Overview of ESA activities in 2012
First launch of Vega Europe’s family of launchers will welcome its smallest member, Vega. Location: CSG, Europe’s Spaceport (French Guiana) Date: 9 February BepiColombo presentation…
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Soyuz – Galileo IOV launch delayed
Following an anomaly detected during fueling of the Soyuz launcher’s third stage, the final countdown has been interrupted. Soyuz and its two Galileo IOV satellites,…
Watch online: Soyuz – Galileo IOV launch
Soyuz VS01, the first Soyuz flight from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, was transferred to the launch zone on 14 October 2011. The vehicle was…
European experts follow satellite reentry
ESA closely monitored the reentry on 24 September of the UARS observatory satellite. The Agency’s Space Debris Office worked with NASA and international partners in…
46th successful launch in a row of the Astrium-built Ariane 5
Ariane 5, the European launch vehicle developed and manufactured by Astrium, today successfully lifted-off from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. For François Auque,…
Astrium Galileo satellites accepted by ESA
Kourou, 12 September 2011 First and second Astrium-built Galileo satellites successfully pass ESA’s technical acceptance review Two IOV satellites set to be launched on…
André Kuipers makes a PromISSe
All the pieces are coming together for the next long mission by a European astronaut. Now it has a name and logo. ESA today revealed…
Ariane 5’s fourth launch of 2011
Early this morning, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Astra-1N and…
New uses for Space Station
For more than a decade, the International Space Station has been a busy orbiting research lab. But it could soon take on a new role…
Cassini samples the icy spray of Enceladus’ water plumes
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has directly sampled the water plumes jetting into space from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The findings from these fly-throughs are the strongest…
Johannes Kepler has left the Station
Europe’s Johannes Kepler ATV cargo ferry undocked from the International Space Station today at 14:46:30 GMT (16:46:30 CEST). The craft is now leaving the orbital…
AMS: ready to discover the particle universe
The largest and most complex scientific instrument yet to be fitted to the International Space Station was installed today. Taken into space by the Space…
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