September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
...-CARES consortium is composed of planetary science researchers and curators, biosafety specialists, and engineers, from all parts of Europe (www.euro-cares.eu). There have been a few previous studies on curation facilities, which have typically been...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
...political commitment.” Once operational, Vigil will feed into Europe’s space weather services and complement national forecasting centres ... If the ESA Ministerial meeting delivers in November, Europe will be on course to launch its first operational ...
March 2026
From dependency to resilience - Europe’s moment in space traffic management
... clear economic and security benefits for other regions, including Europe. We have seen this pattern before in other sectors....data at the core of effective STM, already exists within Europe and allied nations. The coming months will reveal whether the...
14 July 2022
Europe's Vega-C rocket makes successful debut flight
... was potential for a number of things to go wrong.” In the event, flight VV21 eventually lifted off smoothly from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:13 Kourou local time (15:13 CEST) on a mission lasting two hours and 15 minutes from launch...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
...? Space applications have become an essential part of the European infrastructure and today provide key services for Europe’s citizens Firstly, we need to make the distinction between upstream standards (used for design, development, launching and...
23 May 2016
Soyuz’ latest mission for Europe ready for launch tomorrow
...following a 3 hour plus ballistic phase. Galileo is Europe’s initiative for a state-of-the-art global satellite navigation...the full system will consist of control centres located in Europe, and a network of uplink stations and sensor stations ...
