Watch the replay of ESA’s start-of-the-year press briefing looking forward to 2024. Director Common Josef Aschbacher presents this 12 months’s key milestones from ESA HQ in Paris: in 2024, Europe will regain its autonomous entry to house, with the inaugural flight of the heavy-lift launcher Ariane 6 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Hear extra about Hera, the planetary defence mission which can be launched on the finish of 2024 and EarthCARE, ESA’s Earth remark mission learning the function that clouds and aerosols play in reflecting photo voltaic radiation. Updates are additionally offered on how industrial European house firms will compete to ship provides to the Worldwide House Station by 2028.
