Airbus: successful launch of Bartolomeo Platform
(CercleFinance.com) - Airbus announces the successful launch of the Bartolomeo platform.
It was successfully launched on 6 March from Cape Canaveral, Florida (United States).
The Bartolomeo platform is now on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), where it will be installed outside the Columbus laboratory, the European module of the ISS built by Airbus.
Andreas Hammer, Airbus' Head of Space Exploration said, "This unique platform will offer new and affordable Earth observation applications and give companies and research institutions the unique opportunity to explore their project quickly and easily in space."
The platform not only provides facilities for Earth observation, but also environmental research and climatology, robotics, materials science and astrophysics.
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It was successfully launched on 6 March from Cape Canaveral, Florida (United States).
The Bartolomeo platform is now on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), where it will be installed outside the Columbus laboratory, the European module of the ISS built by Airbus.
Andreas Hammer, Airbus' Head of Space Exploration said, "This unique platform will offer new and affordable Earth observation applications and give companies and research institutions the unique opportunity to explore their project quickly and easily in space."
The platform not only provides facilities for Earth observation, but also environmental research and climatology, robotics, materials science and astrophysics.
Copyright (c) 2020 CercleFinance.com. All rights reserved.