Harry Elliot CBE. 28 June 1920 — 5 July 2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 97-127
Author(s):  
David Southwood
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Space Science ◽  
Space Research ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
International Geophysical Year ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level

Harry Elliot, a pioneer of British space science and known worldwide for his work on cosmic rays, passed away in July 2009. Coming from a farming family in the Anglo-Scottish borders, he entered Manchester University at the outbreak of war. After service in the Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force, he returned to Manchester to work with Patrick Blackett on the origin of primary cosmic rays, a scientific pursuit he followed for the rest of his career. In 1954 he moved with Blackett to Imperial College. After playing an important part in the International Geophysical Year, the dawn of the space age gave him the opportunity to be the originator of one of the major British space research groups. Subsequently, through his long-standing service at high level in the UK Science Research Council, the European Space Research Organisation and the European Space Agency, he played an important part in steering the development of British astronomical facilities as well as the evolution of European space science.

The Royal Society's formative role in UK space research

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Pounds
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Space Science ◽  
Space Research ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Uk

Before the formation of the Science Research Council (SRC) in 1965, the Royal Society played the key role, as both advocate and adviser to relevant government departments, in establishing the foundations of UK Space Research. The Society's Gassiot Committee was instrumental in the creation of a competitive university space research community, preparing the way for the active involvement of the UK in the NASA space science programme, and a leading role in Europe as founding members of the European Space Research Organisation, a forerunner of the European Space Agency. Although the Royal Society's formal responsibilities ended with the creation of the SRC, strong representation of Fellows within the early SRC structure helped ensure the continuity and growing international impact of UK space science. Although investment in space research in the UK subsequently fell well below that of other G7 nations (in GDP terms), the legacy of the efforts of the Royal Society can be found in the continuing high reputation of UK space science and in a strong UK space industry, which has a current annual turnover of £6 billion and a workforce of some 68 000.

Towards a cooperation between the arts, space science research and the European Space Agency – Preliminary findings of the ESA Topical Team Arts and Sciences (ETTAS)

2014 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-191
Author(s):  
Sarah Jane Pell ◽  
Anna Barbara Imhof ◽  
Christian Waldvogel ◽  
J. Michelle Kotler ◽  
Marko Peljhan
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Space Science ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
The Arts

scholarly journals Helioseismology from space, the SOHO project

1988 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 545-548
Author(s):  
V. Domingo
Keyword(s):  
Solar Wind ◽  
Solar Corona ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Heliospheric Observatory ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Cluster A ◽  
Physics Programme

As a cornerstone of its long term plan for space science research, the European Space Agency (ESA) is developing the Solar Terrestrial Physics Programme that consists of two parts: one, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) for the study of the solar internal structure and the physics of the solar corona and the solar wind, and another, CLUSTER, a series of four spacecraft flying in formation to study small scale plasma phenomena in several regions of the magnetosphere and in the near Earth solar wind. The feasibility of the missions was demonstrated in Phase A studies carried out by industrial consortia under the supervision of ESA (1,2). According to the current plans an announcement of opportunity calling for instrument proposals will be issued by ESA during the first quarter of 1987. It is foreseen that the spacecraft will be launched by the end of 1994.

Hermann Bondi. 1 November 1919 — 10 September 2005

2007 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. W. Roxburgh
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
State Theory ◽  
Director General ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Applied Mathematician ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
Scientific Adviser ◽  
Foundational Work ◽  
The Uk

Hermann Bondi was an applied mathematician of distinction who will be remembered by fellow scientists for his outstanding contributions to astronomy, cosmology and General Relativity, and particularly for his pioneering contributions to our understanding of gravitational waves, his foundational work on accretion, and as co–creator with Tommy Gold and Fred Hoyle of the steady state theory of cosmology. But Hermann had an equally important second career in scientific administration: advising the UK Government on the Thames Barrier, as Director General of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO; now the European Space Agency (ESA)), as Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on Defence and then on Energy, as Chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and finally as Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. He was knighted in 1973. He continued his research on gravitational radiation throughout his administrative career and published his 16th paper in the series on gravitational waves in 2004. Hermann will be remembered not only for his contributions to science and administration but also for his outstanding communication skills and as a charismatic, warm, and stimulating person.

