Space is certainly a cold place, but spacecraft have to face extremely high temperatures when they…
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Jules Verne– Europes first Automated Transfer Vehicle
Today, about 90 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europes first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…
ESA on the trail of the earliest stars
Somewhere in the distant, old Universe, a population of stars hide undetected. They were the first…
Venus Express
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Astrium will sign, on Tuesday 28 January, at ESA HQ…
Satellite Broadband service, a boost for rural Ireland
The South West Regional Authority in Ireland has secured funding from ESA to carry out trials…
Debate on European Space Policy
Today in Brussels, European Research Commissioner, Philippe Busquin, introduced the Green Paper on EU Space Policy.…
ESA’s new challenge with Rosetta
After the initial disappointment of postponing the Rosetta mission, ESA’s Director of Science David Southwood expressed…
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…