The front gates of ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands, set to be thrown open to the European public on Sunday 2 October. In place for more than half a century, the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk on the North Sea coast is ESA’s largest establishment, focused on developing technology, planning missions and testing satellites. A full-scale model of the ERS-1 Earth-observing satellite, launched in 1991, is placed to the right.
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