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Space Man Joins BBC Voyage Around The Solar System
A Kingston University space expert has been reaching out to the stars after lending his specialist knowledge to a major TV drama-documentary. Director of the University's Aerospace Research Centre Dr Chris Welch has been working with the makers of BBC One series, Space Odyssey: Voyage to the... view more (2004-10-20)

ESA's Belgian astronaut on way to Space Station in new Soyuz spacecraft
ESA PR 68-2002. The fourth taxi flight to the International Space Station carrying a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut and two Russian crew members made a perfect lift-off today (Wednesday, 30 October 2002) from the vast open plains of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, into the rising sun at 08:11 local... view more (2002-10-30)

Europe goes back to Mars
European space scientists have strongly recommended a mission equipped with a rover as the next scientific mission to Mars as part of the European Space Agency's [ESA] Aurora programme of planetary exploration. The mission would conduct a detailed analysis of the Martian environment and search for... view more (2005-04-08)

Saturn's winds are variable
A team of astrophysicists at the University of the Basque Country has detected, for the first time ever, changes in Saturn's winds. The research has merited front page coverage in the scientific magazine, Nature. The winds blowing around Saturn and Jupiter are special. Unlike those of the rest of... view more (2003-06-09)

DELTA mission and ESA astronaut dock with ISS
The DELTA mission, with European Space Agency astronaut André Kuipers from the Netherlands, and the ISS Expedition 9 crew, successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) today. Docking by Soyuz TMA-4 with the nadir port of the Russian Zarya module took place at 07:03... view more (2004-04-21)

Industry asked to design Mars rover and payload
Is there life on other worlds or is planet Earth the only place in our Solar System where living organisms have evolved? ESA is inviting European and Canadian industry to participate in its exciting ExoMars mission in order to provide an answer to this age-old question. On 9 July, the Aurora... view more (2003-07-22)

ESA Director General Salutes China's First Human Space Flight
"Our warmest congratulations to the People's Republic of China on this outstanding achievement" said ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain soon after the successful Shenzou launch. "China becomes the third country to send human beings into space, demonstrating the reliability of its... view more (2003-10-15)

ESA's first step towards Mars Sample Return
What is the next best thing to humans landing on Mars and exploring the wonders of the Red Planet? The answer: touching, imaging and analysing carefully preserved samples of Martian rock in a state-of-the-art laboratory on Earth. If all goes according to plan, this is exactly what ESA's long-term... view more (2003-11-12)

COROT finds exoplanet orbiting Sun-like star
A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than 50 000 stars and is adding significantly to our knowledge of the fundamental workings of stars.   view more (2008-07-28)

Scientific Equipment Including The First European Student Experiment Reaches The International Space Station
Preparations for the Spanish Soyuz mission on the International Space Station (ISS) in October took another step forward with the successful docking of an unmanned Progress spacecraft with the International Space Station on 31 August at 05:41 Central European Time. The Progress M-48 on mission... view more (2003-09-09)

Mars Express mission extended
ESA's Mars Express mission has been extended by one Martian year, or about 23 months, from the beginning of December 2005.   view more (2005-09-23)

MAXUS 4 is now ready for launch
Following the success of the earlier Maxus flights which have taken place since 1992, the countdown is underway for the launch of ESA’s Maxus 4 sub-orbital microgravity mission on 29 April from ESRANGE, near Kiruna in northern Sweden. During the last two years, scientists from five European... view more (2001-04-26)

Surrey-built PICOSat launched for US Air Force
PICOSat, a 67kg microsatellite developed for the US Air Force (USAF) Space Test Program (STP) by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in the UK, was launched successfully from Alaska on 30th September. The PICOSat mission is demonstrating the viability of utilizing a commercial-off-the-shelf... view more (2001-10-02)

Ghosts found in space
For Halloween this year, watch out for some real ghosts cruising through space, destined never to `cross over` to the other side. These ghosts are scientific satellites that have reached the end of their mission and experts have turned off all their instruments. Other satellites cross over into the... view more (2002-10-31)

Hubble gets revitalised in new Servicing Mission for more and better science!
ESA PR 4-2002. c As a unique collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA), and NASA, Hubble has had a phenomenal scientific impact. The unsurpassed sharp images from this space observatory have penetrated into the hidden depths of space and revealed breathtaking phenomena. But Hubble`s... view more (2002-02-15)

ESA tracking support essential to Chinese mission
The ESA ground station network is being mobilised to provide direct support to China's Chang'E-1 Moon mission. Three ESTRACK stations will be used to track Chang'E-1 on the flight to the Moon and during the critical Moon orbit insertion.   view more (2007-10-29)

ESA selects new Earth Observation missions
For its second cycle of the Earth Explorer Opportunity Missions, ESA has recently selected three proposals to enter feasibility study: ACE+ , an Atmosphere and Climate-Explorer; EGPM, the European contribution to Global Precipitation Mission, and SWARM, a constellation of small satellites to study... view more (2002-05-29)

Fluid theory confirmed by Foton
n scientific research, there is great satisfaction when theoretical work is eventually supported by experimentation. Such was the case this week for a team of Italian and US scientists when they received preliminary confirmation of a 10-year-old theory from a fluid science experiment that is... view more (2007-09-26)

Los Alamos and Surrey Satellite Contract for Cibola Flight Experiment Platform
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) have announced a contract agreement for development of an advanced satellite platform for ionospheric and lightning studies. The British firm, SSTL, will create the satellite platform that will be used to carry the... view more (2004-03-12)

ESA's Belgian astronaut ready for Space Station mission
ESA PR 67-2002. A new Soyuz capsule will be launched into space next week on 30 October at 08:11 local time (04:11 CET) from the cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, carrying the European Space Agency's first Belgian astronaut to visit the International Space Station and two Russian crew members.... view more (2002-10-25)

Mars Express mission controllers ready for NASA Phoenix landing
ESA's Mars Express mission control team are ready to monitor Phoenix's critical entry, descent and landing onto the Martian surface on 26 May 2008.   view more (2008-05-21)

Chinese satellites meet European instruments in London for space mission pre-nuptials
The hardware inside a Chinese space satellite is currently undergoing its final tests in London to make sure that it can 'talk' with the European science instruments it will be carrying, in advance of its mission launch in 2003. 37 scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have spent... view more (2002-10-11)

Shrinking giants, exploding dwarves
When white dwarf stars explode, they leave behind a rapidly expanding cloud of 'stardust' known as a Type Ia supernova. These exploding events, which shine billions of times brighter than our sun, are all presumed to be extremely similar, and thus have been used extensively as cosmological... view more (2007-08-28)

European experiments successfully launched aboard Foton spacecraft
An unmanned Foton-M spacecraft carrying a mainly European payload was put into orbit by a Russian Soyuz-U launcher today at 14:00 Central European Time (18:00 local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.   view more (2005-06-01)

First crew starts living and working on the International Space Station
ESA PR-70   view more (2000-10-31)
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