25 January 2021
Unique six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
... going around TOI-178's central star in the same orbit. However, after using data from the European Space Agency’s CHEOPS satellite, alongside the ground-based ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s VLT and the NGTS and SPECULOOS...
21 November 2018
Jezero Crater chosen as landing site for Mars 2020 mission
... collect rock and soil samples and store them in a cache on the planet's surface. NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are studying future mission concepts to retrieve the samples and return them to Earth, so this landing site...
20 July 2020
Satellite technology supports project to replace soy in livestock feed
... animal feed alternative to soy. DryGro’s pioneering project which is under a programme of and funded by the European Space Agency, is utilising a floating macrophyte commonly known as Lemna or duckweed, and turning it into a high protein animal...
22 April 2016
Arianespace's Soyuz Launch Scheduled for Later Today
... With a liftoff mass of 2,164 kg., this Thales Alenia Space-built platform will join the space segment of Copernicus - the European Commission's program with the European Space Agency (ESA). Sentinel-1B is designed to provide a comprehensive solution...
13 March 2020
ExoMars launch postposed until 2022
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to ... and schedule. With due consideration of the recommendations provided by European and Russian Inspectors General, ExoMars experts have concluded that tests necessary...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been managing an Earth Observation...) launched in 2002. The largest Earth observing satellite ever built by any space agency, it was an advanced polar-orbiting satellite that provided measurements of the atmosphere...
