The UK Space Agency has concluded its year as chair of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC).
Charlie Maclean and his Astro Pi coding excellence prize visit to CGI
This week’s #IOTW shows European astronaut Andreas Mogensen during a ‘fit-check’ of the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft, ready for his trip next week. Mogensen, Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov will be departing from Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 05:34 BST (2 September 2015) …
"Within the Agency, we want to ensure the evidence on the impact of our policies and the benefits that they produce for the UK are the best they can be. It is important that every pound spent by government represents …
Last month, (July 2015) Europe’s Copernicus programme released this fascinating image of a glacier in Greenland. Environmental information helps us understand how our planet is changing and the role man-kind has to play in this. The Copernicus programme uses the …
On 14 July, NASA’s New Horizons took the closest images of Pluto, the only planet in our solar system unexplored by space probes.
The European Space Agency has launched a recruitment process for 8 Director-level posts.
This week's image of the week looks at Supernova remnant W44 and its environment (November 2012).
From making pee in pots to helping open a new ESA building, the last two weeks have kept everyone here on their toes.
The EXPLORERS consortium have successfully obtained position fixes using a combined group of Galileo IOC and FOC satellites. The fixes occurred on 3 July 2015 using both Galileo Open Service and Public Regulated Service (PRS) signals. The fixes were obtained …
Taken just 4 days after launch, this first image from Sentinel-2A shows the coastal mountains of France and Italy. Each detector in the multispectral instrument has a slightly different viewing direction. These different directions translate into marginal differences causing the …