At the invitation of ESA and CNES, the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is holding its…
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The Risk From Near-Earth Objects
On 9 July 2004, the Near-Earth Object Mission Advisory Panel recommended that ESA place a high…
Saturn’s moon Iapetus
Below is a link to a ‘raw’, or unprocessed, image of Saturn’s ‘yin-yang’ moon Iapetus taken…
Telemedicine via satellite
ESA is one step nearer to establishing a Telemedicine via Satellite Programme thanks to a constructive…
Night of the Astronauts
As part of German Space Day activities, ESA is organising a ‘gala’ night on 17 September…
EADS Space Transportation
On 13 July ESA and EADS Space Transportation signed a 1 billion Euro contract which allows…
Northern rim of Martian Hellas basin
These images of the rim of the Hellas basin on Mars were obtained by the High…
Listening to Vega
On a humid day in June, with a temperature similar to that at Europe’s Spaceport in…
EGNOS, the first European satellite navigation system
Italy takes on a prominent role in European satellite navigation with the opening on 13 July…
Titan’s surface revealed
Piercing the layer of smog enshrouding Titan, these images from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft reveal an…