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ESApod, audio and video from space
Multimedia news and information from the European Space Agency including human space flight, space science, Earth observation, ground control and mission operations. Current deep-space missions include Mars Express, Venus Express and Rosetta, Europe's comet chaser. Produced by the ESA Communications...
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Herschel and Planck
Herschel, the largest telescope ever launched, will study objects within and outside our Galaxy. It will be able to peer through clouds of gas and dus...
Food and satellites: Keeping an eye on food production
Data on the climate and vegetation cover collected by ESA’s Earth observation satellites are proving to be an invaluable tool to fight food scarcity....
Ministerial conference: Interview with ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain
On 25 and 26 November in The Hague, Ministers in charge of space activities within the now 18 ESA Member States and Canada meet to define the role of...
ESA Science: past and future
Since the very first satellites carrying scientific instruments were launched, our understanding of the cosmos has improved. The Sun is studied to the...
ATV, the next step
The successful docking of the European Columbus module and the launch of the Automated Transfer Vehicle have opened a new era for Europe’s presence in...
GMES – video news release
Relying largely on satellite data, the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme will provide accurate and timely data to better...
The European Data Relay Satellite System – EDRS
The European Space Agency is developing a network of satellites – the European Data Relay Satellite System – that will use geostationary satellites to...
IXV: learning to come back from Space
After being launched into space, the IXV - or Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle - will return to earth as if from a low-Earth orbit mission, testing b...
Frank De Winne prepares for new mission
In May 2009, Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne will fly together with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert...
SHAR: the Indian launch base
On the island of Sriharikota, 150 kilometres north of Chennai, India has based its launch centre SHAR, the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, named after the...
India – Europe cooperation
The first venture between India and Europe took place in the 1980s. In 1981, Europe's Ariane 3 rocket launched into space India's first geostationary...
Video overview of the Chandrayaan-1 mission
The Indian launch vehicle PSLV is now at its launch station at Shriharikota - nowadays Chennai - a small island 100 km from Madras in the Bay of Benga...
GOCE launch campaign at Plesetsk
Since July 2008 the GOCE Earth Explorer satellite has been at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. ESA’s Gravity field and steady state Ocean C...
ATV Jules Verne: Mission accomplished
Two de-orbit manoeuvres will lower ESA's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle. Break up of the satellite is expected at an altitude of 65 km. The cr...
Rosetta
Steins is Rosetta's first nominal scientific target. Based upon ground-based observations, it has been classified as an 'E-type' asteroid, composed ma...
Rosetta: rendezvous with an asteroid
Asteroid Steins belongs to the rare, largely unknown intermediate E-class, very bright and probably with a much-weathered surface. Steins' orbit was o...
GOCE
ESA's GOCE mission is dedicated to measuring the Earth's gravity field and modelling the geoid with unprecedented accuracy and spatial resolution. GOC...
Water
The search for water in space has been quite successful; traces of ice have been found on Mars and water vapour has been found in several places in ou...
Hubble servicing mission and the next generation
Hubble has been serviced and upgraded four times. The fifth and final tune-up is scheduled for October 2008. After this, it is expected to be in fit w...
New astronauts
Thousands of people from the 17 countries that make up ESA responded to this dream of becoming an astronaut, but what are the qualities ESA is looking...
The Ulysses legacy
For more than 17 years, the joint ESA/NASA mission Ulysses studied the heliosphere (the sphere of influence of the Sun) and our local interstellar nei...
Galileo, time and space
The Galileo constellation will be the world's most reliable global navigation system. The technologies that have been developed to achieve such precis...
ILA Space Pavilion: Space exploration in the future
To land, first, on the Moon and, later, on Mars - in the 2030 timeframe - scientists need a mix of human and robotic missions to know in advance what...
Earth Observation highlights at ILA Space Pavilion
Earlier this week, ESA signed a contract at the Berlin Airshow's Space Pavilion to build the EarthCARE satellite - the Agency's 'Cloud, Aerosol and Ra...
Traces of Martian life: the search continues
Radar sounders aboard ESA's Mars Express and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance orbiters have already detected ice deposits deep underground. Now, after a ten...
GOCE preparing for launch
From an exceptionally low orbital altitude, GOCE (Gravity Field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) will measure global variations in the Ear...
Broadband internet via satellite aboard Thalys trains
The principle is simple: a satellite-tracking antenna on the roof of the train ensures a permanent link with a telecommunications satellite. The link...
Technology spin-offs from European space programmes
Technology spin-offs from European space programmes presented at the SpaceTransfer08 event in the Innovations Market for Research and Development sect...
Innovation from space exploration and technology transfer
The advantage of using leading edge-technologies from space in other sectors, and vice versa, at the forum 'Innovation from space exploration and tech...
Galileo - the atomic clock
The second Galileo satellite, GIOVE-B, is equipped with the most accurate clock ever to be flown in space. GIOVE B will be launched from Baikonur on 2...
Galileo - the way forward
The European Union and the European Space Agency are taking to implement Galileo and achieve the full deployment of the first civil satellite navigati...
GIOVE-B
GIOVE-B will be a satellite very close to the satellites planned for the operational Galileo system to be deployed by 2013. In particular it will carr...
ATV: Closing in on the target
Jules Verne ATV's laser rendezvous sensor will emit a signal and receive a reflection back from the International Space Station. Engineers at the ATV...
ATV orbital rehearsals for ISS docking
On 14 March, ATV successfully demonstrated the crucial Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre, or CAM, in which an automated system successfully took over cont...
Moons
A number of missions have spent time exploring these unknown worlds in the solar system.
In January 2005, the European lander, Huygens stunned...
Jules Verne ATV's space cargo
Provided by Thales Alenia Space in Italy, Jules Verne ATV’s Integrated Cargo Carrier is about half the volume of ESA’s Columbus laboratory.
Arou...
ATV: A new generation space vehicle
The 48 cubic meter pressurised cargo module gives the ATV a capacity three times greater than existing space freighters. Its racks can be packed with...
ATV: Rendezvous in space
From 1998, the International Space Station has required regular visits - to date 58 dockings - of the Shuttles, Soyuz crew, and Progress supply ships....
ATV Control Centre readies for Europe's first-ever automated docking
Equipped with its own propulsion and navigation system, the unmanned ATV "space truck" - dubbed 'Jules Verne' - has a sophisticated automatic navigati...
SMOS: Helping Europe respond to climate change
Three-quarters of the globe is covered in water and its influence is felt everywhere. It’s not only oceans, rivers and lakes that affect the climate b...