket around the moon.
The pair have applied, separately, to be among the first ever tourists in space, on board Elon Musk’s SpaceX craft, thereby making history. Max and Charlie are not alone in setting their sights so high. China is launching its own space station next year, NASA has just flown a helicopter on Mars, and the world’s richest entrepreneurs are engaged in what has been dubbed “the billionaire space race”.
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Space Coast, Florida
Space Coast, Florida.
On 22 April 2021, on Earth Day, Thomas Pesquet is planned to return to the International Space Station for his second mission, Alpha. Ahead of his launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Cape Canaveral, USA, in a region known as the Space Coast.
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Cape Canaveral is a cape and city in Brevard County, in east-central Florida. The cape is separated from the mainland by the Banana River, Merritt Island and the Indian River from east to west.
The cape area is part of the region known as the Space Coast, and is home to the Kennedy Space Center Ð including the space shuttle landing facility, a visitorÕs centre, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and a space vehicle assembly building. Launch Complex 39A, visible along the coast, is where the Saturn V rocket carrying Apollo 11 began its voyage to the moon in 1969, carrying Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin ÔBuzzÕ Aldrin.
Before the space programme was launched, Cape Canaveral was a stretch of barren, sandy scrubland. The cape was chosen for rocket launches owing to its close proximity to the equator. As the linear velocity of EarthÕs surface is greatest towards the equator, the southerly location of the cape allows for rockets to take advantage of this by launching eastward Ð in the same direction as EarthÕs rotation.
The space centre is included in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, visible in the top of the image, which occupies more than 550 sq km of estuaries and marshes. It preserves the habitat of around 1000 plant and 500 wildlife species, included several endangered species. The city of Cape Canaveral lies just south of the space centre and around 8 km north of Cocoa Beach (visible in the bottom of the image).
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SpaceX Crew-2
SpaceX Crew-2 Launch Simulation. Location: SpaceX headquaqrters, Rocket Road, Hawthorne, California. Crew-2 in gear.
As ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet gets closer to launch, it's time to meet the crew. In the words of Thomas: "I don't mean to show off but this crew might have the most combined experience in spaceflight history!!!! (I'm sure the internet will take on the task to do the maths), and more importantly they're the best teammates ever. We had the chance to train in our shiny new spacesuits recently in Hawthorne where SpaceX is based, and we snapped a few pictures. Let me introduce them (and feel free to follow them on social media too). A special shoutout to the awesome PR and media team at SpaceX and Ashish Sharma the incredibly talented photographer who takes most of the cool SpaceX pictures you see all over the internet."Credit: ESA / eyevine
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Thomas back in Cologne
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet talks to the press after he arrives in Cologne, Germany, on 9 November 2021 following his return from the International Space Station on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour.
The capsule transporting Crew-2 autonomously undocked from the International Space Station and after a series of burns, entered Earth’s atmosphere and deployed parachutes for a soft water-landing. Thomas and crew splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on 9 November 2021 at 03:33 GMT (04:33 CET)
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Copernicus Sentinel-6 lifts off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
Copernicus Sentinel-6 lifts off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The first Copernicus Sentinel-6 satellite launched on 21 November 2020 from the Space Launch Complex 4 East at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, US. Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is the first ESA-developed satellite to be given a ride into space on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.Credit: ESA / eyevine
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Sea-level monitoring satellite lifts off
Sea-level monitoring satellite lifts off. The Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite was launched on 21 November 2020 from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, US.
This latest Copernicus satellite will continue the long-term record of reference measurements, extending the record of sea-level height into a fourth decade. Since sea-level rise is a key indicator of climate change, accurately monitoring the changing height of the sea surface over decades is essential for climate science, for policy-making and, ultimately, for protecting the lives of those in vulnerable low-lying areas.Credit: ESA / eyevine
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Mission control ready for Sentinel liftoff
Mission control ready for Sentinel liftoff.
After months practising the critical ÔLaunch and Early Orbit PhaseÕ with a simulated Sentinel-6 spacecraft, the control team at ESAÕs Operations Centre are ready for liftoff with the real thing.
The Earth observation spacecraft from the EUÕs Copernicus programme will launch on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket at 17:17 GMT (18:17 CET) from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, US, on Saturday, 21 November.
