Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B
While most of us may be looking forward to spending some time in the sunshine this summer, the Sentinel-2B satellite is being subjected to the…
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Lisa Pathfinder exceeds expectations
ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the technology needed to build a space-based gravitational wave observatory. Results from only two months of science operations show…
ESA: 14 Galileo satellites now in orbit
Named for the astronomer who pinpointed Earth’s true position in the Solar System, the Galileo satellite navigation system that will help Europe find its way…
The Sentinel-1A radar satellite has detected a potential oil slick of EgyptAir flight MS804
The Sentinel-1A radar satellite has detected a potential oil slick in the eastern Mediterranean Sea – in the same area where EgyptAir flight MS804 disappeared…
Sentinel-1B_in_position_for_liftoff
With just two days to liftoff, the next Sentinel for Europe’s environmental monitoring programme in now poised high in the launch tower at Europe’s Spaceport…
Exomars on its way to solve the red planets mysteries
The first of two joint ESA-Roscosmos missions to Mars has begun a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, where it will address unsolved mysteries of…
Ariane 5 launcher racks up 71st success in a row for Airbus Defence and Space
Ariane 5 has been successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, for the 71st time in a row, confirming the reliability and sophistication of the European…
All dressed up with somewhere to go
Yesterday, a ‘team of teams’ working at ESA’s control centre conducted a final rehearsal for tomorrow’s launch of Sentinel-3A. The rehearsal was the culmination of…
Tim Peak set for SpaceWalk
ESA astronaut Tim Peake and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra will exit the International Space Station next week to repair a power unit on the outside….
European space agencies inaugurate altered-gravity aircraft
France’s space agency CNES and the German aerospace centre DLR inaugurated the Airbus A310 ZERO-G refitted for altered gravity by running 12 scientific experiments…
Zero-G A310
The refitted Airbus A310 aircraft is on the runway and ready for its first flight for weightless research next week. Although the aircraft can…
ESA’s planetary defence test set for 2020
If an asteroid were spotted headed towards Earth, what could humanity do about it? ESA’s latest mission is part of a larger international effort…
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