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