Once ESAÕs mission control has guided the Sentinel through the critical early phase, configuring the spacecraft and performing two orbit manoeuvres to get it close to its final orbit, EUMETSAT Ð EuropeÕs weather satellite organisation Ð will then complete the final Ôorbit acquisitionÕ and take on responsibility for commissioning, routine operations and distribution of the missionÕs vital data.
This Launch and Early Orbit Phase, or LEOP, is the most risky period in a spacecraftÕs life. It's the period in which the new spacecraft begins using its solar arrays for power, wakes up to test its core functioning and manoeuvres into the correct path, all the while at its most vulnerable to the hazards of space.
The target orbit for the new mission is a low-Earth orbit at about 1300 km altitude, inclined about 66 degrees with respect to the equator. This allows the satellite to map up to 95% of EarthÕs ice-free ocean every 10 days. Timing here is extremely important, as Sentinel-6 needs to fly in tandem with the Jason 3 spacecraft it is replacing, falling into position behind it with a separation of just 30 seconds, or about 230 kilometres.
This is why simulations and dress rehearsals are so important Ð they give the team the chance to go through seamless scenarios as well as problem-solve and brainstorm during ones in which something goes wrong. This picture was taken during the Sentinel-6 dress rehearsal on 12 November, and shows Ground Operations Manager Brett Durret Ôon consoleÕ in ESAÕs Main Control Room
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Vega lifts off
Vega lifts off.
On 2 September 2020, Vega flight VV16 lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana to progressively deliver 53 light satellites into Sun-synchronous orbits at 515 km and 530 km altitude on a mission lasting 124 minutes.
This proof-of-concept flight demonstrates and validates a new rideshare launch service for light satellites using the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) dispenser developed by ESA. The SSMS is light and has a modular design that can be configured to meet the requirements of the mission, securing anything from the smallest 1 kg CubeSats up to 500 kg minisatellites.
There were 21 customers sharing this launch.
ESA has contributed to the development of four payloads on board – the 113 kg ESAIL microsatellite and three CubeSats: Simba, Picasso and FSSCat which carries pioneering AI technology named ?-sat-1.Credit: ESA / eyevine
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Ariane 5 liftoff
Ariane 5 liftoff. On 15 August 2020, Ariane 5 flight VA253 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites Galaxy-30 and BSAT-4B, and the Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-2), into their planned transfer orbits.
Also on this flight, there were four notable technical modifications to Ariane 5: an onboard autonomous tracking kit called Kassav, vented nose cone from RUAG in Switzerland and new materials for a lighter upper stage and vehicle equipment bay (VEB) – the ‘brain’ of the launch vehicle.
These modifications will continue to be used on all Ariane 5 flights and also incorporated in the upcoming Ariane 6.
Flight VA253 was the 109th Ariane 5 mission.Credit: ESA / eyevine
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Ariane 5 liftoff
Ariane 5 liftoff.
On 15 August 2020, Ariane 5 flight VA253 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites Galaxy-30 and BSAT-4B, and the Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-2), into their planned transfer orbits.
Also on this flight, there were four notable technical modifications to Ariane 5: an onboard autonomous tracking kit called Kassav, vented nose cone from RUAG in Switzerland and new materials for a lighter upper stage and vehicle equipment bay (VEB) – the ‘brain’ of the launch vehicle.
These modifications will continue to be used on all Ariane 5 flights and also incorporated in the upcoming Ariane 6.
Flight VA253 was the 109th Ariane 5 mission.Credit: ESA / eyevine
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Ariane 5 liftoff
Ariane 5 liftoff.
VA253 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites Galaxy-30 and BSAT-4B, and the Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-2), into their planned transfer orbits.
Also on this flight, there were four notable technical modifications to Ariane 5: an onboard autonomous tracking kit called Kassav, vented nose cone from RUAG in Switzerland and new materials for a lighter upper stage and vehicle equipment bay (VEB) – the ‘brain’ of the launch vehicle.
These modifications will continue to be used on all Ariane 5 flights and also incorporated in the upcoming Ariane 6.
Flight VA253 was the 109th Ariane 5 mission.
