European Launchers and Development Organisation : [Fonds], 1960-1976

Resource Information

The work European Launchers and Development Organisation : [Fonds], 1960-1976 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/Collection, Multimedia, Mixed Materials.

Label

European Launchers and Development Organisation : [Fonds], 1960-1976

Title remainder

[Fonds]

Inclusive dates

1960-1976

Creator

• European Organisation for the Development and Construction of Space Vehicle Launchers

Subject

• European Organisation for the Development and Construction of Space Vehicle Launcher -- Administration
• Launch vehicles (Astronautics) -- Europe -- Experiments
• Microfiches
• Centre spatial guyanais
• Space sciences -- Europe -- Experiments
• Space flights -- Planning

Genre

• Microfiches

Language

• eng
• fre
• ger
• spa
• ita
• swe
• eng
• eng

Summary

By means of these documents the reconstruction of the history of the European Launchers and Development Organisation (ELDO) can be retraced. The documents provide details of the "EUROPA Rockets Series" projects and of the financial history of ELDO which ended with its liquidation. An interesting appendix gives account of the Guiana Space Centre activities in Kourou

Biographical or historical data

ELDO was established by a Convention signed by six European countries (Belgium, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and Australia before 30 April 1962. It was created for the development and construction of space vehicle launchers and ancillary equipment after the collapse of the European Preparatory Commission for Space Research (COPERS) and the crisis of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO). ELDO made relevant use of the installations of the Guiana Space Centre (CSG) in Kourou for the implementation of launchers. ESRO and later the European Space Agency (ESA) continued a number of ELDO programmes and used the CSG facilities, where ESA in particular developed the ARIANE-1 (ELA-1) launching programme.

Cataloging source

IT-FiEUI

Language note

Fonds in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Swedish. Inventory in English

Location of other archival material

Documentation annexed to the fonds includes: a collection of NASA studies on physics, material on space astronomy and space bioscience, lectures in high-energy astrophysics.