Cleaning up with space tech

There’s just about nowhere that state-of-the-art space technologies cannot reach – from the martian atmosphere to…

Proba-2 fuel tank refilled from ‘solid gas’

Sometimes all it takes is fresh air to get a new lease of life. ESA’s Proba-2…

Accolade for water mission technology

Members of the driving force behind ESA's SMOS mission have been awarded the prestigious Certificate of…

Competitive space for Europe through technology and innovation

This year’s ESA Technology Innovation Days, on 22–23 November at ESTEC, will showcase technology developments supported…

Space hall of fame: nominate your technology for 2012

Numerous life-changing technologies have emerged from space. Now it’s time to promote European spinoffs to enter…

Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way

The largest digital camera ever built for a space mission has been painstakingly mosaicked together from…

ESA Summer of Code in Space 2011

The 2011 ESA Summer of Code In Space (SOCIS) starts! Mentoring organisations (i.e. open source space-related…

Proba-V equipped for radiation census of space

Planned to be launched next year, ESA’s Proba-V mission will perform daily tracking of global vegetation…

Cont-Trak offers reliable container tracking via satellite

Whether at sea, on rail, stacked or stored, shipping containers can now be tracked worldwide via…

Small Sun-watcher Proba-2 offers detailed view of massive solar eruption

ESA’s Proba-2 small Sun-watcher was among the flotilla of satellites on watch as the Sun erupted…