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 July 2016
ESA open new laboratory in UK to test applications for future space missions
...) in Harwell, Oxfordshire and directly adjacent to ESA’s UK facility, this latest technical laboratory will ... is only likely to increase. It is therefore no surprise that ESA’s new laboratory will delve into this technology further by assessing the ...
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...
08 February 2019
ESA's new Mars rover has a new name
...’ from over 36 000 entries submitted by citizens from all ESA Member States, following a competition launched by the UK Space ... part of the ExoMars programme, a joint endeavour between ESA and the Russian State Space Corporation, Roscosmos. What’s ...
