ESA : DUTCH IN SPACE @ European Space Agency Holland
The ESA European Space Agency in Holland had an open day this week to give us some insights in to their operation here in their HQ near Noordwijk in Holland. A short hop from Amsterdam we decided to accept the invite and take a look around to see what Space and Science stuff we could lean on the ad hoc. Along with my friends Jan-Dick, Linda, and Cor we met Andre Kuipers, our lery own local spaceman, and had a nice mooch about. ESA is not far from the Keukenhof and near the sea, to give you an idea where.
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Space Expo - Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Space Expo is Europes first permanent space exhibition. Space Expo is also the visitors centre for ESA in the Netherlands, the European Space Agency's largest technical establishment.
See what it was like for the first men on the Moon.
Experience the simulated launch of an Ariane rocket live.
Discover the world of satellites with the test models of European space missions.
Find out all about astronauts and see how they live and work in space.
ESTEC: a day in the life
A composite day at ESTEC, the European space research and technology centre, as depicted in time-lapse format.
Located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, ESTEC is Europe’s largest place for space, the technical heart of the European Space Agency. For almost all European space missions, the path to space leads through ESTEC.
Around 2700 people arrive here for work every day, working on a broad range of space activities from scientific exploration to telecommunications, Earth observation to navigation, robotics to human spaceflight.
A suite of unique laboratories probe every aspect of the space environment, applying decades of hard-won expertise. Seen here is preparation for testing materials in simulated space conditions as well as atomic force microscopy, employing a nanometer-wide tip like a stylus across a record player to reveal surface topography down to the atomic scale.
Full-scale testing of satellites takes place in the ESTEC Test Centre, including the Maxwell Chamber, kept isolated from the external world for precision electromagnetic testing, and the Large Space Simulator, Europe’s largest vacuum chamber used to reproduce the airlessness and temperature extremes encountered in space. The chamber uses large quantities of liquid nitrogen to mimic the chill of deep space.
Erasmus is ESTEC’s human spaceflight facility, supporting researchers in the design and performance of experiments in microgravity conditions. Also based there is ESTEC’s Telerobotics lab – developing methods of remotely controlling robots using force feedback, extending the human sense of touch to space. The lab team are putting the finishing touches to the Interact Centaur rover, a robot designed to be operated remotely by astronauts in orbit.
Want to see more? You can on Sunday 4 October, with your own eyes – register to attend the 2015 ESTEC Open Day!
Credit: ESA–S. Verzier
ESTEC Open Day 2017
The annual ESA Open Day in the Netherlands was a huge success this year. See how Lisa and her grandfather Ton enjoy their day on the ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Every day you can come visit ESTEC's Space Expo visitor centre to experience space up close and personal, ahead of coming to see us at the 2018 Open Day.
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Space Expo - Noordwijk (06-08-2011)
All about space
Space Expo is Europe's first permanent space exhibition. Space Expo is also the visitors' centre for ESA in the Netherlands, the European Space Agency's largest technical establishment. See what it was like for the first men on the Moon. Experience the simulated launch of an Ariane rocket 'live'. Discover the world of satellites with the test models of European space missions.Find out all about astronauts and see how they live and work in space.
Space Expo Noordwijk (Gefilmd met een Canon IXUS 220HS)
Van alles over ruimtevaart is te zien en te beleven bij Space Expo in Noordwijk. Spacy en interactief... Je wordt meegenomen op een reis langs verre planeten en prachtige Melkwegstelsels. In de tentoonstelling maak je op leuke wijze kennis met ruimtevaart in al haar facetten. Naast de rijke historie toont Space Expo ook de toepassingen én de techniek achter de ruimtevaart. Space Expo is het officiële bezoekerscentrum van ESTEC, de Nederlandse vestiging van ESA, the European Space Agency.
ESTEC open dag 2017
At the ESTEC Open Day 2017 on October 8th the doors were opened to their facilities in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Mijn Film Space Expo Noordwijk met gesproken tekst 2016
Space Expo is Europe's first permanent space exhibition Space Expo is also the visitor centre for ESA in the Netherlands the European Space Agency 's largest technical establishment.
