Cosmic Vision

ESA’s ‘Cosmic Vision 2015-2025’ workshop, held at UNESCO in Paris on 15-16 September 2004, showed that…

Water and Methane on Mars

Recent analyses of ESA’s Mars Express data reveal that concentrations of water vapour and methane in…

ESA honoured with two AAAF prizes

The Association Aéronautique & Astronautique de France (AAAF) has awarded two of its annual prizes to…

Improving wine with satellites

The wine harvest has begun in many regions of Europe. Will it be a vintage year,…

Huygens test successful

ESA’s Huygens probe, now orbiting Saturn on board the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft, is in good health…

Europe’s MSG weather satellite

The first Meteosat Second Generation meteorological satellite is today in operational service as Meteosat-8. The data…

Space-tech at the Paralympics

At the 2004 Paralympics this week, Wojtek Czyz, the world record holder for long jump, will…

Newton in space DVD

The new educational DVD ‘Newton in Space’ was enthusiastically received during its first showing last week.…

Small satellites at ESA/CNES symposium

More than 200 experts from 25 countries meet next week to discuss small satellites and what…

Learn more about how spacecraft operate

Have you ever wanted to be a space engineer, or at least see how space engineers…