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15.01.2021 New ESA chief: Europe must be at the forefront of rockets : Europe needs to be back at the forefront of the rocket market, according to the future director general of the European Space Agency (ESA). "We have to be at the forefront in launchers. The pressure is high, it is extremely high," Josef Aschbacher said at ESA's New Year's press conference in Paris.
30.12.2020 Galileo Green Lane - the mobile solution easing the traffic situation at EU Borders : To ensure the flow of people and goods throughout the European Union (EU), it is important to manage the traffic situation at the EU borders, including at UK-EU border, where traffic has accumulated following of the closure of the border with France, Belgium and Netherlands. The“GalileoGreenLane” mobile solution, developed in May by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) in collaboration with the European Commission, does exactly this – facilitating the free movement of traffic across borders by providing a real-time visualisation of the border situation to both border authorities and drivers.
26.11.2020 The 3D visualization tool PRo3D becomes open-source : In this press release VRVis introduces the 3D viewer PRo3D, which was developed for planetary research and is now available for scientific purposes.

Portraits

Der designierte ESA Generaldirektor Dr. Josef Aschbacher und Mrgit Mischkulnig, Abteilungsleiterin für Weltraumangelegenheiten im BMK

The BMK welcomes a special visitor

Dr. Josef Aschbacher visits the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Energy, Environment, Mobility, Innovation and Technology.

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