Part two of our #ESAarchives series on 'how a make a new space organisation' looks at the day it all happened – come back to 30 May 1975 and discover exactly how it all came together to make @ESA!
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How do you make a new space organisation?
Find out with the #ESAarchives in a special two-part series looking at the people and processes that created ESA in 1975, as we get ready for fifty years of ESA next year! Part one starts with drafting a Convention...
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Our #ESAarchives series on ESRO’s Directors General concludes this month with Alexander Hocker, DG from 1971 to 1974. December's #ObjectOfTheMonth tells the story of a framed portrait and takes us to the transition from ESRO to ESA, ready for ESA’s 50th anniversary next year! #Roadto1975 #60yearsELDOandESRO
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See also Arturo Russo's 'The early development of the Telecommunications Satellite Programme in ESRO (1965-1971)' ESA HSR-09, 1993
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This week, #ESAarchives are investigating the opening chapter in the story of ESA research in telecommunications – we’ve just opened a new collection of material from the first ESRO telecommunications studies from 1967-72 👇
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#ESAarchives are issuing an appeal for donations! We’re looking for material from ESA’s predecessors COPERS, ELDO and ESRO, who operated throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, prior to the creation of ESA in 1975. Can you help us reconstruct their legacy?
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Can you believe it has been 10 years since we landed on a comet?
On 12 November 2014, after a ten-year journey through the Solar System and over 500 million kilometres from home, our Rosetta mission’s lander Philae made history by touching down on a comet for the first time.
We're celebrating this extraordinary feat by taking a look back over the mission's highlights ➡️ https://t.co/qgtGStyk4G
(📽️ESA/@landru79)
Welcome to our week-long replay of #CometLandingRelived coverage as we recall @ESA_Rosetta & @philae2014’s dramatic feat of space exploration ten years ago this week, with all of its unexpected twists and turns...or should that be bounces…?!
Let’s pick up the story the night before landing, with four critical “Go/No-Go” moments to complete before @ESA_Rosetta gets the green light to release lander @Philae2014 towards #Comet67P /Churyumov-Gerasimenko 1/