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march 23, 2017 - European Space Agency

On Friday 24 March NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will head outside the International #space Station for their second time as a spacewalking duo. It is the first in a ...



march 23, 2017 - European Space Agency

ESA and its partners are happy to announce that 45 teams will soon have the unique opportunity to have their own experiments running in space after winning the first European Astro Pi Challenge. ESA a...



march 23, 2017 - European Space Agency

Press release available only in original language. Information from ESA’s magnetic field Swarm mission has led to the discovery of supersonic plasma jets high up in our atmosphere that can push temper...



march 23, 2017 - European Space Agency

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: ESA SEEK HIGH ACHIEVING STUDENTS FOR PRODUCT ASSURANCE AND SAFETY TRAINING COURSEAn exciting opportunity has arisen for Master and PhD students to attend an ESA training course ...



march 22, 2017 - European Space Agency

Strong electric currents in the upper atmosphere are known to vary according to the season, but ESA’s Swarm mission has discovered that this seasonal variation is not the same in the north and south p...



march 21, 2017 - European Space Agency

Rosetta scientists have made the first compelling link between an outburst of dust and gas and the collapse of a prominent cliff, which also exposed the pristine, icy interior of the comet.  Sudden an...



march 21, 2017 - European Space Agency

ESA’s Swarm satellites are seeing fine details in one of the most difficult layers of Earth’s magnetic field to unpick – as well as our planet’s magnetic history imprinted on Earth’s crust.Earth’s mag...



march 20, 2017 - European Space Agency

20 March 2017The notion of glitter might appear as somewhat frivolous, but scientists are using Sun glitter in images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to map the motion of the sea surface.Create...



march 17, 2017 - European Space Agency

Some of the most wonderful pictures taken by astronauts from space are of aurora dancing over our planet. Now the photos are more than just pretty pictures thanks to an ESA project that makes them sci...



march 17, 2017 - European Space Agency

ESA astronaut #thomaspesquet will make two more spacewalks under NASA’s plans to maintain the International Space Station during his mission. Though intended for the end of March and April, the dates ...



march 16, 2017 - European Space Agency

Demanding electric, magnetic and power requirements, harsh radiation, and strict planetary protection rules are some of the critical issues that had to be tackled in order to move ESA’s Jupiter Icy Mo...



march 16, 2017 - European Space Agency

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has completed another set of important science calibration tests before a year of aerobraking gets underway. The mission was launched a year ago this week, and has been o...



march 16, 2017 - European Space Agency

Forty-two is the answer, but what is the question? Scientists from the University of Zurich wanted to probe how immune cells adapt to weightlessness so they sent an experiment to the International Spa...



march 16, 2017 - European Space Agency

Just over a week after being lofted into orbit, the European Union’s Sentinel-2B satellite delivered its first images of Earth, offering a glimpse of the ‘colour vision’ it will provide for the Copern...



march 09, 2017 - European Space Agency

Following three days of intensive work, mission control today declared the newly launched Sentinel-2B satellite fit and ready for commissioning. The 1100 kg Sentinel was launched on Tuesday atop a Veg...