17 November 2020
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
...Spaceport in French Guiana. It is designed to lift between 300 kg and 1.5 tonnes of payload depending on the orbit and altitude. ESA’s upcoming Vega-C, a more powerful version of Vega, will offer an extra 700 kg of capacity and enlarged volume within...
28 November 2016
UK capital investment company initiates pioneering space technologies fund
... fill the funding gap that often exists when a space company or start-up first enters the market. ESA’s Senior Advisor to the Directorate of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications, Amnon Ginati, who sits on the Seraphim Advisory...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
...is our piece of Europe in space. It’s the laboratory of ESA and here we have various items of science equipment for different ...are put into a little portable container called Kubik (the ESA incubator-centrifuge) which stores them for a set amount of...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
...Icy moon Explorer (JUICE), comissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA). Scheduled for launch in 2022, JUICE is expected to arrive in... as the moon passed in front of Jupiter. NASA/ESA/W Sparks Water vapour plumes The existence of cryovolcanism with ...
14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
... distributed and move across our Galaxy,” said Alvaro Giménez, ESA’s Director of Science. “Gaia is at the forefront of astrometry... year of operations,” says Timo Prusti, Gaia project scientist at ESA. The map (shown above), based on the first year of...
13 March 2020
ExoMars launch postposed until 2022
...mission to study the Red Planet to 2022. The joint ESA-Roscosmos project team evaluated all the activities needed for an ...ultra-clean zone. In the frame of a dedicated meeting, ESA and Roscosmos heads Jan Wörner and Dmitry Rogozin agreed that further...
