First ESA long-duration ISS mission

ESA PR 18-2006. With NASA’s announcement today of the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on 1…

Baja from Space

Mexico�s Baja California Peninsula, highlighted in this Envisat image, lies at the southern tip of North…

European Space Parliament

Parliamentarians from 10 European countries met earlier this month in Brussels at the 8th European Interparliamentary…

Elements in Galaxy Clusters

Deep observations of two X-ray bright clusters of galaxies with ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite allowed a group…

Ilamatepec Volcano from Space

ESA�s micro-satellite, Proba, captured the Santa Ana Volcano in El Salvador. The Santa Ana Volcano, also…

Hubble captures a ‘quintuple’ quasar

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first-ever picture of a distant quasar lensed into…

Proba-2

Proba-2, currently under development and due for launch in September 2007, is the second in ESA’s…

Columbus arrives in Florida

After a journey that started at the weekend, the European Columbus laboratory arrived at NASA’s Kennedy…

World fire maps online

For a decade now, ESA satellites have been continuously surveying fires burning across the Earth’s surface.…

Possible Mars Sites for Life

By mapping minerals on the surface of Mars using the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft,…