ESOC 1967: The European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) was founded in 1962. The facility now known as the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) had been established in the autumn of 1963 as the European Space Data Analysis Centre (ESDAC) in Darmstadt, Germany. The facilities initially housed large mainframe computers for the analysis and study of … Dowiedz się więcej
Allegiant (NASDAQ: ALGT) is proud to announce a new partnership with Communities In Schools of Nevada to provide support to struggling and disadvantaged youth in the Clark County School District. Communities In Schools is the nation’s leading dropout prevention organization, providing school kids with the necessary tools to stay in school and achieve in life. … Dowiedz się więcej
In the months January to August of 2013, airberlin was able to increase fleet capacity utilization to 85.36 percent, i.e. by 2.2 percentage points in yearly comparison, and welcomed a total of more than 21.386 million passengers on board. The available seat kilometers totaled 38.597 billion and the revenue passenger kilometers amounted to 32.948 billion. … Dowiedz się więcej
On Friday, Sept. 6, NASA is scheduled to launch a small satellite mission, called the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), which will orbit the moon to gather detailed information about its atmosphere and the role of dust in the lunar sky. LADEE is the first spacecraft designed, developed, built, integrated and tested at … Dowiedz się więcej
NASA is launching an official Instagram profile that will take its fans on an out-of-this-world journey through images of Earth and beyond. „We’re constantly looking to expand our social media portfolio to include tools that will best tell NASA’s story of exploration and discovery,” said NASA Press Secretary Lauren Worley. „Instagram has a passionate following … Dowiedz się więcej
An engineering copy of ESA’s Gaia satellite in Toulouse was linked to the mission control system at ESOC in Germany this week, enabling flight controllers to send commands and receive data just as they will once the actual satellite is in orbit. The System Validation Test (SVT) on 5–6 September was the final in a … Dowiedz się więcej