ESA Council of Ministers: Decision time for shaping the future of space
The next meeting of the European Council of Ministers will take place in November in Paris. But what is it all about?
The next meeting of the European Council of Ministers will take place in November in Paris. But what is it all about?
This image of the Hellas Basin was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express later last year (6 December 2016).
Launched 3 weeks ago (16 February 2016), Sentinel-3A has already delivered impressive first images for Europe’s Copernicus programme. The 3 instruments on the satellite will be used to measure Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere. The image above shows Storm …
Celebrate 20 years of uninterrupted views of our Sun. In December 1995, the ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) launched into space, eventually reaching around 1.5 million kilometres closer to the Sun. From protecting our planet to investigating how the …
Taken merely 5 days after it arrived in orbit (28 June 2015), Sentinel-2A took this false-colour image of Sudan’s capital and second largest city, Khartoum. Khartoum sits between the Blue Nile River (which can be seen on the upper right …
This week we will be joined by Dr Beth Healey, Research MD with the European Space Agency.
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) …
From making pee in pots to helping open a new ESA building, the last two weeks have kept everyone here on their toes.
At 05:38 BST (2 September 2015), Andreas Mogensen, Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov were launched on the Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft into orbit. The cargo being carried with them includes 2kg of rocket seeds, ready for Tim Peake’s mission in December …
This week (3 June 2015) is the 50th anniversary of the first NASA spacewalk. Edward H. White II floated for more than 20 minutes in the microgravity of space on the Gemini IV mission in 1965. At the end of …