April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
The new Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), Austrian Josef Aschbacher, is committed to building a more cooperative relationship between the EU and ESA on space programmes. Speaking exclusively to Clive Simpson, ROOM’s Editor-in-...
17 February 2021
ESA is looking for new European astronauts
...European astronauts to join humankind’s greatest adventure, a journey of discovery for the benefit of our planet. In addition to the vacancy notice to recruit new members of ESA’s astronaut corps, the agency... to the International space station on a ...
11 April 2017
ESA to supply cameras for Russian lunar mission
... with a device also supplied by ESA. "We hope, at least as of today all agreements have been reached, that the European Space Agency will take part in lunar research," said director general of the NPO Lavochkin research and industrial association...
18 June 2018
ESA Council backs Lunar gateway venture
The European Space Agency and its Member States have laid out plans as to where the organisation sees itself heading in the next few years and a stake in the Lunar gateway is high on its list of priorities. Using its European Exploration...
03 June 2019
CEN and CENELEC to hold workshop on standards in space applications
... successful and efficient: CEN and CENELEC have a working agreement with ECSS (European Cooperation for Space Standardisation), an initiative by ESA (European Space Agency). As part of this agreement, through the Joint Technical Committee 5 (JTC...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
The European Space Agency (ESA) have teamed up with Airbus to design a new rover that will head to Mars and retrieve the ...
