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Multimedia news and information from the European Space Agency including human space flight, space science, Earth observation, ground control and mission operations. Current deep-space missi...
Herschel, the largest telescope ever launched, will study objects within and outside our Galaxy. It will be able to peer through clouds of g...
Data on the climate and vegetation cover collected by ESA’s Earth observation satellites are proving to be an invaluable tool to fight food...
On 25 and 26 November in The Hague, Ministers in charge of space activities within the now 18 ESA Member States and Canada meet to define th...
Since the very first satellites carrying scientific instruments were launched, our understanding of the cosmos has improved. The Sun is stud...
The successful docking of the European Columbus module and the launch of the Automated Transfer Vehicle have opened a new era for Europe’s p...
Relying largely on satellite data, the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme will provide accurate and timely data...
The European Space Agency is developing a network of satellites – the European Data Relay Satellite System – that will use geostationary sat...
After being launched into space, the IXV - or Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle - will return to earth as if from a low-Earth orbit mission,...
In May 2009, Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne will fly together with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astrona...
On the island of Sriharikota, 150 kilometres north of Chennai, India has based its launch centre SHAR, the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, named...
The first venture between India and Europe took place in the 1980s. In 1981, Europe's Ariane 3 rocket launched into space India's first geos...
The Indian launch vehicle PSLV is now at its launch station at Shriharikota - nowadays Chennai - a small island 100 km from Madras in the Ba...
Since July 2008 the GOCE Earth Explorer satellite has been at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. ESA’s Gravity field and steady sta...
Two de-orbit manoeuvres will lower ESA's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle. Break up of the satellite is expected at an altitude of 65...
Steins is Rosetta's first nominal scientific target. Based upon ground-based observations, it has been classified as an 'E-type' asteroid, c...
Asteroid Steins belongs to the rare, largely unknown intermediate E-class, very bright and probably with a much-weathered surface. Steins' o...
ESA's GOCE mission is dedicated to measuring the Earth's gravity field and modelling the geoid with unprecedented accuracy and spatial resol...
The search for water in space has been quite successful; traces of ice have been found on Mars and water vapour has been found in several pl...
Hubble has been serviced and upgraded four times. The fifth and final tune-up is scheduled for October 2008. After this, it is expected to b...
Thousands of people from the 17 countries that make up ESA responded to this dream of becoming an astronaut, but what are the qualities ESA...
For more than 17 years, the joint ESA/NASA mission Ulysses studied the heliosphere (the sphere of influence of the Sun) and our local inters...
The Galileo constellation will be the world's most reliable global navigation system. The technologies that have been developed to achieve s...
To land, first, on the Moon and, later, on Mars - in the 2030 timeframe - scientists need a mix of human and robotic missions to know in adv...
Earlier this week, ESA signed a contract at the Berlin Airshow's Space Pavilion to build the EarthCARE satellite - the Agency's 'Cloud, Aero...
Radar sounders aboard ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance orbiters have already detected ice deposits deep underground. Now, a...
From an exceptionally low orbital altitude, GOCE (Gravity Field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) will measure global variations...
The principle is simple: a satellite-tracking antenna on the roof of the train ensures a permanent link with a telecommunications satellite....
Technology spin-offs from European space programmes presented at the SpaceTransfer08 event in the Innovations Market for Research and Develo...
The advantage of using leading edge-technologies from space in other sectors, and vice versa, at the forum 'Innovation from space exploratio...
The second Galileo satellite, GIOVE-B, is equipped with the most accurate clock ever to be flown in space. GIOVE B will be launched from Bai...
The European Union and the European Space Agency are taking to implement Galileo and achieve the full deployment of the first civil satellit...
GIOVE-B will be a satellite very close to the satellites planned for the operational Galileo system to be deployed by 2013. In particular it...
Jules Verne ATV's laser rendezvous sensor will emit a signal and receive a reflection back from the International Space Station. Engineers a...
On 14 March, ATV successfully demonstrated the crucial Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre, or CAM, in which an automated system successfully took...
A number of missions have spent time exploring these unknown worlds in the solar system. In January 2005, the European lander, Huygens stunn...
Provided by Thales Alenia Space in Italy, Jules Verne ATV’s Integrated Cargo Carrier is about half the volume of ESA’s Columbus laboratory....
The 48 cubic meter pressurised cargo module gives the ATV a capacity three times greater than existing space freighters. Its racks can be pa...
From 1998, the International Space Station has required regular visits - to date 58 dockings - of the Shuttles, Soyuz crew, and Progress sup...
Equipped with its own propulsion and navigation system, the unmanned ATV "space truck" - dubbed 'Jules Verne' - has a sophisticated automati...
Three-quarters of the globe is covered in water and its influence is felt everywhere. It’s not only oceans, rivers and lakes that affect the...
Before each manoeuvre, the mission control team at ESA's Space Operations Centre simulates all aspects of the upcoming operation and practic...
The European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) receives data from deep-space ground stations worldwide. The huge volume of data that comes back...
Radio telescopes must be very large in size to achieve the same resolution as optical telescopes. The only way to do this is by coupling two...
The Santa Maria station (SMA) tracking footprint covers a large portion of the Atlantic ocean. The first launch to be tracked from Santa Mar...
The conference began at 08:30 with breakfast, followed at 09:00 by a press briefing to review the Agency’s activities in 2007 and look ahead...
Today, the specialists at the European Space Agency's Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands are able to confirm that the GIOVE-A...
Harmony, also known as Node 2, was delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) by the STS-120 Shuttle mission last October. After STS...
This project is co-funded by the European Space Agency as part of a programme dedicated to telemedicine. The aim is to test a satellite comm...
Venus Express is the first mission dedicated to the study of the composition and dynamics of the planet’s atmosphere. The European orbiter h...
Columbus, with its planned operational lifetime of ten years, is Europe's first laboratory for long-term research in space conditions. Scien...