The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites you to submit proposals for ESA’s navigation-focused NAVISP research programme. The deadline for this year’s workplan is 31 March 2022.
For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-metre asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon’s attempt to scupper observations, the asteroid is now known to be entirely safe.
On 1 March 2022, Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, President of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), signed on behalf of Romania, the Artemis Accords, a set of statements initiated by NASA to establish common principles, guidelines, and best practices applicable to the entire lunar exploration programme.
In an announcement made public on 28 February, the European Space Agency (ESA) made the following statement: “We deplore the human casualties and tragic consequences of the war in Ukraine. We are giving absolute priority to taking proper decisions, not only for the sake of our workforce involved in the programmes, but in full respect of our European values, which have always fundamentally shaped our approach to international cooperation.
ESA's OPS-SAT is a 30-cm CubeSat which packs a powerful onboard computer and an array of instruments that make it the ideal laboratory for testing innovative new technologies in space.