Following rigorous testing in France and Germany, a new type of dispenser designed to carry four navigation satellites into orbit at once is now in French Guiana, in place for Galileo’s first Ariane 5...
18 June 2016ESA astronaut #timpeake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Russian Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko landed safely today in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz spacecraft. T...
ESA’s first Mars orbiter will provide an important helping hand when the second arrives at the Red Planet in October.Following lift off in March, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and the Schiaparel...
ESA turned to the academic world to sharpen its understanding of how woodland vegetation can negatively affect the performance of satellite navigation systems.Most satnav users will have had the exper...
Launched on 25 April from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, Sentinel-1B has produced its first images only two hours after the radar was switched on – a record time for a space radar.The first obse...
10 June 2016Following rigorous testing in France and Germany, a new type of dispenser designed to carry four navigation satellites into orbit at once is now in French Guiana, in place for Galileo’s fi...
Title United KingdomReleased 10/06/2016 10:00 amCopyright Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2016]/ processed by ESADescriptionThe recently launched Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over the Un...
Our future in space stars on Earth7 June 2016 Timed to coincide with the opening of an exhibition on space and Antarctica, ESA and the British Antarctic Survey are presenting the story “Step to the st...
6 June 2016The ingenuity of four space engineers has created a zeroemission airconditioning system that doesn’t pollute our atmosphere when we turn it on.Air conditioning for offices, factories, shopp...
For a low-lying, densely populated country like the Netherlands, monitoring subsidence is critical. Until recently, tiny displacements in the ground beneath our feet couldn’t be mapped nationally but,...
31 May 2016ESA will be exhibiting in the ‘Space for Earth’ pavilion (Hall 4) at ILA – one of the world’s largest aerospace trade shows – this week.Mission control experts from ESA, DLR (the German Aer...
27 May 2016Ingredients regarded as crucial for the origin of life on Earth have been discovered at the comet that ESA’s #rosetta spacecraft has been probing for almost two years.They include the amino...
ESA will be exhibiting in the ‘Space for Earth’ pavilion at ILA, the Berlin Air and Space Show on 1–4 June.ILA is one of the world’s largest aerospace trade shows, bringing together the international ...
The challenge for the worldwide radio amateur community to start listening out for three new orbiting CubeSats was set on 21 April. ESA’s Education Office published the transmission frequencies of the...
Cyclone Roanu has claimed over 100 lives in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and has left tens of thousands in need of aid. Officials are looking to the sky for information on flooded areas to analyse the cy...
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