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...
09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
... the help of engineers from companies spread throughout Europe such as Germany, France, Spain, Italy as well as the European Space Agency (ESA), over a month long period in December last year. The tests are part of the...
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 ...
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...
18 August 2021
New study sheds light on Solar System heavy metal problem
..., researchers in the US and Austria have used a number instruments including the European Southern Observatory VISTA telescope, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, the ESA’s Planck satellite, and NASA’s Compton Gamma Ray...
