Chinese Satellite Launched

On July 25 at 09:05 CEST (15:05 local time) the Chinese National Space Administration successfully launched…

Earth from Space: image of the week

A large part of Brazil’s Amazon Basin is shown here. The area is a low-lying valley…

Ship-sinking monster waves

Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment…

‘Jules Verne’ arrives at ESTEC

After a long and complicated journey by air, land and sea, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…

New Observing the Earth website

What is the use of Earth Observation? Quite a lot is the short reply; the full…

Galileo moves forward

The GalileoSat development and in-orbit validation phase is well under way and the European Space Agency…

Space tech captures toxic micro-organisms

Sophisticated technology developed to ensure clean air for astronauts onboard space stations is now used in…

Space researchers gather in Paris

At the invitation of ESA and CNES, the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is holding its…

The Risk From Near-Earth Objects

On 9 July 2004, the Near-Earth Object Mission Advisory Panel recommended that ESA place a high…

Saturn’s moon Iapetus

Below is a link to a ‘raw’, or unprocessed, image of Saturn’s ‘yin-yang’ moon Iapetus taken…