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

Infrared detectors on-a-chip changes the whole spectrometer field

Controlling robots from afar with robust communications

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

Electric Solar Wind Sail could make bidirectional manned Mars flights economically feasible

By opening up the possibility of economical asteroid water mining , the electric solar wind sail (E-sail, www.electric-sailing.fi) enables frequent and affordable manned Mars flights The E-sail is a novel propellantless technology that was invented in Finland in 2006. The E-sail utilises long, charged tethers to convert natural solar wind momentum flux into spacecraft thrust.

Electric Solar Wind Sail could make bidirectional manned Mars flights economically feasible

Robot “Shadow Hand”

Picking up an apple is one of those jobs requiring the delicate touch of the human hand – or its robotic counterpart. ESA is developing technologies for advanced human–machine interaction to transfer the human sense of touch to space. The aim is that remote operators will feel as though they are right there with whatever

Robot “Shadow Hand”

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Researchers To Send Cancer Cells Into Space As Part Of Childhood Brain Tumour Research
The majority of patients with diffuse midline glioma, a deadly and aggressive brain tumour that most frequently affects youngsters, pass away within 18 months.
UK experiments into child brain tumours and muscle ageing to go to space
The projects - which will go up to the International Space Station in 2025 - have been given £2.6million funding by the UK Space Agency.
Two Swiss take on important roles at the European Space Agency ESA
The Council of the European Space Agency ESA at delegate level made this decision at its meeting on 23 March 2023. It is the agency's governing body, in which each of the 22 Member States is ...
Advisory group backs European human spaceflight program using commercial approaches
An advisory committee called on the European Space Agency to develop a comprehensive human spaceflight program using a more commercial approach.
Engineering space exploration tools
From the James Webb Space Telescope discovering thousands of new galaxies more distant and ancient than previously documented to Mars rovers tracing evidence of ancient lakes on the red planet, ...

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European Space Agency Discovery

'City killer' asteroid comes dangerously close to Earth: Can it cause any damage?
A month ago, researchers made the discovery that the asteroid with the designation 2023 DZ2. Reported By: | Edited By: DNA Web Team |Source: DNA Web Desk |Updated: Mar 26, 2023, 10:01 AM IST An ...
Juice, the mission to Jupiter’s icy moons – with Professor Michele Dougherty
Professor Michele Dougherty CBE FRS - Royal Society Research Professor, Head of Dept. of Physics, Imperial College London; Principal Investigator for the magnetometer on the European Space Agency's ...
Innovation in the space industry takes off
Joshua Western, CEO and co-founder of Wales-based space manufacturing startup Space Forge believes space to be the most important research frontier of our time. He sees space-base ...
Back to the Moon: A space lawyer and planetary scientist on what it will take to share the benefits of new lunar exploration – podcast
A US-led coalition and China are both planning to establish bases on the Moon. How the two nations will navigate actions on the Moon and how other countries will be involved is still unclear.
Tracking the Chinese Balloon From Space
A new analysis of satellite imagery traces the path of the Chinese balloon from its launch in China to the United States.