23 June 2021
ESA and EU embark on a new space programme
... support new initiatives especially in the domain of secure connectivity, research and development and space commercialisation, where ESA will play a key role, also offering new funding opportunities for entrepreneurship. The agreement signed today...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
...wave observatory, and the Clearspace active removal mission. ESA’s ambitious mission that will be humankind’s first ... the experience can be used as a planetary defence technique. ESA Ministers also secured a smooth transition to the next generation of...
04 September 2019
A near miss as ESA and SpaceX satellites nearly collide
... decision to implement the manoeuvre was made on Sunday, and the commands were sent to the spacecraft from ESA’s mission control centre in Germany. On Monday morning, to avert a potential head-on collision, Aeolus triggered a series of thruster burns...
20 January 2020
ESA facility begins producing oxygen out of simulated moon dust
...with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant, Lomax said. Her work, which is supported through ESA’s Networking and Partnering Initiative, harnessing advanced academic research for space applications, has its roots in molten...
10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... the potential to disrupt everyday life should we be in the firing line of a powerful solar storm,” says Günther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science. "Solar Orbiter is going to do amazing things. Combined with the other recently launched NASA missions...
31 March 2021
Apply now to become an ESA astronaut
...As well as recruiting new members to our astronaut corps, ESA has also issued a vacancy notice for the ‘Parastronaut’ ... 2021 and all applications must be submitted via the ESA Careers websitewithin these eight weeks. Following this deadline, ...
