The 240-km-long River Arno winds its way seaward through the tranquil countryside of Umbria and Tuscany,…
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ISS spacewalk
The last outstanding hardware needed before arrival of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the European-built ISS…
Galaxy Collisions
Data from ISO, the infrared observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA), have provided the first…
Countdown to Shuttle return to flight
Launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will soon see the Shuttle blasting off…
Proba Yielding Beautiful Results
In orbit for three and a half years now, ESA’s smallest Earth Observation satellite is making…
Sand Dunes from Space
This Envisat image shows two huge sand dune seas in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya,…
WISE study starts in Toulouse
Since Saturday, 19 March, the study entitled Women International Space Simulation for Exploration (WISE) has been…
Space debris: assessing the risk
Assessing the risk that space debris pose to operational spacecraft and satellites is a challenge and…
Large Space Simulator
A new ‘specimen access device’ (SPAD) to allow safe and fast access to spacecraft being tested…
Giant Iceberg
Envisat radar imagery confirms that the B-15A iceberg the world’s largest floating object is…