Game changing space solutions for sport!
From May 8 to July 26, the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay travelled across mainland France and its overseas territories. Over 68 stages, the torch journeyed through numerous locations, including a couple of space-related events.
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Gifted players from all over the world travelled to the Arabian Peninsula to play for their nation’s colours at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar, a controversial edition but from a technological perspective also an innovative one. Technology has been a game changer in football for many years now and space has been a key player in this development.
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The Chinese national Olympic team is getting a boost thanks to the country’s aerospace industry. Their new homemade bobsleighs, benefiting from aerospace materials and improved aerodynamics, make their debut in the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022. But it is not the only link between space technology and the Winter Olympics. Time to pick up your moon boots, learn some lunar skiing, and earn that cosmic medal!
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For more than two decades now, humanity has been pedalling in space! To celebrate this achievement, and on the occasion of the World Championships for cycling in Belgium, I interviewed ESA astronaut Frank De Winne about past, current and future biking exercise activities in space.
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Just like Formula 1, space is a fantastic vehicle to drive innovation. In this blog post you will find out about multiple space and F1 spin-offs, and you will learn how satellite applications are being used on the racetrack (and no it’s not all about “GPS”). Finally, we will come to a pit stop in zero G!
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Space technology has made the Olympics a truly global event. Thanks to satellite communications, images can reach viewers across the world in less than a second. Athletes on the other hand benefit from space spin-offs and satellite data to boost their performance. Meanwhile, astronauts are competing in their own Space Olympics!
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What happens when two stars collide in space? They talk about the most important of the least important things in life, football! Here is how France wonderkid Kylian Mbappé had a video call with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, just a few days before going into the UEFA Euro 2020. The two French superstars talked football, space and everything in between!
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How can space serve tennis players? Find out how an ESA recycling system reuses shower water for flushing toilets at the French Open, learn how tennis rackets have improved thanks to space technology, and see who won the first ever game of tennis in space!
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In deze blogpost overlopen we een aantal ruimtevaart toepassingen in de loopwereld. Voor de ultieme runner’s high starten we bij het Internationaal ruimtestation. Ooit gehoord van een ruimtemarathon of een ruimteloopband van Belgische makelij? Op onze eigen planeet maken we ondertussen gretig gebruik van satelliet data bij het lopen. Tot slot hebben we vandaag toegang tot beter schoeisel dankzij ruimtevaart onderzoek, en ook ruimtedekens laten ons niet koud!
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Een jaar geleden waren we getuige van de allereerste virtuele Ronde van Vlaanderen, maar wist je ook dat ruimtedata hier een belangrijke rol in vervulde? Meer nog, wie had ooit gedacht dat ruimtevaart technologie zadelpijn zou verhelpen of zelfs iemand op weg kon helpen naar olympisch goud? En hoe fiets je trouwens in gewichtloosheid? Ontdek een waaier aan ruimtevaart toepassingen in de wielersport!
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