Lo que depara el espacio a Europa en 2024
Misiones epaciales y lanzadores de la ESA programados para volar en 2024
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00:06 Come, come and see what the European Space Agency has in store for thee.
00:11 Launches, science, Earth observation and so much more.
00:15 All of this you get to see in 2024.
00:19 2024, year of the launches.
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00:33 As 2024 kicks into gear, we invite you to look ahead with ESA
00:37 and see what marvels await us in the coming 12 months.
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00:45 2024 will likely be remembered as the year of the launches.
00:49 After the Ariane 5 retirement in 2023, Europe's new and versatile heavy-duty launcher,
00:55 Ariane 6, will continue the Ariane legacy of excellence and reliability.
01:00 After years of development and construction, Ariane 6 will be ready for its first flight
01:05 from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, a pinnacle of European collaboration and ingenuity.
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01:16 In 2024, ESA and European industry will work towards the launch of Vega-C with new components.
01:23 Learning from the past is a path which leads to excellence,
01:27 and Vega-C will continue to provide Europe with its own affordable, lightweight launcher.
01:32 Together with Ariane 6, both projects guarantee Europe's independent access to space.
01:39 Although this independence is crucial for Europe,
01:42 ESA also continues to collaborate internationally with partners like NASA on their Artemis programme.
01:48 This spring, another European service module, or ESM-3, for the third Artemis mission,
01:53 will be shipped to the US for mating with its Orion capsule.
01:58 In 2024, ESA will also launch Prober 3, the first precision formation flying mission ever.
02:05 The coronagraph and decoltar spacecraft will fly together, forming a 144-metre coronagraph.
02:11 Studying the Sun's corona closer to the solar rim than ever before, a win for scientific research.
02:18 But scientists have more to rejoice about, because early in the year,
02:22 the first scientific data gathered by ESA's latest space telescope, Euclid, will be revealed.
02:29 Euclid was designed to explore the composition and evolution of dark matter and dark energy.
02:34 It will create a map of the large-scale structure of the Universe
02:38 by observing billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years.
02:43 With such dazzling numbers and observations on a scale which has never been seen before,
02:48 Euclid's data is sure to blow our minds.
02:52 Another exciting milestone in 2024 is ESA's HERA mission, that is set for launch in October.
03:00 This mission will fly to the binary asteroid system of Dimorphos and Didymos
03:05 to observe the aftermath of the impact made by NASA's DART mission.
03:10 With DART, NASA demonstrated mankind could change the orbit of an asteroid like Dimorphos,
03:16 a test to see if a similar mission could one day be used to protect our planet from an asteroid on a collision course.
03:23 In Earth observation, a whole host of satellites are ready to be launched.
03:31 For ESA, monitoring our planet from space is a crucial assignment,
03:35 and the plethora of satellites ready to observe Earth from space is testament to this.
03:40 The ESA and JAXA mission EarthCare, or Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer satellite mission,
03:46 will advance our understanding of the role that clouds and aerosols play in reflecting incident solar radiation
03:52 back out to space and trapping infrared radiation emitted from Earth's surface.
03:58 The Arctic Weather Satellite mission will provide frequent coverage of Earth
04:02 for improved now-casting and numerical weather prediction.
04:05 ESA also continues to support the European Union's Copernicus programme
04:10 with the launch of Sentinel-1C and Sentinel-2C satellites,
04:14 while more Copernicus expansion missions are being developed.
04:18 2024 will bring new developments as well for Galileo, the world's most precise satellite navigation system,
04:24 now serving more than 3 billion users around the globe.
04:28 Two more first-generation satellites are to be launched in April to provide redundancy,
04:33 followed by two more later in the year.
04:36 These will further expand the constellation and help guarantee Galileo's optimal performance.
04:42 Meanwhile, the first hardware deliveries will take place for the second-generation Galileo satellites,
04:48 and their development is in full swing.
04:51 The new generation will enhance the Galileo navigation technology,
04:54 making for an even more accurate and performance system.
04:58 A year in space cannot be complete without some exciting updates about the European Astronaut Corps.
05:08 In February, Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Morgensen is due to return to Earth
05:13 after a six-month stay on the International Space Station.
05:18 In 2024, ESA's five career astronauts from the 2022 astronaut class will finish their basic training.
05:25 Going forward, they will have to wait for their mission assignments,
05:29 and one day travel into space in search of scientific knowledge,
05:32 pushing the limits of humankind's ingenuity.
05:35 For Swedish reserve astronaut Markus Vant, there is no such wait,
05:40 because at the beginning of 2024 he flies to the ISS as a mission specialist on the Munin mission.
05:48 As you can see, the European Space Agency offers a lot to be.
05:52 Excitement, adventure and so much more in the year 2024.
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