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SpaceX Crew Dragon training
SpaceX Crew Dragon training.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will be the first European astronaut to fly to the International Space Station on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon.
Here he is learning the systems ahead of his second space mission, Alpha, which is scheduled for launch in spring 2021. Credit: ESA / eyevine
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SpaceX Crew-2
SpaceX Crew-2 & Backup with ESA astronauts Thomas Pesquet & Matthias Maurer and NASA astronaut Megan Behnken during Emergency Vehicle Familiarization. Photo Date: June 23, 2020. Location: Bldg. 9NW, ISS Mockups. Photographer: Robert MarkowitzCredit: ESA / eyevine
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Ariane 5’s second launch of 2020
On 18 February 2020, Ariane 5 flight VA252 lifted off from EuropeÕs Spaceport in French Guiana and delivered JCSAT-17 and Geo-Kompsat-2B, into their planned transfer orbits.Credit: ESA / eyevine
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ESA’s new Sun exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter
ESA’s new Sun exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter launched atop the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020. An ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, Solar Orbiter will look at some of the never-before-seen regions of the Sun, such as the poles, and attempt to shed more light on the origins of solar wind, which can knock out power grids on the ground and disrupt operations of satellites orbiting the Earth. The spacecraft will take advantage of the gravitational pull of Venus to adjust its orbit to obtain unprecedented views of the solar surface.Credit: ESA / eyevine
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Solar Orbiter liftoff
ESA’s new Sun exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter launched atop the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020. An ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, Solar Orbiter will look at some of the never-before-seen regions of the Sun, such as the poles, and attempt to shed more light on the origins of solar wind, which can knock out power grids on the ground and disrupt operations of satellites orbiting the Earth. The spacecraft will take advantage of the gravitational pull of Venus to adjust its orbit to obtain unprecedented views of the solar surface.Credit: ESA / eyevine
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Prince Harry launching Khumbu Challenge 09, HM Naval Base Devonport, Plymouth, Britain - 04 Nov 2008
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Prince Harry launching Khumbu Challenge 09, HM Naval Base Devonport, Plymouth, Britain - 04 Nov 2008
Today Prince Harry has helped to launch an expedition to Mount Everest for wounded members of the Armed Forces. Exercise Khumbu Challenge will involve five teams of people who have been drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Those taking part will all have suffered, to varying degrees, injury or trauma in Iraq or Afghanistan. According to the Ministry of Defence places will be offered to individuals injured in conflict to give them an opportunity to "enhance their rehabilitation programmes". In total, around 90 personnel will undertake various challenges, including climbs around Everest, in the Khumbu region of Nepal in October and November next year. Launching the challenge today at Devonport Naval Base in Plymouth Prince Harry watched wounded service personnel on a climbing wall and was shown a display about the challenge.
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Ariane 5 soars to space
Ariane 5 soars to space.
On 26 November 2019, Ariane 5 lifted off from EuropeÕs Spaceport in French Guiana and delivered two telecom satellites, TIBA-1 and Inmarsat-GX5, into their planned orbits.
Get close to Ariane 5's two solid rocket boosters and the Vulcain 2 engine providing the thrust at liftoff on flight VA250. Thermal insulation panels fall away in the foreground.
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Connecting the Webb
Connecting the Webb. Reaching a major milestone, engineers have successfully connected the two halves of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope for the first time at Northrop GrummanÕs facilities in Redondo Beach, California. Once it reaches space, Webb will explore the cosmos using infrared light, from planets and moons within our Solar System to the most ancient and distant galaxies.
To combine both halves of Webb, engineers carefully lifted the telescope (which includes the mirrors and science instruments) above the already-combined sunshield and spacecraft using a crane. Team members slowly guided the telescope into place, ensuring that all primary points of contact were perfectly aligned and seated properly. The observatory has been mechanically connected; next steps will be to electrically connect the halves, and then test the electrical connections.
Later, engineers will fully deploy the intricate five-layer sunshield, which is designed to keep Webb's mirrors and scientific instruments cold by blocking infrared light from the Earth, Moon and Sun. The ability of the sunshield to deploy to its correct shape is critical to mission success.
Webb is scheduled for launch on a European Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in March 2021.
