The European Space Agency and Astrium today signed a 195 million contract to provide the first Sentinel-2 earth observation satellite, devoted to monitoring the land environment, as part of the European GMES programme. As prime contractor, Astrium is responsible for the design, development an...
ESA Tests Mini Gyro Sensor For Sentinel 3 The European Space Agency (ESA) is testing a miniature solid-state gyro sensor that it says will be the smallest ever flown in space. The sugar cube-sized gyro uses microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), a technology already widely used in the automobile...
Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites ESA and Eurockot today signed contracts for launching two ESA satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-3A will fly in 2013 on Rockot vehicles from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia for Europe's GMES programme. The contract signing by Matthias Oehm...