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Honestly, pleasantly surprised that this is a European-led initiative, it’s really great to see ESA stepping up with such an ambitious project.
by CharlesXY 1y ago
Honestly, pleasantly surprised that this is a European-led initiative, it’s really great to see ESA stepping up with such an ambitious project.
- sandworm101 1y agoMostly European. The ESA map has a little cutout for the one non-european "cooperator" state on the council. https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Member_States_Cooperating_States https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Corporate_news/Member_States_Co...
- ChocolateGod 1y agoCanada is currently pretending to be a European country sssh
- saubeidl 1y agoWe'll annex them before the Americans do!
- preisschild 1y agoFor Canada we can rename the EU to just "the Union" or even "The United States" :)
- JLemay 1y agoI mean it sounds great for materials extraction, but I’m a bit skeptical on infrastructure that will make long-term exploration and a lunar economy actually viable
- saubeidl 1y agoESA is leading the way in a bunch of space stuff - we're not great at launchers, but the stuff we send up is top-notch. There's Euclid, which maps out the visible sky in insane detail [0] There's Galileo, which provides much higher accuracy than GPS. (20cm vs 5m!) And then there's Copernicus, which provides open-access Earth Observation as a public good. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZCsUfgLRQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZCsUfgLRQ
- snickerbockers 1y ago>There's Galileo, which provides much higher accuracy than GPS. (20cm vs 5m!) Very ironic name for a group of satellites orbiting the earth.