European Space Research and Technology Centre

…Space Agency maintains ESTEC, the European Space Research and Technology Centre, in Noordwijk, Netherlands. ESTEC is the technical development interface between European industry and the scientific community. It oversees the development of spacecraft, and it has its own technological laboratories and extensive facilities for testing spacecraft and components under simulated…

…the organization are (1) the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), located in Noordwijk, Netherlands, which houses the satellite project teams and testing facilities and is the agency’s main space science and technological research centre, (2) the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), located in Darmstadt, Germany, which is concerned…

…Ockels was assigned to the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, Netherlands, where he worked on human spaceflight projects until 1996. During that time, Ockels was involved with the Columbus program, a European project to build a research module for the International Space Station. In 1992 he began…