The James Webb Space Telescope is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency. As part of its contribution to the project, ESA provides the NIRSpec instrument, the Optical Bench Assembly of the MIRI instrument, the Ariane 5 launcher, and staff to support mission operations at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, USA.Credit: ESA / eyevine
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AppleÕs press day for ÒThe Morning ShowÓ, Los Angeles, USA - 13 October 2019
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EXCLUSIVE - Karen Pittman and Nestor Carbonell at AppleÕs press day for ÒThe Morning ShowÓ a new drama premiering on Apple TV+, the first all-original video subscription service, launching November 1 on the Apple TV app.
AppleÕs press day for ÒThe Morning ShowÓ, Los Angeles, USA - 13 October 2019
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AppleÕs press day for ÒThe Morning ShowÓ, Los Angeles, USA - 13 October 2019
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EXCLUSIVE - Gugu Mbatha-Raw at AppleÕs press day for ÒThe Morning ShowÓ a new drama premiering on Apple TV+, the first all-original video subscription service, launching November 1 on the Apple TV app.
AppleÕs press day for ÒThe Morning ShowÓ, Los Angeles, USA - 13 October 2019
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Ariane 5 launchers with science missions onboard.
Ariane 5 launchers with science missions onboard.
If it wasnÕt for launch capabilities we would never have delved deep into the echo of the Big Bang nor lived out the adventures of Rosetta and Philae at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Nor would we have captured some of the UniverseÕs most energetic phenomena, or be on our way to the innermost planet of the Solar System. Some of ESAÕs biggest science missions only got off the ground Ð literally Ð thanks to the mighty Ariane 5, one of the most reliable launchers that gives access to space from EuropeÕs Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
ESA has been using the Ariane family of launch vehicles right back since Ariane 1, which launched the comet-chaser Giotto, ESAÕs first deep space mission, in 1985. Later, the astrometry satellite Hipparcos rode into space on an Ariane 4 in 1989 and the Infrared Space Observatory launched in 1995.
One of the first Ariane 5 flights took XMM-Newton into space twenty years ago, in December 1999 (leftmost image). The X-ray space observatory is an impressive workhorse, enabling ground-breaking discoveries on a range of cosmic mysteries from enigmatic black holes to the evolution of galaxies across the Universe.
SMART-1, EuropeÕs first mission to the Moon, got its ride to space in 2003 (second image from left). It was used to test solar electric propulsion and other technologies, while performing scientific observations of the Moon. BepiColombo launched in 2018 (far right) on the 101st Ariane 5 launch; it is using electric propulsion, in combination with planetary gravity assists, to reach Mercury.
In between, Rosetta began its ten year journey through the Solar System starting with a boost into space on an Ariane 5 (middle image), and in 2009 Herschel and Planck shared a ride on the same launcher (second from right) from which they would both proceed to the second Lagrange point, L2, 1.5 million km from Earth in the opposite direction to the Sun, to reveal the Universe in new
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Ariane 6
First half-shell of Ariane 6 fairing.
With the help of ESA, RUAG Space developed an out-of-autoclave process where the carbon-fibre shells of the rocket fairing are cured in an industrial oven instead of an autoclave. It reduces cost and saves time.
The first fairing manufactured in this way was flown on Ariane 5, flight VA238 on 28 June 2017. Vega began using the new type of fairing on 1 August 2017.
Ariane 6 and Vega?C fairings will also be produced in the same way. The first half-shell of Ariane 6 (pictured) has been made.
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Ariane 6
CSG - ELA-4 construction site for Ariane 6.
The ELA-4 (French: l'Ensemble de Lancement Ariane 4) launch site is currently undergoing construction and is intended as the future launch site for the Ariane 6 launch vehicle.
Both the launch pad itself and the BAL (Fench: B‰timent dÕAssemblage Lanceur) - the launcher assembly building are being worked on for use with Ariane 6.
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Ariane 6
Ariane 6 tank for the core stage.
An ArianeGroup facility in Les Mureaux, France, hosts the largest friction stir welding machines in Europe for producing the Ariane 6 cryogenic tanks for Ariane 6Õs core stage.
