Meet Ian Carnelli, project manager for Hera, our planetary defense mission that will very soon be launched into space.
Hera will be, along with NASA’s DART spacecraft, humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system, a little understood class making up around 15% of all known asteroids.
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🚀 It’s not rocket science… oh wait it is!
Join Ariane 6 launch system architect, Tina, as she shows us a day in her life.
Tina has worked on space transport systems for 20 years now. She first worked on the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), then on the Ariane 5 Mid-life Evolution development and now on Europe’s newest launcher Ariane 6.
How did she become a rocket scientist?
“I was lucky enough to spend some months in French Guiana as a student for an internship and working there got me hooked – I was determined to come back for my job one day, and here I am: I spent a great part of 2023 in Kourou testing the Ariane 6 propulsion system, together with an amazing team of very skilled professionals.
I consider myself extremely lucky to have a job and colleagues that make me want to get out of bed and into the office every day – because we love what we do and because the people are simply amazing!”
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Can you spot the special guest? 👨🚀👀
30 June marks Asteroid Day, which aims to emphasise the importance of asteroids –their role in the formation of our Solar System, their impact in space resources and the importance of defending our planet from future impacts.
This year we are celebrating along with @universalpictures and @focusfeatures for the release of Wes Anderson’s new movie @AsteroidCity to bring you all the information you need to know about asteroids and how we protect our planet from them.
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