The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it…
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Launch of the ATV pushed to 2007
Today, about 98 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…
Greenland Ice Sheet Growth
Researchers have utilised more than a decade’s worth of data from radar altimeters on ESA’s ERS…
Calcutta from Space
This colourful view of West Bengal in India, centred on the megacity of Kolkata (Calcutta), is…
Five years of ISS crews
Just over five years ago the Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft was launched into orbit. There had been…
Maldives from Space.
ESA’s Proba microsatellite takes a close-up view of some of the 1192 coral islands of the…
Tracking desertification via Satellites
With a quarter of the Earth’s land surface affected, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification…
Tracking Desertification
With a quarter of the Earth’s land surface affected, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification…
The Amazon from Space
This rare, almost cloudless Envisat view of part of the northeast coast of South America stretches…
Space improves life in the desert
An innovative tent, developed with the use of space concepts, is now on display at the…