ESOC ESA Mission Patch
ESOC ESA Mission Patch
This ESA mission patch was created in honour of the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC). ESOC is located in Darmstadt, Germany and is the primary mission control for ESA's uncrewed spacecraft.ESOC was officially set up in 1967, building on the work done by the European Space Research Organisation (one of the founding organisations of what would go on to become the European Space Agency). Since then it has been at the heart of mission operations for many of ESA's most impressive achivements, including landing a spaceraft on Titan (the Huygens lander on Satrurn's moon in 2005), the Giotto spaceraft's flyby of Halley's Comet, as well as the Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014 - when the Philae lander became the first to touch down on a comet.
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Object number
2022-13
Location
Artefact Store
Has this object been into space?
No
Dimension - Dimension, Value, Measurement unit
Width: 10cm
Height: 10cm
Depth: 0.2cm
Material
Cotton
Object Production Date
1986 - 1995
Object Production Notes
Due to the flags on the patch, it is possible to work out that it was produced sometime between 1986 (when Austria and Norway joined, whose flags feature on the patch) and 1995 (when Finland officially joined ESA, whose flag is not on this patch).
Object Production Organisation
ESA
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