24 June 2016
Will Brexit Lead to Spexit?
... program, including that of Britain's relationship with the European Space Agency. Over three quarters of the funds Britain spends on space programs is sent to ESA, which is not a European Union organization. As noted by ESA Director-General Johann...
13 September 2017
New constellation to reshape Earth observation market
... (EDRS), the SpaceDataHighway was developed through a public-private partnership (PPP) between Airbus and the European Space Agency (ESA). As such, Airbus’s Pléiades Neo satellites will be the first commercial constellation to be equipped with this...
29 November 2019
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget
At a two-day ministerial meeting held in Seville, Spain this week, the European Space Agency’s member states approved the most ambitious plan to date by agreeing to provide nearly 12.5 billion euros ($13.8 billion) for ...
06 January 2020
New evidence suggests that Venus has active volcanoes
... at the time. Over a decade later, the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Venus Express orbiter took up the mantle... more about the planet’s atmosphere and surface conditions. The European Space Agency (Esa) is evaluating a Venus mission, and NASA was...
15 June 2020
Green dayglow detected at Mars for the first time
... now. Using the ultraviolet and visible spectrometer (UVIS) instrument on board the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), a team of European astronomers have now spotted this elusive green line dayglow emission on Mars. Predicted...
13 January 2021
Portugal envision building a spaceport on the Azores islands
... that are available to Europe, this will again improve the European independent access to space,” Costa said. Portugal has been a member of the European Space Agency for more than 20 years and its Santa Maria Island in the Azores archipelago...
