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march 02, 2017 - ESA

With liftoff just few days away, the next Sentinel satellite for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme is positioned in the launch tower at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.Carr...



january 26, 2017 - ESA

By using galaxies as giant gravitational lenses, an international group of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made an independent measurement of how fast the Universe is expand...



december 21, 2016 - ESA

The sheer observing power of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is rarely better illustrated than in an image such as this. This glowing pink nebula, named NGC 248, is located in the Small Magellanic...



december 05, 2016 - ESA

With Europe’s Galileo satnav constellation soon to provide initial services, #esa is looking further ahead: its next-stage navigation research programme received strong backing during last week’s Coun...



november 28, 2016 - ESA

about 2000 Europeans helped to shape the future of space by taking part in a world first: the Citizens’ Debate on Space for Europe.ESA organised the event to gather opinions and ideas to help develop ...



november 28, 2016 - ESA

Each interplanetary mission that #esa flies carries a multitude of instruments. These spacecraft are headed to pretty inaccessible deep space destinations, so the aim is always to survey as many diffe...



november 24, 2016 - ESA

Clean Space is coming up to its fourth birthday and even if we’re not always been thought of as a technology­based programme, of course we are: seeking to redesign the space products to ensure that we...



november 23, 2016 - ESA

It was a literal property crash: multiple homes in the Cármenes del Mar resort on the south coast of Spain were engulfed in a landslide, leaving families homeless. But satellite archives offer early ...



november 21, 2016 - ESA

An Ariane 5 rocket has launched four additional Galileo satellites, accelerating deployment of the new satellite navigation system.The Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, lifted off from Europe’s Space...



november 18, 2016 - ESA

It’s easy to take spacecraft communications for granted. Yet the art and science involved in  sending commands to a satellite and receiving data back is of paramount importance. Without highly skilled...



november 11, 2016 - ESA

Down on Earth, everyone knows to remove batteries from electrical goods before recycling. When it comes to disposing of satellites in orbit, the same principle holds true: charged batteries or leftove...



november 11, 2016 - ESA

Europe’s next four Galileo navigation satellites are together on their dispenser atop the Ariane 5 launcher due to launch them next Thursday from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.Having been attach...



november 09, 2016 - ESA

The international iceberg patrol service set up after the sinking of the Titanic is now able to track drifting ice from orbit more swiftly through ESA-backed cloud computing.The icebergs drifting in t...



november 04, 2016 - ESA

At a ceremony held in Vatican City today, #esa and the Vatican Apostolic Library have agreed to continue their years-long cooperation on the preservation, management and exploitation of archived infor...



november 04, 2016 - ESA

Companies across Europe are teaming up to tackle different aspects of ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission. Its detailed definition work has begun, ahead of a go/nogo decision next month. The Astero...