The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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Exploring our Solar System and unlocking the secrets of the Universe
Go to topicProtecting life and infrastructure on Earth and in orbit
Go to topicUsing space to benefit citizens and meet future challenges on Earth
Go to topicMaking space accessible and developing the technologies for the future
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and ""Overview"".
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW: an introduction to the concept of microgravity; the history and future of microgravity research, and its usefulness to mankind.
STARGATE: an overview of astrometry and solar observation; the Eureca (EUropean REtrievable CArrier) mission and the usefulness of studying the solar environment from outside the Earth's atmosphere.
ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTS: The Eureca mission; a detailed look at the technological research it will facilitate.
DEPLOYMENT: A technical, highly graphic look at how Eureca will be launched, operated and monitored.
OVERVIEW: a summary of Eureca - its conception, construction, manufacture, and the microgravity and solar environment experiments it will carry.
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00:01:30:00 Gravity's Rainbow
00:20:15:00 Stargate
00:29:18:00 Engineering Experiments
00:42:23:00 Deployment (The Zero-G Machine)
00:46:36:00 Overview
00:57:48:00 end