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ECSAT celebrates its 10th anniversary

ECSAT celebrates its 10th anniversary

The European Centre for Space Applications and Communications (ECSAT) celebrates a decade of boosting UK prosperity, understanding the universe, and protecting both the planet and outer space. 

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Odysseus competition open to young UK scientists

Posted by: Tatiana, Posted on: 23 June 2015 - Categories: Education

Young scientists from the UK are invited to compete in Odysseus, an exciting competition exploring the mysteries and challenges of space.

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First woman in space: image of the week

Posted by: Tatiana, Posted on: 19 June 2015 - Categories: Image of the week, Space exploration

This week (16 June 2015) celebrated the anniversary of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963.

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Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Field: image of the week

Posted by: Tatiana, Posted on: 12 June 2015 - Categories: Image of the week, Space exploration, Space science

This Planck image shows the complicated link between the magnetic field of our galaxy and its interstellar dust.

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50 Years of spacewalks: image of the week

Posted by: Tatiana, Posted on: 5 June 2015 - Categories: Earth observation, Image of the week, Space exploration

This week (3 June 2015) is the 50th anniversary of the first NASA spacewalk. Edward H. White II floated for more than 20 minutes in the microgravity of space on the Gemini IV mission in 1965. At the end of …

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A year in space for Sentinel-1A: image of the week

Posted by: Tatiana, Posted on: 29 May 2015 - Categories: Earth from space, Earth observation, Image of the week
Irkutsk and Lake Baikal

An image over Russia’s Siberia region was released on the anniversary of Sentinel-1A’s orbit.

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Plants in space: success at the Chelsea Flower Show

Posted by: Tatiana, Posted on: 29 May 2015 - Categories: Education, Events, Principia

Last week, we celebrated the launch of Rocket Science; an educational project sending salad seeds to space and back. Give your local school the opportunity to grow these 'space seeds' in a national science experiment.

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Into gardening? We're at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show!

Posted by: Tatiana, Posted on: 15 May 2015 - Categories: Education, Events

We can't wait to exhibit at the RHS Chelsea Flower show next week and we want you to tell us which of the following plants you would take to space.

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Happy Birthday Hubble!

Posted by: Tatiana, Posted on: 24 April 2015 - Categories: Space exploration

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched 24th April 1990 and has beamed thousands of images back to Earth, unveiling many mysteries of astronomy.

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How to 'Make That Call': #TalkToTim on the ISS

Posted by: Libby Jackson, Posted on: 27 March 2015 - Categories: Education, Principia

Tim Peake has recently issued the challenge to schools and other organisations to ‘Make That Call’ to him in space, using the amateur radio on board the ISS. But what is this amateur radio, and how does it work?

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Fast ice: image of the week

Posted by: Tatiana, Posted on: 26 March 2015 - Categories: Earth from space, Earth observation, Image of the week

This combined image of scans taken by Sentinel-1A’s radar shows the fast-moving Pine Island glacier, which flowed about 100 m in less than 2 weeks (in pink). Light blue represents stable ice on either side of the stream. Pine Island …

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