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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 In 2012, Vega will carry ESA?s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle into space. The vehicle will then return to Earth to test a range of enabling systems and technologies for atmospheric re-entry. A new video with computer generated animations of the vehicle and its mission is now available. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 Different wavelengths of light swirl together like watercolours in a new, ethereal portrait of a bright, active star-forming region. |
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Wednesday, 08 October 2008 |
 The Earth Observation Handbook ? just released and available online ? explains the vital role played by Earth observation satellites in providing the information needed by governments and policymakers to make well-informed decisions for a sustainable future. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 The latest campaign for Balloon Experiments for University Students, or BEXUS, was kicked off on 3 October as students from several Member States and Co-operating States arrived at the Esrange Space Centre in Kiruna, Sweden. |
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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
 The 2008 ozone hole ? a thinning in the ozone layer over Antarctica ? is larger both in size and ozone loss than 2007 but is not as large as 2006. |
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to whether this oddity is actually a planet or a failed star. |
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
 German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by 27 cm. |
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
 Europe's ATV - the Jules Verne - ended its first mission with a controlled break-up over the Pacific. Its developers are already thinking about the future of Automated Transport Vehicles, and hope to develop a craft that can not only return to earth intact, but can also carry a crew of astronauts. |
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Friday, 03 October 2008 |
 After reaching the second-lowest extent ever recorded last month, sea ice in the Arctic has begun to refreeze in the face of autumn temperatures, closing both the Northern Sea Route and the direct route through the Northwest Passage. |
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
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Astronomers have found almost 300 planets outside our solar system, but they haven’t been able to take pictures of any of them — the planets are too small, dim and distant. But the Gemini Observatory recently took a picture of a star and a nearby object — could it be the first picture of an extrasolar planet?
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
 ESA and European industries have updated the planning of the preparatory activities for a new tentative launch date of 27 October 2008 for the GOCE satellite. |
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Thursday, 02 October 2008 |
 On 15 September, students from Spain, Sweden and Belgium watched in eager anticipation as their experiments took to the air on the first ESA STRAtospheric PLatform EXperiment (STRAPLEX) campaign. |
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
 At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, 28 September, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A. This component is essential for the storage and transmission of data from the telescope's science instruments back to Earth. Ground control attempts to reset the device and obtain a download of the payload computer's memory were unsuccessful. |
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Wednesday, 01 October 2008 |
 The Planck spacecraft has almost completed its final testing phase and is on its way to being launch-ready. The testing phase began in late March this year, and has taken the spacecraft all over Europe, making it go hot, cold and shaky to test its robustness. |
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Tuesday, 30 September 2008 |
 Video showing the destructive re-entry of Jules Verne ATV at the end of a successful mission to the International Space Station. The re-entry took place over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean after two deorbit burns. (Credits: ESA/NASA) |
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
 Taken at approximately 15:36 CEST (13:36 UT) from the DC-8 aircraft. Click on 'Full story' for more images received overnight. |
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
 ESA PR 41-2008. Europe?s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne successfully completed its six-month ISS logistics mission today with its controlled destructive re-entry over a completely uninhabited area of the South Pacific. |
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Monday, 29 September 2008 |
 Shortly after 15:30 CEST (13:30 UT) on Monday 29 September, ESA's ATV will begin a controlled destructive re-entry high above an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean.
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
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Friday, 26 September 2008 |
 The space industry is one of today?s most powerful technology innovation drivers. New programmes such as space missions to Mars and the moon push the boundaries of technology development. Aimed at industry, the second European Technology Transfer Conference will present technology spin-off opportunities during the Materialica tradefair in Munich, 13-14 October. |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
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The planet Venus is now visible very low in western sky right after sundown. This evening appearance of Venus will become even better in coming weeks as the planet rises higher and higher each night throughout the fall and winter. The brilliant “evening star” will be at its brightest on Feb. 19.
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
 Today, one year after, the intriguing story of the second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) experiment has reached its conclusion. After a lengthy investigation, European engineers are now confident that they have solved most of the mysteries surrounding the fate of the student mission. |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
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Returning for his fourth summer at JPL, Victor Mejia knows his way around the Lab. This year's focus: Writing software for JPL scientists. |
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Thursday, 25 September 2008 |
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As a college student, Gisselle Cunningham studies robotics and computer engineering. Her summer stint on a JPL robotics project was the perfect fit. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 Following a first stage of psychological testing, there are now only 192 highly talented individuals still in with a chance of becoming the new astronauts in ESA's European Astronaut Corps. |
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Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
 Artemis, ESA's data relay satellite, successfully answered the call for emergency services from the ATV Control Centre due to anticipated outages at the NASA Space Centre in Houston, Texas. |
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Monday, 22 September 2008 |
 In a world in which human activity is beginning to alter atmospheric composition with substantial implications for climate and air quality, it is more pressing than ever that the scientists of tomorrow understand atmospheric processes and how the processes may change in order to anticipate the effects and minimise potential dangers. |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
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Friday, 19 September 2008 |
 Space is a source of inexhaustible fascination, discoveries and research. For four years 'Space' has reported on a wide variety of extraterrestrial developments. Some of these themes are explored again in a special programme, the 100th edition. |
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
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The Milky Way galaxy is part of a group of galaxies, including several small “dwarf galaxies,” that interact with one another. The outer portion of the Milky Way, called its “halo,” is filled with clouds of gas, star clusters, dark matter and streams of stars gathered from those dwarf galaxies by the power of the Milky Way’s gravity. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) revealed these multiple, previously unknown streams.
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Thursday, 18 September 2008 |
 ESA has released a new educational DVD and a 3-D Teaching Tool, adding to the suite of human spaceflight related education products available for school teachers to use in the classroom. |
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