A TIGER Initiative offer to make ESA satellite data available for monitoring African water resources sparked…
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Sunny Outlook for European weather forecasting
The contract for a fourth Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) spacecraft was signed today, ensuring continuity of…
Automated Transfer Vehicle
Several European and American astronauts belong to the project management team of the Automated Transfer Vehicle…
Travelling to Mars
Manned missions beyond the Moon are no longer wild dreams. For example, the objective of ESA’s…
Cassini-Huygens art contest
What lies beneath the hazy atmosphere that envelops Saturn’s moon, Titan? Is the surface of the…
Revealing Titan’s surface
These pictures were created from a sequence of images acquired by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft’s cameras…
Successful Titan fly-by
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft sent back pictures and information after making the closest-ever fly-by of Saturn’s…
Digital Libraries for science
Spacecraft constantly scan the Earth, creating hundreds of gigabytes of new data products daily. Working with…
Typhoon Songda in 3-D
This three-dimensional image shows the shape of Typhoon Songda, which recently struck the Japanese homeland. This…
Smart Satellite that runs itself
Today sees ESA’s first ever microsatellite complete three years of successful operations. The size of a…