After the relative quiet of the long dark winter months, the Arctic will be a tad busier over the coming weeks as numerous researchers descend on this harsh, yet fragile environment. Their aim is not ...
With liftoff just few days away, the next Sentinel satellite for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme is positioned in the launch tower at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.Carr...
By using galaxies as giant gravitational lenses, an international group of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made an independent measurement of how fast the Universe is expand...
The sheer observing power of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is rarely better illustrated than in an image such as this. This glowing pink nebula, named NGC 248, is located in the Small Magellanic...
With Europe’s Galileo satnav constellation soon to provide initial services, #esa is looking further ahead: its next-stage navigation research programme received strong backing during last week’s Coun...
about 2000 Europeans helped to shape the future of space by taking part in a world first: the Citizens’ Debate on Space for Europe.ESA organised the event to gather opinions and ideas to help develop ...
Each interplanetary mission that #esa flies carries a multitude of instruments. These spacecraft are headed to pretty inaccessible deep space destinations, so the aim is always to survey as many diffe...
Clean Space is coming up to its fourth birthday and even if we’re not always been thought of as a technologybased programme, of course we are: seeking to redesign the space products to ensure that we...
It was a literal property crash: multiple homes in the Cármenes del Mar resort on the south coast of Spain were engulfed in a landslide, leaving families homeless. But satellite archives offer early ...
An Ariane 5 rocket has launched four additional Galileo satellites, accelerating deployment of the new satellite navigation system.The Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, lifted off from Europe’s Space...
It’s easy to take spacecraft communications for granted. Yet the art and science involved in sending commands to a satellite and receiving data back is of paramount importance. Without highly skilled...
Down on Earth, everyone knows to remove batteries from electrical goods before recycling. When it comes to disposing of satellites in orbit, the same principle holds true: charged batteries or leftove...
Europe’s next four Galileo navigation satellites are together on their dispenser atop the Ariane 5 launcher due to launch them next Thursday from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.Having been attach...
The international iceberg patrol service set up after the sinking of the Titanic is now able to track drifting ice from orbit more swiftly through ESA-backed cloud computing.The icebergs drifting in t...
At a ceremony held in Vatican City today, #esa and the Vatican Apostolic Library have agreed to continue their years-long cooperation on the preservation, management and exploitation of archived infor...
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