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Hot firing of P120C solid rocket motor for Vega-C. On 28 January 2019, the first qualification model of the P120C solid-propellant motor, in the configuration for Vega-C, was static fired on the test stand at EuropeÕs Spaceport in French Guiana.
During a burn time of 135 seconds, the P120C delivered a maximum thrust of 4650 kN. No anomalies were seen and the performance met expectations.Credit: ESA / eyevine
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RNLI lifeboat, a Shannon Class named 'Nora Stachura' on her launch & recovery system vehicle preparing for launching from St Ives harbour.
St Ives lifeboat, St Ives, Cornwall, UK - 25 Nov 2018
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Ariane 5 V243 100th launch. Ariane 5 V243 ascends from the European Spaceport’s ELA-3 launch zone on its 100th flight, carrying a dual payload of the Horizons 3e and Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 telecommunications satellites, 25 September 2018Credit: ESA / eyevine
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BepiColombo stack. The BepiColombo spacecraft ‘stack’ is complete. ESA’s Mercury Transfer Module sits at the bottom, its two 15 m-long solar arrays folded for launch. It will use a combination of solar electric propulsion, chemical propulsion, and nine gravity assist flybys over seven years to deliver the two science orbiters that sit above, to Mercury.
In the middle of the stack is ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter, its 3.7 m wide radiator facing the viewer. The three red oval shapes indicate startrackers, which will be used for navigation.
Most science instruments are mounted on the side of the spacecraft that will point at Mercury – the side clamped against the transfer module during cruise – but some instruments and sensors are located at the main radiator, and the magnetometer boom is folded above.
On top is JAXA’s eight-sided Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter. The sunshield that will protect the module during the cruise phase will be added about a week before launch.
Eight of the 11 instrument suites onboard the Mercury Planetary Orbiter and three out of five on the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter can operate or partially operate during the cruise phase, and will take measurements during the two flybys of Venus, for example. Once at Mercury, the two orbiters will operate from different orbits to provide the most detailed study of the innermost planet date, from its interior to surface features, to its interaction with the solar wind.
The complete spacecraft stack will be attached to the launch vehicle and sealed inside the fairing in the final week before launch. Roll-out of the Ariane 5 to the launch pad is anticipated about two days before launch.
Launch is currently scheduled for 19 October 22:45 GFT local time, or 01:45 GMT / 03:45 CEST on 20 October. It will be the 101st launch of an Ariane 5.
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Cheops inside LEAF chamber.
ESA’s exoplanet-surveying Cheops satellite, with its distinctive main telescope instrument, seen being prepared for testing within ESA’s Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF) at the Agency’s ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands this month. LEAF can subject satellites to the same volume of noise a launcher produces as it takes off and flies through the atmosphere. One wall of the chamber – which stands 11 m wide by 9 m deep and 16.4 m high – incorporates a set of enormous sound horns. Nitrogen shot through the horns can produce a range of noise up to more than 154 decibels, like standing close to multiple jets taking off. ESA’s Cheops satellite will measure the sizes of known exoplanets by detecting tiny fluctuations in the light of their parent stars. Cheops, or ‘CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite’, combines a state-of-the-art scientific performance with a compact design – 1.5 m by 1.4 m by 1.5 m in size, it weighs in at about 300 kg fully fuelled – allowing it to be flown as a secondary passenger on a Soyuz launcher inside its ASAP-S adapter. A test version of Cheops – its ‘structural qualification model’ plus ‘instrument structural and thermal model’ – underwent previous LEAF testing back in November 2015. Once its acoustic testing was complete this final Cheops ‘flight model’ went on to electromagnetic compatibility testing in ESA’s Maxwell facility. Once its test campaign is complete, the satellite is scheduled for launch readiness at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana early next year. Credit: ESA / eyevine
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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NEWS - Pakistan: Einweihung der Orange Line Metro in Lahore
May 16, 2018 - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan - Newly built Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) completes its second test run launched from Islam Park Railway Station in Lahore. Pakistan's Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on May 16 inaugurated the second test -run of Lahore's much-awaited Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT). The metro train will travel a distance of some 11 kilometres. Overall, 26 stations have been built on a 27.12-kilometre-long track which will accommodate around 0.25 million passengers daily (FOTO: DUKAS/ZUMA)
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