European Space Agency

The European Space Agency (ESA; French: Agence spatiale européenne, ASE; German: Europäische Weltraumorganisation) is an intergovernmental organisation of 22 member states dedicated to the exploration of space

Suitcase-sized CubeSat is the smallest spacecraft to perform its own independent mission heading for an asteroid

Building a highly accurate digital twin of our planet to better prepare for extreme events

Tests performed by astronauts on the ISS suggest that bacteria can extract useful materials from rocks on Mars and the Moon

A graphene light sail for interplanetary travel

Making air out of moondust

Monitoring ocean carbon via satellite

Satellites now play a key role in monitoring carbon levels in the oceans, but we are only just beginning to understand their full potential. Our ability to predict future climate relies upon being able to monitor where our carbon emissions go. So we need to know how much stays in the atmosphere, or becomes stored

Monitoring ocean carbon via satellite

How lunar soil could provide heat and energy for habitation

Building a lunar base would be one of the next logical steps in our exploration of the Solar System, but the survival of a future crew depends on access to a reliable source of energy. An ESA Discovery & Preparation study explored how lunar regolith – the dust, soil and rock on the Moon’s surface

How lunar soil could provide heat and energy for habitation

3D-printing skin and bone so astronauts might heal themselves on missions

3D printing human tissue could help keep astronauts healthy all the way to Mars. An ESA project has produced its first bioprinted skin and bone samples. These state-of-the-art samples were prepared by scientists from the University Hospital of Dresden Technical University (TUD), part of the project consortium together with OHB System AG as the prime contractor, and life

3D-printing skin and bone so astronauts might heal themselves on missions

An electric thruster that ingests scarce air molecules from the top of the atmosphere as propellant for low-orbit satellites

In a world-first, an ESA-led team has built and fired an electric thruster to ingest scarce air molecules from the top of the atmosphere for propellant, opening the way to satellites flying in very low orbits for years on end. ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapper flew as low as 250 km for more than four years thanks to an

An electric thruster that ingests scarce air molecules from the top of the atmosphere as propellant for low-orbit satellites

“Polar-Sitting” Orbit via Solar Sailing

Tomorrow’s orbit today? This image shows how a large solar sail-equipped satellite could partly offset Earth’s and the Sun’s gravity with the slight but steady pressure of sunlight to hover above the Arctic or Antarctic, enabling continuous coverage of high-latitude regions for climate observation or regional communication services. “Standard space missions employ conventional elliptical ‘Keplerian’

“Polar-Sitting” Orbit via Solar Sailing

Space-eye-view could help stop global wildlife decline

Conservation scientists need to collaborate with space agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), to identify measures which help track biodiversity declines around the world. Scientists, led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), UK, and University of Twente, Netherlands, are calling for urgent cooperation, according

Space-eye-view could help stop global wildlife decline

New ESA Satellite to Revolutionise Telecom Market

Telecom satellites are set to enter a new age, as ESA, Eutelsat and Airbus Defence & Space begin designing the most flexible payload ever. The Quantum programme is a departure from the traditional, custom, one-off approach to building satellites by offering a new and generic payload design. For the first time, it will enable users

New ESA Satellite to Revolutionise Telecom Market

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Space Development Agency Transitioning to U.S. Space Force
on August 26, 2021 at 11:00 am
The Space Development Agency has already started the process of transitioning from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to the U.S. Space Force, the agency ...
Space – NASA Flying Out of St. Croix to Conduct Research of the Caribbean and Atlantic
on August 25, 2021 at 10:30 am
Researchers for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are on St. Croix this summer as part of a 45-day deployment to research tropical weather and the Saharan dust layer that blows across ...
European Space Agency asks for patience as it sifts through over 23,000 astronaut applications
on August 24, 2021 at 9:00 am
ESA says the number of applicants far exceeded even its most optimistic forecasts, describing it as a positive indication of the level of interest in space activities.
‘Blob’ sent off to International Space Station! Here’s how school students will participate in the space research project
on August 12, 2021 at 12:19 pm
European Space Agency astronaut and space photographer ... The French space agency CNES is partnering with its national scientific research centre on the project. CNES’ education department ...
UK Space Agency analyses impact of space research funding
on August 6, 2021 at 3:11 am
The UK Space Agency has carried out a study to measure the effectiveness of its funding of space-related research over a ten year period ... The top collaborating countries in absolute terms are the ...

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European Space Agency asks for patience as it sifts through over 23,000 astronaut applications - Daily Mail
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July 29, 2021
Space agencies support ISS extension as NASA warns of space race with China - SpaceNews
August 25, 2021
Unveiling vehicles and technologies for future space transportation - Phys.org
August 27, 2021
ISRO Chairman virtually meets up with ESA, ISA chiefs to discuss new opportunities - Firstpost
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Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite CHEOPS Unexpectedly Detects a Strange Planet “Without a Known Equivalent”
on August 25, 2021 at 9:20 am
The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating along with other European institutions, has unexpecte ...
NASA discovered that our Milky Way galaxy has a 'broken' arm
on August 19, 2021 at 3:12 am
NASA researchers used data acquired from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission and found that the broken arm spans around 3,000 light-years. The location of the break in the spiral arm contains ...
NASA finds break in Milky Way spiral arm stretching 3,000 light-years
on August 18, 2021 at 2:30 pm
The discovery, which looks 'like a splinter ... before it retired in January 2020 - along with data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission to measure the precise distance of the stars ...
Unearthing Slovenia’s underground labyrinths
on August 16, 2021 at 8:59 am
The 63-year-old had come across a new, 60m-deep limestone cave, a discovery that made the ... castle and another was used by the European Space Agency to help train astronauts.
Discovering Slovenia’s underground labyrinths
on August 16, 2021 at 4:10 am
The grass flickered gently above a crack in the limestone and Ludvik Husu instinctively knew he had found what he was searching for: a new cave in Slovenias dramatic Karst region.