Call for media: ESA to share initial figures from astronaut selection
The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites media representatives to attend a virtual press event on Wednesday, 23 June 2021, to learn more about applications to ESA’s astronaut selection. Vacancies for the positions of astronaut and astronaut (with a physical disability) will close on 18 June 2021, after a two-and-a-half-month-long application period.
Arctic coastal sea ice thinning twice as fast than thought
Research based on ice-thickness data from ESA’s CryoSat and Envisat missions along with a new model of snow has revealed that sea ice in the coastal regions of the Arctic may be thinning twice as fast as thought.
Voyage 2050 sets sail: ESA chooses future science mission themes
ESA’s large-class science missions for the timeframe 2035-2050 will focus on moons of the giant Solar System planets, temperate exoplanets or the galactic ecosystem, and new physical probes of the early Universe.
Solar Orbiter images first coronal mass ejections
Solar Orbiter launched on 10 February 2020 and is currently in cruise phase ahead of the main science mission, which begins November this year. While the four in situ instruments have been on for much of the time since launch, collecting science data on the space environment in the vicinity of the spacecraft, the operation of the six remote sensing instruments during cruise phase is focused primarily on instrument calibration, and they are only active during dedicated checkout windows and specific campaigns.
The European Space Education Resource Office — ESERO Romania uses the fascination of space to encourage teaching and learning STEM subjects.
