After the initial disappointment of postponing the Rosetta mission, ESA’s Director of Science David Southwood expressed…
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ESA payloads feature on Space Shuttle research mission
European scientists will be ‘turning off’ the effects of gravity during the STS-107 Space Shuttle research…
Rosetta – a comet ride to solve planetary mysteries
In 2011, ESA’s Rosetta will be the first mission to orbit and land on a comet.…
Students Learning about space and agriculture
Today’s children may be whiz kids on computers but many know little about the origins of…
ESA 2003 events calendar
In 2003 ESA will be involved in a series of international events. The major ones are…
Bringing the coldness of space to the Sahara
Cooling is key in the Sahara Desert, especially when you’re in the middle of it, trying…
Space technologies to help Pescarolo Sport team in Dakar Rally
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Pescarolo Sport have concluded a technology partnership agreement under which…
Integral’s first look at the gamma-ray Universe
ESA’s gamma-ray satellite, Integral, is fully operational. Integral’s first ground-breaking images of the high-energy Universe were…
Successful Ariane launch
Just after midnight on Dec 17-18 an Ariane 4 soared into the sky above Kourou in…
MSG-1 delivers key information about the Earths climate
The GERB instrument onboard the MSG-1 (Meteosat Second Generation) satellite took its first measurements, Thursday 12…