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A YouTube short recently published on ESA’s video channel captures the city of Bucharest from space and tells the story of the capital, using the very detailed satellite imagery as a starting point. The original image was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission in 2020 and published last year.
Europe’s latest Galileo satellites in space have joined the operational constellation, transmitting navigation signals to three billion users across planet Earth as well as relaying distress calls to rescuers. Their entry into service follows a summer test campaign and will result in a measurable increase in positioning accuracy and improved data delivery performance of the overall Galileo system.
The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites you to watch the official NASA broadcast of the Artemis I mission to the Moon. The event will take place on Monday, 29 August, from 12:33 PM UTC (15:33 Romanian time). Dr. Phys. Marius-Ioan Piso, president of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), will be representing Romania at the Artemis launch. This year, Romania became the 16th country that signed the Artemis Accords, a set of statements initiated by NASA to establish common principles, guidelines, and best practices applicable to the entire lunar exploration programme.
From 25 July to 3 August 2022, Romania participated in the multinational exercise Global Sentinel 2022 (GS22), organised by the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The Romanian delegation included specialists from the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy (AIRA), the Institute of Space Science (ISS) and a representative of the Ministry of National Defence (MApN) from the Military Space Agency.
On 23 December 2021, Copernicus Sentinel-1B experienced an anomaly related to the instrument electronics power supply provided by the satellite platform, leaving it unable to deliver radar data. Since then spacecraft operators and engineers have been working tirelessly to rectify the issue.