Stamp Profile

Europa 1991
Gibraltar

Issue Date: 26/02/1991

Europe, through the foresight of the astronomers Copernicus, Galileo and more recently Halley, has played a prominent role in our current understanding of Space and the Universe.

It is therefore, not surprising that European Countries have rallied together and joined resources in this advanced era of space technological development to form the European Space Agency with a view to continuing the work of its predecessors and remain in the forefront of space research and exploitation.

The Gibraltar Post Office has selected two stamps depicting various projects of the ESA to mark the European Space effort.

The 25p value features the Columbus Development Programme with the Free Flying Laboratory docked to the Spaceplane Hermes for in-orbit servicing and payload exchange. Both the laboratory and the Hermes are scheduled to be launched at the end of this Century.

 

The Remote Sensing Satellite ERS 1 illustrated on the 32p stamp design is the forerunner of a new generation of space missions planned for the 1990’s aimed at global environment monitoring which promises to make a substantial contribution to the scientific study of our environment.

The two stamps designed by 0, J, Gonzalez were issued on the 26th February 1991 and printed by lithography on un-watermarked Security paper by D B T International.

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Israel
Philately Day – The First Israeli Astronaut

Issue Date: 11/12/2001

The stamp Foreground - an astronaut's helmet with the planet earth, the Colombia space shuttle and the American and Israeli flags reflected on its visor.

Background - a sketch of the stars of the galaxy, together with a picture of space taken by the Hubble telescope and the symbol of ISA(Israel Space Agency).

Tab - a picture of space taken by Hubble and the symbol of the Israel Philatelic Federation.

The First Day Cover
Centre - photograph taken in space of the map of Israel and the Israeli and American flags.

Foreground - an astronaut and the Columbia space shuttle. Background, top right photograph taken in space of Jerusalem and the Dead Sea region. Background lower part - a dust storm over the Mediterranean basin which comes from the Sahara Desert. Background, top left –photograph of the sky taken in space.

Photographs by courtesy of the NASA and MEIDEX archives.

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Success in 20th Century (The Universe) 
North Korea

Issue Date: 25/09/2001

It is aggregate of all things existing in space, acting in infinite time and a course of constant evolution in various forms. It is the biggest and largest in the world.

Since the history of mankind began, one researched the stars in space and continued to have doubts about their formation and existence. One has never known before how big it is. We live on the earth, one of the plants existing in the galactic system. I t has the fabulous size and secrets inconceivable.

At present many countries in the world have launched artificial satellites to reveal its secret.

10 jon stamp (sheetlet): Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin (1934-1968), a Soviet cosmonaut, performing the space flight for the first time in the world.

40 jon stamp (sheetlet): Moon exploring satellite Apollo 11 launched on July 16,1969.

1.50 won stamp (sheetlet): Artificial earth satellite Kwangnyongsong 1 launched on August 31,1998 in the DPRK.

2 won stamp (sheetlet): Edmund Halley (1956-1742), an English astronomer and mathematician and Halley's comet exploring satellite Giotto launched in the Europe.

Depicted on the upper part of the sheetlet are a phenomenon of the solar eclipse, the artificial satellite Sputnik 1 launched in October 1957 in the Soviet Union and on the lower part the earth and the French supersonic plane Concord.

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Europe in Space 1991
Sweden

Issue Date: 15/05/1991

Space has always aroused man’s wonder and curiosity, He learned early how to utilise the stars to navigate and to explore our own Planet. From Space we can now explore the Earth and its near surroundings. One example is the first Swedish research satellite VIKING, which increased our knowledge of the Northern Lights. The successor to Viking is named Freja. 

Remote sensing and weather satellites give us possibility to make more accurate weather forecasts and to monitor environmental changes. Tele-satellites link tele-X and data communication networks between and within continents and makes the distribution of radio and TV over great distances possible. One Swedish example is the Satellite TELE—X. For small countries like Sweden international co-operation is a necessity. 

Sweden participates in the European Space Co-operation primarily through its membership in the European Space Agency. Within ESA, the launcher Ariane and the space vehicle Hermes are being developed, Swedish participation is planned and coordinated by the Swedish National Space Board.

Three 4.kr se-tenant stamps have been issued on the 15th May 1991 showing Hermes, Freja and Tele-X.

 

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