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Space News April 26, 2012

ESA contracts Astrium UK to build Solar Orbiter

ESA has awarded the contract to build its next-generation Sun explorer to Astrium UK. Solar Orbiter will investigate how the Sun creates and controls the…

Space News April 16, 2012

Designing the interplanetary web

Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in…

Space News April 10, 2012

Astrium awarded European Space Agency (ESA) contract to continue development of the Ariane 5 ME

Worth €112 million, this contract will enable the design of the Ariane 5 ME’s new sub-systems Ariane 5 ME will decrease by 20% costs per…

Space News March 21, 2012

ATV Edoardo Amaldi set for liftoff

ESA’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle, Edoardo Amaldi, is ready for launch to the International Space Station. ESA’s formal Launch Readiness Review on Monday revealed no…

Space News March 20, 2012

Europe’s next weather satellite gears up for launch

Following the safe arrival of the MetOp-B weather satellite in Kazakhstan, the sophisticated craft is now being carefully assembled and tested before launch on 23…

Space News March 5, 2012

New target launch date for ATV-3

The launch of ESA’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) is targeted at 23 March, with a liftoff scheduled for 4:31 UT (5:31 CET). A routine…

Space News February 29, 2012

ATV-3 set to provide ESA’s annual service to Space Station

ESA’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ferry, Edoardo Amaldi, is ready for launch on an Ariane 5 to the International Space Station on 9 March…

Space News February 28, 2012

André’s PromISSe mission extended on Space Station

ESA astronaut André Kuipers will stay on the International Space Station for more than a month longer than originally planned. In addition to his normal…

Space News February 16, 2012

Fifth ATV named after Georges Lemaître

ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATVs) are an essential contribution by Europe to running the International Space Station. Naming the fifth after Belgian scientist Georges Lemaître…

Space News February 13, 2012

ESA’s new Vega launcher scores success on maiden flight

ESA’s new launch vehicle, is ready to operate alongside the Ariane 5 and Soyuz launchers after a successful qualification flight this morning from Europe’s Spaceport…

Space News February 8, 2012

Europe’s ATV space ferry set for launch to Space Station

Fuel, water, oxygen, air and most of the dry cargo have been loaded into ESA’s third Automated Transfer Vehicle, Edoardo Amaldi, as the 9 March…

Space News February 6, 2012

ESA’s Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean

ESA’s Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean ESA’s Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of…

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