III. Metallurgy: The proposed French metallurgy programme for Spacelab

1978 ◽  
Vol 361 (1705) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Growth ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Zero Gravity ◽  
Industrial Community ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Space Experiments ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

The call for ideas for the first Spacelab payload issued from the European Space Agency (E.S.A.) obtained in France a fairly high level of success from the government agencies but almost no answers from the industrial community. This situation, which arose despite knowledge of some early but very promising results of the first space experiments, seems to be correlated with the absence of any guarantee about the future Law of Space, and consequently has orientated the French metallurgy experiments to more academic and less applied speculations. We shall describe the actions of the French Space Agency (C.N.E.S.) to decide which experiments would be officially supported by C.N.E.S. if accepted by E.S.A. In the particular field of metallurgy, six proposals were so selected which have been proposed to E.S.A. for the first Spacelab payload. We shall present the arguments which defended those proposals and as a function of the preliminary analysis of some similar U.S. experiments we shall try to detect some of the possible difficulties in performing them and to foresee the main results which we expect. Special emphasis will be laid on the thermodiffusion and nucleation experiments, the study of which is basic for many crystal growth or metallurgy experiments in a zero-gravity environment.

Benefits of Using Innovative Tools for Diagnostics and Planning in ESA Mission Operations

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1159-1166
Author(s):  
Alessandro Donati ◽  
◽  
Jose Antonio Martinez-Heras ◽  
Nicola Policella
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Mission Planning ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Planning And Scheduling ◽  
Space Operations ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Level Information ◽  
High Level ◽  
Mission Operations ◽  
Operational Impact

Future European Space Agency (ESA) space missions are demanding and driving new operations concepts for increased on-board autonomy, for flexible and robust planning and scheduling services, and for ground capabilities to agglomerate and process a huge amount of downlinked data (e.g., tens of thousands of telemetry parameters) to extract high-level information and knowledge. Mission control will have to cope with maintaining and programming challenging missions such as interplanetary probes, complex scientific missions, and a constellation of earth-observation missions. The process of innovation in these areas is already progressing at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) of the ESA, and this paper highlights specific achievements and trends in the area of spacecraft diagnosis and mission planning and scheduling by making use of a variety of technologies and techniques. The discussion then focuses on the tools’ operational impact and on the expected trends in the future.

The Leicester Space Centre

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
K.J.R. Edwards ◽  
K.A. Pounds
Keyword(s):  
Space Science ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Space Research ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
International Space ◽  
Annual Budget ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University

Leicester University in the UK has for many years been a leader in space science. Recently an expansion of this programme was announced, with the inauguration of the Leicester Space Centre by the Secretary of State for Education and Science. Here, the Vice Chancellor and the Head of Physics and Astronomy at Leicester outline the background to this development. Current Space Research at the University involves some 80 graduate scientists, engineers and support staff and has an annual budget of over £1.5 million. Much of the work is carried out with UK industry, all of it lies – necessarily – within international space programmes. The principal aims of the Leicester initiative are threefold: to broaden the scope of its space programme, to enhance and develop industrial links, and to train the next generation of space scientists and engineers.

Article 189 TFEU

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Garben
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Space Policy ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Space Activities ◽  
The Eu

For a long time, space policy was pursued outside the EU framework either by MS individually or through independent cooperation structures, such as the European Space Agency (ESA). The intergovernmental ESA Convention was signed in Paris on 30 May 1975 by Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK and entered into force on 30 October 1980. While the EU’s involvement in space activities had been developing already since the 1980s, with the establishment of the Galileo and Copernicus space programmes at the turn of the millennium, these activities were only given a firm footing in the EU primary law by the ToL’s introduction of Article 189 TFEU.

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