13 March 2015
New rockets on the scene: ESA approves Ariane 6, Vega-C
The Council of Ministers of the European Space Agency (ESA) approved development of a new Ariane 6 rocket yesterday. As ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain stressed, Ariane 6 is ...
31 July 2015
New Rosetta data on 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko: from complex molecules to comet erosion
Data analysis from the Rosetta mission is giving scientists at the European Space Agency a lot to ponder. The historic comet landing on 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko last November has given humanity an unprecedented ...
14 August 2015
Fun in the sun with Rosetta: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at perihelion
... images of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko at its closest approach to the sun have just been published by the European Space Agency. Amazing things – including jets and other outburst events – happen to comets at perihelion (the point in their orbit...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
...operations and downstream services, estimated by the European Commission to be worth about €52 billion to our economy, from an annual public investment of €8 billion (combining ESA, EC and national space agency spending). And novel technology is what...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
..., the least explored terrestrial planet in our solar system. It is a joint project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to study the planet and its environment The mission has been named...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
...the-art and to maintain the spirit of the ECSS - which means maintaining a strong collaboration between the European space agencies and industry - in the years to come. What is Europe doing in terms of interoperability and how is it interacting with...
