Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
By Maggie Gill-Austern Last Monday night, I had a date with Envisat, the European Space Agency's Earth-watching satellite. At about 9:20, I got up, put on my shoes and went outside to wait on the sidewalk outside my apartment, looking up at the sky.
ESA (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Billowing smoke from Northern California wildfires that have burnt more than 1400 km² of land is visible in this Envisat image acquired on 25 June 2008.
ESA (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
The Cassini mission is new two-year mission that will address new questions and bring it closer to two of its most intriguing targets: Titan and Enceladus. On June 30, Cassini completed its four-year prime mission and began its extended mission, which was approved in April this year. Full story
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
The Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element (GIOVE-B) satellite has completed in-orbit testing, prime contractor *Astrium* announced July 3. The *European Space Agency* confirmed the conclusion of...
Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
The European Space Agency said its Ulysses spacecraft, whose mission was expected to end Tuesday, is still operating....
ESA (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
The Ulysses spacecraft, whose mission was expected to end on 1 July 2008, is hanging on valiantly as spacecraft controllers wait for a sign of the fuel freeze that would end the mission. This could happen any time now.
ESA (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Earth observation satellites have provided vital information to relief workers in Myanmar throughout a particularly long crisis response window following the devastating Cyclone Nargis that hit the country on 2 and 3 May 2008.
ESA (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Spacecraft controllers have just awoken Rosetta from hibernation to prepare for its encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September. ESA’s comet chaser will study the relatively rare asteroid as it flies by on its way to comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
( European Space Agency ) Earth observation satellites have provided vital information to relief workers in Myanmar throughout a particularly long crisis response window following the devastating Cyclone Nargis that hit the country on May 2 and 3, 2008.
Space News From SpaceDaily.Com (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 03, 2008 - The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will be co-hosting, in cooperation with NASA and the International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG), an International Conference on July 9-10 in the Auditorium of the Biblioth�que Nationale de France in Paris to discuss the next step in the exploration of Mars.
GeoCarta (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The on again, off again global navigation system Galileo took a big step forward with the announcement by the European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA) that that procurement of the nuts and bolts of the system is going forward. The goal is to have the planned 30 satellites as well as the ground control facilities up and running by 2013.Doubt over the program's future arose over
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will be co-hosting, in cooperation with NASA and the International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG), an International Conference on July 9-10 in the Auditorium of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris to discuss the next step in the exploration of Mars.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The French government is making ambitious plans for European missions to the Moon and Mars. The nation wants to start a space revolution by letting European Union politicians decide on goals for the European Space Agency (ESA).According to the French, Europe will fall behind Japan, China, and India if it refuses to change its approach to space.France is seeking to drive the agenda to the forefront...
ESA (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
ESA PR 30-2008. ESA and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) will be co-hosting, in cooperation with NASA and the International Mars Exploration Working Group (IMEWG), an International Conference on 9 and 10 July in the Auditorium of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris* to discuss the next step in the exploration of Mars.
ESA (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
As interest in exploration of the Moon soars among the world’s space agencies, ESA, through it's General Studies Programme, has challenged university students to develop a robotic vehicle that is capable of working in difficult terrain, comparable to that found at the lunar poles. Eight university teams have been selected to proceed to the design stage of ESA’s Lunar Robotics Challenge.
