19 May 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 7 – Motivation and Flow 7: Motivation and Flow Working efficiently requires effort and hard work from everyone involved. This is particularly true of concurrent ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Media Updates
20 April 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 6 – Three Steps to Achieve Commitment 6: Three Steps to Achieve Commitment In concurrent design, solutions to a problem should always be based on facts. But it is also importa... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Media Updates
12 April 2022 5 minutes Celebrating the International Day of Human Space Flight How were you involved in manned spaceflight? I worked for the European Space Agency for 37 years, culminating in being Inspector General,... Blog Media Updates Space
30 March 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 5 – Gain a holistic view through a cyclical approach 5. Take an Iterative Approach Concurrent design supports (technically) complex problems. To approach these problems logically and product... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Engineering Media Updates
17 February 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 4 – Assign Ownership 4. Assign Ownership In this post, we explain why the success of concurrent design depends on all stakeholders being mandated experts and ... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Engineering Media Updates
31 January 2022 5 minutes Space Safety and Security – Why Both Matter What aspects are considered important for space safety? ESA’s original Space Situational Awareness programme concentrated on space debris... Blog Media Updates Security Space
27 January 2022 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 3 – Be Driven by Data 3. Be Driven by Data Concurrent design focuses on a rational, fact-based type of decision-making. However, exact values are not always av... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Data Media Updates
19 January 2022 5 minutes Exploring Quantum Computing – A Beginner’s Guide A short introduction to quantum computing based on a detailed beginner’s guide in OpenSpace 29 magazine. Blog Data Media Updates Quantum
9 December 2021 4 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 2 – Create Team Bonds 2: Create Team Bonds In this post, we explain why team bonds are so important to the success of concurrent design. Creating a team from s... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Media Updates
29 November 2021 4 minutes Taking care of your mental health – our people share their best advice We ask RHEA’s ex-military personnel what has helped them – and may help others – take care of their mental health: How did you manage the... Blog Media Updates
9 November 2021 5 minutes 10 Success Factors for Collaborative Design: Part 1 – Create Shared Understanding 1. Create Shared Understanding In this post, we explain what concurrent design is and look at the importance of creating shared understan... Blog Collaborative Engineering Concurrent Design Media Updates
7 October 2021 4 minutes World Space Week 2021 – Women in Space What part of ESA do you work in and what does your job entail? I work at ESTEC in the Netherlands, which is the European Space Research a... Blog Engineering Media Updates Space
30 September 2021 5 minutes Time to say goodbye to documents and hello to MBSE Model-based system engineering (MBSE) is not new. However, in a world where a project may have hundreds of stakeholders using myriad tool... Blog Concurrent Design Engineering MBSE Media Updates
20 September 2021 4 minutes The Critical Role of Cybersecurity in Space Applications and Programmes In the 2020s, space systems deployment, space data and communications are growing in importance every year, as witnessed by the huge grow... Blog Media Updates Security Space
1 September 2021 6 minutes 11 Times Space Weather Affected the Earth – And One Lucky Near Miss September 1859 In 1859, Earth experienced what is widely thought to be the most powerful solar storm on record. The ‘Carrington event’ is... Blog Media Updates Science Space
16 August 2021 5 minutes How Europe’s Copernicus Programme Can Help Us Tackle Climate Change Susanne Mecklenburg, Head of the ESA Climate Office, explains how satellite data from Europe’s Copernicus programme is supporting vital c... Blog Media Updates Science Space
21 May 2021 4 minutes Why Everyone is at Risk from Space Weather What is space weather? ‘Space weather’ refers to phenomena that occur due to activities on the sun’s surface and also non-solar activity.... Blog Media Updates Space
21 April 2021 5 minutes How to Measure Man-Made CO2 from Space The CO2M satellite constellation, a planned Copernicus Sentinel mission, will measure human-made CO2 emissions to support assessment of c... Blog Earth Observation Media Updates Space
