KILLER KISSING BUGS ATTACK

In the midst of crammed slums in the Nicaraguan district of Matagalpa, aid workers are hunting…

Conjunction Over, Mars Express Active

For mission controllers, a solar conjunction means that a spacecraft, the Sun and the Earth are…

SMART-1 celebrates its first year in space

One year after its launch on 27 September 2003, the SMART-1 spacecraft is in excellent health…

Space-tech – Paralympics – World Record

Wojtek Czyz running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record in Athens…

Mars Express latest findings

Recent results from the ASPERA-3 instrument on board Mars Express confirm that a very efficient process…

IAC in Vancouver

Vancouver, Canada, hosts the 55th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) from 4 to 8 October this year.…

First Galileo experimental satellite model

The structural model of the first of two experimental Galileo satellites to be launched in 2005,…

High speed space-tech cooling

Cool your product from 22º C to 2º C in just two minutes with no electricity,…

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…