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  • Rymdteknik ska stoppa tjuvjakten

    Varje dag dödas i genomsnitt 55 elefanter och 3 noshörningar av tjuvjägare för sina betar och horn. Nu startar det 5-åriga innovationsprojektet Space for Wildlife som ett initiativ i linje med Agenda 2030. Det är rymdföretaget Umbilical Design och Peace Parks Foundation som visar hur teknik från rymdsektorn kan leda till nya innovationer för att stoppa tjuvjakten.

  • PRESSINBJUDAN: Möt Japans första kvinna i rymden Chiaki Mukai och Christer Fuglesang

    Dr Chiaki Mukai var hjärtkirurg och forskare när hon rekryterades som astronaut i Japan på 1980-talet. Hon har varit med på två rymdfärder och då ansvarat för olika experiment inom rymdmedicin och livsvetenskap. I dag är hon chef för Japan Aerospace Exploration Agencys (JAXA) Center for Applied Space Medicine and Human Research, och Vice President för Tokyo University of Science.

  • Drönare på Svalbard kan hjälpa arktisforskare med klimatarbete

    Rymdföretaget Umbilical Design arrangerar tillsammans med sin teknikpartner ÅF en drönarworkshop på Svalbard för forskningsstationschefer från 79 arktiska forskningsstationer. Syftet är att se hur drönare kan stödja klimatforskare i arbetet mot den globala uppvärmningen. Att driva hållbar utveckling med hjälp av rymdteknik har blivit något av ett kännetecken för Umbilical Design.

  • ESA lägger rymdkonferens i Lund

    ​Rymdteknik för hållbara, smarta städer och innovationer? Det är något som ska diskuteras när den Europeiska Rymdorganisationen ESA (European Space Agency) håller konferens under tre dagar i Lund i mars.

  • Umbilical Design erhåller förnyat treårskontrakt från ESA för att överföra rymdteknik till svensk industri

    Det svenska innovationsföretaget Umbilical Design, ledande inom design för rymden och extrema miljöer, har fått förnyat treårskontrakt som Space Broker för Sverige med den europeiska rymdorganisationen ESA. Umbilical Design arbetar med tekniköverföring från rymdsektorn till andra områden som till exempel medicinteknik, fordonsindustri och hållbar stadsplanering.

  • Umbilical Design chosen as a 2016 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner

    April 25, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden – Last week in Amsterdam, Red Herring announced its Red Herring Europe award winners this evening at the Top 100 forum, recognizing Europe’s leading private companies and celebrating these companies innovations and technologies across their respective industries. The Swedish innovation company Umbilical Design was chosen as a 2016 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Winner

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Video: 00:07:47 What a difference a year makes! Today Hera’s asteroid mission for planetary defence is cruising through deep space on the far side of the Sun, headed to its final destination: the Didymos binary asteroid system. But a year ago, on 7 October 2024, it was unsure if the mission was ever going to take off at all.Its launcher was grounded due to a launch anomaly and Hurricane Milton was closing on Cape Canaveral! The mission needed to lift off then and there because it had to perform a flyby of Mars to speed it on its way to Didymos. Any delay would add years to its travel time. But Hera received permission for launch and the heavens cleared just half an hour before launch. Liftoff happened to plan – the team had their mission in space!Since then Hera has been testing out the ‘self-driving’ technology it will use around the asteroids on Earth and the Moon, performed its flyby of Mars and imaged its very first asteroid from three million kilometres, proving the capability of its main Asteroid Framing Camera. Next Hera is heading for aphelion, its furthest distance from the Sun. It will reach Didymos in autumn 2026, after which it will begin its mission to find out what happened to the smaller asteroid after NASA’s DART spacecraft impacted it in September 2022.Read more

Hera’s first year in space

Video: 00:07:42 2025 marks a landmark year for Europe’s ‘bridge between Earth and space’. The European Space Agency’s Estrack satellite tracking network turns 50.Since its inception in 1975, Estrack – ESA’s global network of ground stations – has formed the vital communication bridge between satellites in orbit and mission control at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.Now comprising six stations spanning six countries, Estrack has grown into a strategic asset for Europe, enabling communication with spacecraft, transmitting commands and receiving scientific data.The network keeps an eye on satellites no matter their location: tracking them across Earth orbit, voyaging to comets or asteroids, keeping station at the scientifically important Sun-Earth Lagrange points, and deep into our Solar System. It even keeps tabs on European launchers as they soar into orbit, ensuring no rocket is ever out of reach.This year, ESA is also expanding its deep space communication capabilities with the construction of a new 35-metre deep space antenna – the fourth of its kind. It will be joining the existing one at New Norcia station, Australia, to help meet the Agency's fast increasing data download needs.Access the related broadcast quality footage.

Tracking satellites at the speed of light

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