News and Events
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20 YEARS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHARTER SPACE...
ObservationOctober 30, 2020 -
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Successfully Stows Sample of...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has successfully stowed the spacecraft’s Sample Return Capsule and its abundant sample of asteroid Bennu. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, the mission team sent...
News SciencesOctober 29, 2020 -
Positive signs for Europe as ESA goes forward to...
ESA Director General Jan Wörner and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to take Europe to the Moon.
News SciencesOctober 27, 2020 -
New website puts climate in your hands
Witness the changing planet through the eye of Earth-orbiting satellites with ‘Climate from Space,’ a new interactive website developed by ESA.
News ObservationOctober 21, 2020 -
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touches...
OSIRIS-REx spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to...
News SciencesOctober 20, 2020 -
20 years on and progressing further
Brief review of the 20 years of existence of the International Charter for Space and Major Disasters
News Other fieldOctober 20, 2020 -
Ramping up to launch sea-level charting satellite
With less than a month to go before a SpaceX Falcon 9 takes Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich into orbit to chart sea-level rise, preparations are forging ahead at the launch...
News ObservationOctober 19, 2020 -
Artemis programme: back to the Moon
NASA’s Artemis programme plans to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon in 2024, followed by an exploration/prospection phase using the Gateway as a staging outpost...
News Sciences General publicOctober 16, 2020 -
All engines for Ariane 6 complete qualification...
All three engines developed to power Europe’s future Ariane 6 rocket have completed extensive tests – the P120C solid rocket motor for the boosters, the Vulcain 2.1 engine for the...
News SciencesOctober 15, 2020 -
BepiColombo flies by Venus en route to Mercury
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission has completed the first of two Venus flybys needed to set it on course with the Solar System’s innermost planet, Mercury.
News SciencesOctober 15, 2020 -
BepiColombo’s first glimpse of Venus
The image was taken on 14 October 2020 at 07:25 UTC within 600 000 km of Venus.
News SciencesOctober 15, 2020 -
The Mountains of Pluto are snowcapped, but not...
In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. However, as atmospheric...
News SciencesOctober 13, 2020 -
ANGELS, France's first industrial...
Five times more powerful and 10 times smaller than its predecessors, ANGELS has been designed to address the current challenges of New Space: miniaturization, scaled-up...
ObservationOctober 13, 2020 -
SpaceBlower: a rocket to combat space debris
SpaceBlower is a light suborbital rocket designed to eject a cloud of particles into the path of large non-manoeuvrable space debris. Its goal is to avoid collisions likely to...
News Other fieldOctober 8, 2020 -
BepiColombo’s first Venus flyby
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission is getting ready to fly by Venus. It will make a close approach of the planet on 15 October at 03:58 GMT (05:58 CEST) at a distance of...
News SciencesOctober 7, 2020 -
ESA's Kiruna celebrates 30 years of space...
Ideally positioned to support polar-orbiting missions, ESA's Kiruna ground station is a crucial gateway for much of the data enabling us to study our planet's oceans,...
News ObservationOctober 7, 2020 -
The way forward to Mars
The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars in 264 days foresees a touchdown on the...
News SciencesOctober 1, 2020 -
First results from Cheops: ESA’s exoplanet...
ESA’s new exoplanet mission, Cheops, has found a nearby planetary system to contain one of the hottest and most extreme extra-solar planets known to date: WASP-189 b. This...
News SciencesSeptember 29, 2020