Eureca ESA Mission Patch
Eureca ESA Mission Patch
This ESA mission patch was created for the Eureca mission launched in 1992. EURECA stood for 'European Retrievable Carrier'. The patch shows the Eureca satellite in orbit, with Europe below. A Space Shuttle can also be seen beneath the satellite, whilst the flags of member states of the European Space Agency run around the edge of the patch.The Eureca mission was designed to place a satellite in orbit with multiple experiments aboard. The primary focus of the mission was on the space environment, as this satellite would be returned to Earth for study, to see how it had changed due to things like space debris impacts and micrometeoroids. Eureca carried 15 experiments in total, including the Timeband Capture Cell Experiment (TICCE) which was developed in the United Kingdom. TICCE studied the population distributions of tiny particles, such as Earth debris, micrometeoroids, and cosmic dust, in low Earth orbit.
In 1993, after 334 days in space, Eureca was captured by the Space Shuttle Endeavour, placed into the spacecraft's cargo bay, and safely returned to Earth. After extensive study, the satellite was eventually put on display at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne.
More information
Object number
2022-6
Location
Artefact Store
Has this object been into space?
No
Dimension - Dimension, Value, Measurement unit
Width: 15cm
Height: 9.5cm
Depth: 0.2cm
Material
Cotton
Object Production Date
1990s
Object Production Organisation
ESA
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