The European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) is ESA's main technology development and test centre for spacecraft and space technology. It is situated in Noordwijk ZH, The Netherlands. This article is about the European Space Agency. ... Noordwijk (population: 24,452 in 2004) is a municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. ...
At ESTEC about 2500 engineers, technicians and scientists work hands-on with spacecraft and space technology. The test centre provides extensive test facilities to verify the proper operation of spacecraft, such as the Large Space Simulator (LSS), acoustic en electromagnetic testing bays, multi-axis vibration tables. Almost all equipment that ESA launches are tested prior to launch at this test facility.
See also : ESA This article is about the European Space Agency. ...
ESA science missions are based at ESTEC in Noordwijk, Netherlands, Earth Observation missions at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy, ESA Mission Control (ESOC) is in Darmstadt, Germany, and the European Astronauts Centre (PACI), that trains astronauts for future missions is situated in Cologne, Germany.
The ESRO's successor organisation ESTEC (European Space Research and Technology Centre, based in Noordwijk, the Netherlands) is still a part of ESA, though ESA itself is a much bigger organisation today.
ESA in its current form was founded in 1974, when ESRO was merged with ELDO.
K.N. Bateson, D.C. Hamill and B.E. Mulhall, "Development of a high-frequency dc-dc auxiliary converter", final report, ref. 8560/89/NL/JG, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 1993
D.C. Hamill and K.N. Bateson, "Development of a high-frequency dc-dc auxiliary converter", final presentations, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, Nov. 1992
D.C. Hamill, "Power-supply and battery considerations in rf design", IEE vacation school on rf circuit and system design, Guildford, July 1992
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