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november 08, 2016 - European Space Agency

This month, a single Ariane 5 rocket is set to propel four Galileo satellites into orbit for the navigation constellation’s first-ever quadruple launch. Mission controllers are training intensively fo...



october 28, 2016 - European Space Agency

Two weeks of intense research in microgravity have just concluded for two enthusiastic teams of university students as part of the Drop Your Thesis! 2016 programme launch campaign. STAR team, from Uni...



october 28, 2016 - European Space Agency

ESA Education has once again offered university students sponsorship to attend one of the most important events in the annual space calendar, the International Astronautical Congress (IAC). This year’...



october 27, 2016 - European Space Agency

The international effort to find, confirm and catalogue the multitude of asteroids that pose a threat to our planet has reached a milestone: 15 000 discovered – with many more to go.The number of cata...



october 27, 2016 - European Space Agency

When it comes to operating a spacecraft, there is just one simple rule: No spacecraft, no job! This is one of the first things that students were taught at the #esa Academy’s Training and Learning Cen...



october 26, 2016 - European Space Agency

Dressed in their Sokol suits, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet are ready for the final examination on the Soyuz spacecraft that will tak...



october 25, 2016 - European Space Agency

ESA astronauts #lucaparmitano and #pedroduque, together with  Eurocom #matthiasmaurer are starting the second phase of their ESA ‘Pangaea’ planetary geological field training on a landscape very simil...



october 20, 2016 - European Space Agency

As hundreds flee lava and ash spewed from Mexico’s Colima volcano, its continuing eruption is being tracked not only by ground instruments but also from space. Starting last month, Colima is one of 22...



october 07, 2016 - European Space Agency

his week, the commands that will govern the Schiaparelli lander’s descent and touchdown on Mars were uploaded to ESA’s ExoMars spacecraft, enroute to the Red Planet.The Trace Gas Orbiter has been carr...



october 07, 2016 - European Space Agency

Discover the Thematic Exploitation Platforms – or TEPs – which provide a virtual work environment to exploit complex satellite data...



october 06, 2016 - European Space Agency

High-tech and nature came together perfectly from 20 to 23 September 2016. 22 University students from 15 different European countries joined forces at the ESA Academy - Training and Learning Centre i...



october 06, 2016 - European Space Agency

A miniaturised biotech unit developed for the International Space Station is improving medical diagnoses on Earth with affordable automation of small-scale diagnostics.In vitro diagnostics, or IVDs, a...



october 04, 2016 - European Space Agency

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has the pleasure to announce a new challenge for students 16 years old and under from all ESA Member States*. Thomas is looking forward to his upcoming Proxima mission, bu...



october 04, 2016 - European Space Agency

Oceans might not be thought of as magnetic, but they make a tiny contribution to our planet’s protective magnetic shield. Remarkably, ESA’s Swarm satellites have not only measured this extremely faint...



september 23, 2016 - European Space Agency

23 September 2016Brief but powerful outbursts seen from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko during its most active period last year have been traced back to their origins on the surface.In the three month...