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Space News September 5, 2016

ESA found Philae on comet

Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet…

Space News August 22, 2016

Proba-3, can view the sun’s corona without bothering about shadows

Every 18 months or so, scientists and sensation-seekers gather at set points on Earth’s surface, to await awe-inspiring solar eclipses. The Moon briefly blocks the…

General Aviation News, Space News August 2, 2016

ESA commits to next stage of UK revolutionary rocket engine

The Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine, SABRE, is a unique engine designed to use atmospheric air in the early part of its flight to orbit before…

Space News August 1, 2016

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…

Space News June 7, 2016

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…

Space News May 24, 2016

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…

General Aviation News, Space News May 20, 2016

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…

Space News April 20, 2016

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…

Space News March 15, 2016

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…

Space News March 9, 2016

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…

Space News February 15, 2016

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…

Space News January 5, 2016

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….

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