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Media opportunity: ESA presents European participants in 520-day simulated mission to Mars (link opens in a new window)

ESA PR 2010-05 A crew of six, including two Europeans, will soon begin a simulated mission to Mars in a mockup that includes an interplanetary spaceship, a Mars lander and a martian landscape. The Mars500 experiment, as long as a real journey to Mars...

Signature secures future Sentinels for GMES (link opens in a new window)

Marking another significant step in the GMES initiative, ESA and Thales Alenia Space recently signed a contract worth €270 million to build the second Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-3 satellites....

Joint Statement: International Space Station Heads of Agency (link opens in a new window)

ESA PR 2010-04 The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on 11 March 2010, to review ISS cooperation....

Shocking recipe for making killer electrons (link opens in a new window)

Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That’s the shocking recipe revealed by ESA’s Cluster mission....

Discover space in National Science and Engineering Week 12 – 21 March (link opens in a new window)

Discover space in National Science and Engineering Week 12 - 21 March...