Children visit Europe's first permanent space exhibition.
SHOTLIST
1. Multi-Axis Simulator outside Space Expo Centre
2. Children walking into Space Expo Centre
3. Children playing outside Expo Centre
4. Children putting on space suits
5. Various of children listening to guide at exhibit
6. 3D Simulation of the moon
7. Various of little boy using interactive computer
8. Various of children looking at exhibit
9. Monitor showing children through infrared camera
10. Satellite using infrared radiation
11. Boy using temperature simulator
12. Various of satellite near sun
13. Girl using temperature simulation
14. SOUNDBITE: (English): Visitor to Space Expo (name not available):
Today I saw something about the Milky Way, about saltiest, about the work of ESTEC and the European Space Agency about our international space station and everything related to that.
15. Various of children inside European space laboratory and Russian module Zvezda
16. Various of children watching launch simulation
17. Launch simulation
18. SOUNDBITE (English): Carla van der Maden, Space Expo Guide;
Yeah, what else can they see here, simulation of a launch. It is not that noise during an original launch, we are very physical friendly, but they just get an impression how it goes, yes.
19. Various of children launching water rockets outside
20. SOUNDBITE (English): Visitor to Space Expo (name not available)
I like the Space shuttle.
21. Various of children using Multi-Axis Simulator
22. SOUNDBITE (English): Visitor to Space Expo:
It was wonderful, it was wonderful. I liked the most the launching of the rockets, all the gases came and the children were coughing. It was really nice.
23. Various of children listening to guide
24. Children waving goodbye
LEAD IN:
With the summer holidays underway, visitors can find out the answers to what the universe has to offer at Europe's first permanent space exhibition.
The European Space Agency visitors' Centre near to the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk in the Netherlands has attracted more than 1 million visitors since it opened in 1990.
STORY LINE
From school children to businessmen, celebrities and members of royalty, all have experienced the magic of space exploration from the comfort of Earth.
Dressed as real astronauts, the youngest visitors start their journey through the exhibition.
Visitors can set foot on the moon, just like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did back in 1969.
They discover with surprise that because of the moon's weaker gravitational force, we would weigh 6 times less in space than we do on Earth.
Taken to Pluto, we wouldn't weigh more than a cat.
The mysteries of the Universe and the deepest secrets of our closest neighbours are revealed in pictures taken by space explorers such as the Hubble Space telescope and Mars Express.
Visitors to ESA's Expo get the rare chance to see themselves through an infrared camera, similar to the ones scientists use to distinguish between warm spots in the Milky Way and regions with cooler dust.
Visitors experience the extreme difference in temperature that satellites face when one side is being lit by the sun, raising it above 100 degrees Celsius and the opposite side, in the shadow, plummets.
One visitor to the Space Expo says during his visit he has learned about everything from the milky way to ESTEC and ESA.
A full size model of the European space laboratory Columbus and the Russian module Zvezda are on display.
Here visitors can learn how astronauts live, work, eat, store their supplies, and sleep.
Carla van der Maden is a Space Expo guide. She says one of the main attractions is their launch simulator.
Visitors can also practice their own launching skills outside with water rockets.
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at the space expo ( ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Holland.
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ESTEC Open Day 2016
In place for more than half a century, the complex ESTEC in Noordwijk is ESA’s single largest establishment, focused on developing technology, planning missions and testing satellites. More than 8700 visitors at the Open Day on 2 October 2016 were able to wander around the sprawling facility at their own pace, meeting astronauts, scientists and mission designers while seeing special exhibits and actual space hardware.
The theme of this year’s Open Day was “Breath of Life” – the ExoMars orbiter, currently nearing Mars, will be searching out methane and associated rare gases in the thin alien atmosphere as evidence of either surviving Mars microbes or a different kind of ‘life’ – subsurface volcanic activity, which would mean the planet remains geologically active.
Visiting Space Expo Noordwijk
A short video about my visit of the ESA space Expo at Noordwijk
Quite strange that i am a big space fan but never been there ( only 1/2 mile ) from my home..
