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ANUNT pentru concursul organizat de Ministerul Cercetării, Inovării și Digitalizării (MCID) prin Direcția Managementul Bazelor Materiale de Cercetare (DMBMC), pentru ocuparea, pe perioadă nedeterminată, a postului vacant de director general la Agenția Spațială Română, instituție publică care funcţionează în subordinea Ministerului Cercetării, Inovării şi Digitalizării.

ESA’s Navigation Directorate is planning an in-orbit demonstration with new navigation satellites that will orbit just a few hundred kilometres up in space, supplementing Europe’s 23 222-km-distant Galileo satellites.

Despite being essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field isn’t something we can actually see in itself, or ever hear. However, magnetic signals measured by ESA’s Swarm satellite mission were converted into sound – with a pretty scary result.

As the world’s space agencies prepare to return to the Moon and explore the planets, space materials engineers have been getting to grips with a challenging enemy: dust. The abrasive, talcum-like dust enshrouding the Moon and other planetary surfaces can obscure surfaces, wear away at coatings and clog space mechanisms.

ESA’s Navigation Directorate is planning a new satellite whose results will enable the generation of an updated global model of Earth – the International Terrestrial Reference Frame, employed for everything from land surveying to measuring sea level rise – with an accuracy down to 1 mm, while tracking ground motion of just 0.1 mm per year.