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• Watch live: Vega-C to launch Sentinel-1C ESA · 29 Nov 2024 The Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite is ready for liftoff! Tune in to ESA WebTV on 4 December from 22:00 CET to watch the satellite soar into space on a Vega-C rocket to be launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, Fre...
• ESA to Award Avio New Vega E Contract Before the End of 2024 European Spaceflight · 29 Nov 2024 ESA Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen has revealed that ESA expects to award a new contract to Avio for the development of Vega E before the end of 2024. Tolker-Nielsen made the comments during a media...
• Watch eclipse-making Proba-3 launch ESA · 28 Nov 2024 ESA’s eclipse-making precise formation-flying mission is nearly ready for liftoff! Proba-3 is scheduled for launch on a PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Wednesday, 4 December, at 1...
• Watch eclipse-making Proba-3 launch today ESA · 28 Nov 2024 ESA’s eclipse-making precise formation-flying mission is nearly ready for liftoff! Proba-3 is scheduled for launch on a PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Wednesday, 4 December, at 1...
• ESA Award Open Cosmos a €34.6M for NanoMagSat Mission European Spaceflight · 27 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency has awarded an Open Cosmos-led consortium a €34.6 million contract to develop, launch, and commission a constellation of three satellites for the agency’s NanoMagSat mission. NanoMagSat was appr...
• ESA awards development contract for NanoMagSat ESA · 27 Nov 2024 Today, the ESA awarded a contract to Open Cosmos to design, build, launch and commission the NanoMagSat Scout satellites. This new mission will uphold Europe’s leadership in monitoring Earth’s magnetic field and contribu...
• Sombrero Galaxy dazzles in new Webb image ESA · 25 Nov 2024 A new mid-infrared image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the Sombrero galaxy, also known as Messier 104 (M104). The signature, glowing core seen in visible-light images does not shine, and inste...
• Final call to apply to the ESA Student Internship Programme ESA · 25 Nov 2024 The countdown is on! The 2024 call for applications for ESA’s Student Internship Programme closes on 30 November. This is your moment to take the first step towards an extraordinary career in space. Explore this year’s i...
• ESA Expands Support for Emerging European Launch Providers with Additional €44.22 Million The Launch Pad · 23 Nov 2024 ESA Expands Support for Emerging European Launch Providers with Additional €44.22 Million
• ESA Awards Hemeria €9.8M Contract for Space Weather Nanosatellite European Spaceflight · 22 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency has awarded a €9.8 million contract to French aerospace and defence firm Hemeria to design, build, and operate the agency’s first space weather nanosatellite. Called Swing (Space Weather Ionosph...
• Hubble Captures an Edge-On Spiral with Curve Appeal NASA · 22 Nov 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. We don’t see the galaxy’s spiral arms because we are seeing it from the side. Located roughly 150 million light-years from Earth in th...
• ESA and JAXA sign statement on expanding deep space cooperation SpaceNews · 21 Nov 2024 BREMEN, Germany — The European and Japanese space agencies have issued a joint statement on furthering cooperation on planetary defense, the moon, Mars and beyond. JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa and […]
• ESA Award Another €230M to ArianeGroup for Themis Demonstrator European Spaceflight · 21 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency has announced that it has awarded two new contracts to ArianeGroup to build a second Themis demonstrator and to refine the design of its Prometheus rocket engine. The two contracts have a combin...
• Fly around Ares Vallis on Mars ESA · 20 Nov 2024 Explore the immense power of water as ESA’s Mars Express takes us on a flight over curving channels, streamlined islands and muddled ‘chaotic terrain’ on Mars, soaking up rover landing sites along the way.
• ESA Publishes Call for Reusable Rocket with 60-Tonne Payload Capacity European Spaceflight · 20 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency has announced that it will commission a study to detail the development of a reusable rocket capable of delivering 60 tonnes to low Earth orbit. In a tender for open competition published on 20...
• ESA’s Space Systems for Safety and Security (4S) programme ESA · 20 Nov 2024 At ESA, through the Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme, we’re addressing solutions for when safety and security of communication services cannot be guaranteed by the terrestrial networks alone. Wit...
• ESA awards funding to four European launch startups SpaceNews · 19 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency is providing additional funding to four launch vehicle startups to help them with testing of their vehicles.
• ESA Awards €44.2M in Funding to Four European Rocket Builders European Spaceflight · 19 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency has awarded Boost! contract extensions worth €44.2 million to HyImpulse, Isar Aerospace, Orbex, and Rocket Factory Augsburg. ESA member states adopted the Boost! initiative in late 2019. The pri...
• Proba-3’s journey to see the Sun’s corona ESA · 19 Nov 2024 The double-satellite Proba-3 is the most ambitious member yet of ESA’s Proba family of experimental missions. Two spacecraft will fly together as one, maintaining precise formation down to a single millimetre. One will b...
