06 April 2016
Crude oil launched into space today to study Earth's depths
... in Crude Oil experiment is a collaboration between ESA, China’s National Space Science Centre, France’s Total...8 km underground,” explains Antonio Verga, overseeing the project for ESA. “Imagine a packet of cornflakes – over time the smaller...
14 April 2016
All systems go as ExoMars sends back its first image
... new and sophisticated spacecraft,” says Peter Schmitz, ESA’s Spacecraft Operations Manager. With its sophisticated sensors,...the arrows indicate the offset star positions. Image Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS “The initial switch-on went quite smoothly ...
17 June 2016
ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter Sends Back First Mars Image
...Then, in 2020, a Roscosmos-built lander will deliver the ESA-built ExoMars Rover to the Martian surface. Mission operations and...Center in Italy. Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli (Copyright: ESA/ATG medialab) While the Trace Gas Orbiter had begun ...
29 September 2016
Rosetta on the way to its final resting place on Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA The closest Rosetta had ever been to the surface was ...be possible to collect or return any additional data," the ESA said. "The unique measurements obtained during this final descent will...
30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
... NEOs is available to European researchers and the public alike. “At ESA, we want to observe the sky in order to find out...diger Jehn, co-manager of near-Earth object activities under ESA's Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme. Further talks are...
April 2020
European spaceports compete for recognition and business
..., a joint initiative of the Portuguese government and the regional authorities of the Azores, with technical support from ESA. The UK has been contemplating a spaceport for vertical launch to orbit in various guises for decades - an orbital spaceport...
