February 2017
Growing space agency dilemma
... Space Safety (IAASS), the Association of Space Explorers, the B612 Foundation, NASA’s JPL cosmic hazards programmes, ESA’s Earthguard programme, the UN COPUOS Working Group on the Long Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities, the International...
October 2017
Cassini observations open up Saturn’s atmosphere
... most successful planetary missions of all time. The joint NASA/ESA/ASI mission launched the careers of hundreds of scientists (myself... composition as it falls. To this end, scientists at both ESA and NASA have bold plans to achieve this goal in the ...
07 June 2016
A green light for the LISA Pathfinder mission
...large scale gravitational wave detector in the future." said ESA LISA Pathfinder project scientist Paul McNamara at the tele-... said Fabio Favata, Head of the Coordination Office at ESA. Gravitational waves are the echoes of cosmic events that...
19 October 2016
Success for TGO orbit insertion and its looking good for Schiaparelli too
... successful. Scientists using the the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India and a fleet of NASA and ESA orbiters around Mars have all been listening keenly to Schiaparelli’s on-board UHF (ultra-high frequency) radio...
18 December 2017
Prometheus to power future European launchers
.... “Prometheus will power Europe's future launchers, forging a path of continuous improvement in competitiveness,” said Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation, who signed the contract along with Alain Charmeau, CEO at ArianeGroup...
11 February 2019
Earth's magnetic north pole is on the move and its going fast
... prone to drifting on a regular basis, new updates from ESA’s swarm mission show that the magnetic north pole is shifting ... and the British Geological Survey track its changes, ESA’s Swarm constellation has also been tracking the magnetic north...