• ESA Study Outlines 2035 Launch of Nuclear Propulsion Demonstrator European Spaceflight · 18 Nov 2024 Brussels-based engineering firm Tractebel has completed a European Space Agency-commissioned study aimed at creating a roadmap towards the development of nuclear propulsion systems for space exploration. ESA began work o...
• Sustainability, digitalisation and extraordinary maintenance contracts at Europe’s Spaceport ESA · 18 Nov 2024 ESA and CNES invite space and non-space companies from all ESA Member States to support the extraordinary maintenance and digital modernisation of several activities at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
• Hubble Takes a Look at Tangled Galaxies NASA · 15 Nov 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster. The Coma Cluster is a...
• ESA Releases Findings of Super Heavy-Lift Rocket Studies European Spaceflight · 15 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency has revealed the findings of a pair of studies it commissioned to explore how Europe could develop a rocket capable of delivering 100 tonnes to low Earth orbit. In June 2022, the European Space...
• ESA signs contracts advancing Greece’s Earth observation capabilities ESA · 14 Nov 2024 Today, the European Space Agency signed six contracts that will help position Greece as a key player in the field of Earth observation.
• Space for Inspiration: shaping new markets beyond Earth ESA · 14 Nov 2024 ESA invites you to join its fifth Space for Inspiration conference on the future of commercial space exploration in Luxembourg on 4 and 5 December.
• Proba-3: Not because it is easy… ESA · 13 Nov 2024 Not because it is easy but because it is hard: this historic space phrase is pretty much the definition of ESA’s double-satellite Proba-3 mission, which will employ precise formation flying to produce artificial total so...
• NASA Welcomes Denmark as Newest Artemis Accords Signatory NASA · 13 Nov 2024 Following a signing ceremony Wednesday in Denmark’s capital city, Copenhagen, NASA embraced Denmark as the 48th nation to commit to the safe and responsible exploration of space that benefits humanity. “We welcome Denmar...
• Expanding satellite broadband access to underserved areas across Europe ESA · 13 Nov 2024 ESA is taking a significant step towards creating a more digitally inclusive Europe through a new partnership that will bring internet access to the hardest-to-reach areas. Reliable connectivity has become essential in t...
• Ariane 6 upper stage visits ESA’s temple of boom ESA · 12 Nov 2024 Ariane 6 upper stage in LEAF
• European Space Agency and Arianespace at a crossroads NASASpaceflight · 9 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of the Vega-C and Ariane 6 as early as this December. While technicians in Europe and French Guiana are preparing these rockets and their...
• Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights NASA · 8 Nov 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a multi-talented light show, showing off an impre...
• Hera burns towards Mars ESA · 8 Nov 2024 ESA’s Hera mission has completed the first critical manoeuvre on its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system since launch on 7 October.
• Meet ESA’s SME Office at Space Tech Expo 2024 ESA · 7 Nov 2024 Space startups and SMEs can meet ESA’s SME Office at Space Tech Expo, a space technology trade fair and conference in Bremen, Germany from 19–21 November.
• ESA Shares Rare Update on Themis Reusable Booster Demonstrator European Spaceflight · 7 Nov 2024 The European Space Agency has provided a rare update on the progress of its Themis reusable booster demonstrator project. Themis was initially a CNES project that was first announced in early 2018. In November 2019, duri...
• Contract signed for new Arctic Ocean Surveillance Precursor mission ESA · 5 Nov 2024 On Friday 1st November, 2024 ESA’s General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) and Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA), Norway, have signed a contract to develop the Arctic Ocean Surveillance precursor (AOS-p) mission.
• Atlantis Begins 13th Space Trip NASA · 4 Nov 2024 Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off in this Nov. 3, 1994, image, with NASA astronauts Donald R. McMonagle, Curtis L. Brown, Jr., Ellen S. Ochoa, Scott E. Parazynski, and Joseph R. Tanner, and ESA (European Space Agency) ast...
• Space is closer than you think: apply now to the ESA Student Internship Programme ESA · 1 Nov 2024 The 2025 ESA internship opportunities are now live! Positions are open in a wide range of fields, including engineering, science, IT, natural and social sciences, business, economics, and administrative services. This is...
• Europe says farewell to eclipse-making Proba-3 ESA · 31 Oct 2024 ESA’s solar eclipse-making Proba-3 mission is about to leave Europe, to head to its launch site in India. The mission’s two spacecraft – which will manoeuvre precisely in Earth orbit so that one casts a shadow onto the o...
• ESA Selects Companies to Develop in-Orbit Fuel Storage and Refilling Tech European Spaceflight · 29 Oct 2024 The European Space Agency has selected ArianeGroup, GMV Aerospace and Defence, MT Aerospace, SAB Aerospace, and The Exploration Company to develop in-orbit fuel storage and refilling capabilities. ESA’s selection of the...
• Ariel takes shape and first shake ESA · 29 Oct 2024 The construction phase of ESA’s Ariel mission has started at Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse (France) with the assembly of the spacecraft’s structural model. This marks a significant step forward for this mission de...