4 October 2015: Europe’s largest place for space opens up
Europe’s largest place for space is little visited, but hugely influential: this October you get the chance to see for yourself. ESA’s technical centre ESTEC is opening its doors to the public – a must for all space enthusiasts.
Mark your calendar: this year’s ESTEC Open Day will take place on Sunday 4 October – the 58th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik-1 – as part of the Netherlands’ national Weekend of Science and World Space Week.
This is your chance to meet astronauts and space experts, tour key facilities and examine actual space hardware in close-up. This year’s event will focus on our longer-term space future, highlighting new technologies being developed to change the space industry state-of-the-art, and the new destinations being opened up in the process.
ESTEC Shake
This version of the Harlem Shake video, called the ESTEC Shake, was filmed on a real 'electrodynamic shaker', normally used to test spacecraft at the European Space Agency's technical centre, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. One of the major risks faced by satellites stems from the high vibrations they experience during launch. It is essential to test spacecraft and their components under similar conditions on such shakers to make sure they will survive the violent ride into space.
ESA's Test Centre is the largest centre of its kind in Europe, and one of the largest in the world.
The video was filmed by ESTEC volunteers, in their own time, at zero cost, while the shaker unit was being reconfigured. Strict safety, security and cleanroom procedures were followed during filming.
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Music: Harlem Shake, by Baauer (Mad Decent), maddecent.com
ESTEC Open Day 2014, 5 October 2014
ESTEC, the European Space Research and Technology Centre, is the technical hub of Europe’s space activities and the European Space Agency’s single largest establishment. It is based at Noordwijk in the Netherlands, on the North Sea coast.
Once a year ESTEC opens its gates to the public. Visitors can tour the sprawling site where Europe’s space missions are devised, guided through development then finally tested for space.
The 5 October 2014 ESTEC Open Day will have the theme of “50 years of European cooperation in space – bring on the next 50 years!”
ESTEC Open Day is taking place in conjunction with the Netherlands’ national Weekend of Science and the global World Space Week. ESTEC’s home municipality of Noordwijk will also be joining in the festivities across the entire weekend, its beachfront transformed into ‘the space to be’ with themed open-air exhibits and a space market.
Being obliged to limit the total number of visitors to ensure a great experience for all who do attend, we urge you to book early to avoid disappointment through this link: esa.int/register
Space Expo - Noordwijk
A video by ESA regarding the Space Expo, the visitor centre of the European Space Agency, Europe's first permanent space exhibition which lies in Noordwijk, close to ESA establishment ESTEC. Source-
ESTEC - the technical heart of the European Space Agency
Date- 17th Oct 11 Source-
'ESA has sites in several European countries, but the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is the largest.
ESTEC is our technical heart - the incubator of the European space effort - where most ESA projects are born and where they are guided through the various phases of development.'
ESTEC Open Day 2013
Highlights of ESTEC Open Day on Sunday 6 October 2013. More than 8 500 members of the public visited ESA's largest establishment, located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, during the day-long event. Attractions included a chance to meet three ESA astronauts: Ulf Merbold, ESA's very first astronaut, who flew on a Space Shuttle Spacelab mission 30 years ago this year, Reinhold Ewald who visited Mir in 1997, and André Kuipers who flew to the International Space Station in 2004 and 2011-2012. Visitors also the chance to see ESA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury, see highlights from ESA's technical laboratories, try out an inflatable planetarium, shoot water from the ESTEC fire engine's fire hoses, fly drones by remote control and meet the men and women behind Europe's missions in space.
FPV flight Bergstichting, Estec Space Center Noordwijk
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ESA Estec open dag - Noordwijk
Het Europese Centrum voor de ruimtevaart Estec in Noordwijk deed na 20 jaar weer haar deuren open tijdens de open dag op 7 oktober. In totaal 8500 mensen kwamen een kijkje nemen achter de schermen. Ook astronaut André Kuipers kwam vertellen over zijn belevenissen in de ruimte.
Soyoez lancering in de Space Expo Noordwijk