Ariane 6 testing ramps up towards before first mission
Europe’s Ariane 6 launch vehicle is set to debut with a commercial mission in 2020 and industry is carrying out the final tests and starting production of the launch platform
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Details of ESA-NASA bedrest study released
Test subjects ‘enduring’ 60 days in bed to simulate weightlessness
Rig for testing Ariane 6 rocket opens in Germany
Stand P5.2 at DLR Lampoldshausen will be used to test the Ariane 6 upper stage
ExoMars rover’s remote communications tested in Atacama desert
The rover, which is destined for the surface of Mars on 2021 was remotely operated from Oxfordshire in the UK
ESA tests 3D printed rocket thrust chamber
Engineers from the German Aerospace Centre DLR have hot fired a 3D printed, full-scale, rocket thrust chamber assembly for the first time
In depth: Testing parachutes for the next mission to Mars
Novel designs and new testing technologies were developed as part of the European Space Agency’s seven-year project
GKN to develop turbines for Ariane re-usable rocket
Additively manufactured turbines for Prometheus rocket will have just two parts instead of 100