| N° 15–2013 |
Call for Media: Inauguration of ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre at ESRIN 15 May 2013 Media representatives are invited to the inauguration of ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre at ESRIN (Frascati, Italy). This is the second centre to be opened under the Agency’s Space Situational Awareness programme after the Space Weather Coordination Centre that was inaugurated in Brussels last month. Plain text |
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| N° 14–2013 |
ESA opens its doors in UK 14 May 2013 David Willetts, UK Minister for Universities and Science, and Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, today unveiled the Agency’s first UK facility: ECSAT, the European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications, located at the Harwell Oxford campus. Plain text |
| N° 13–2013 |
ESA’s next Earth Explorer satellite 7 May 2013 ESA’s Earth Observation Programme Board has selected ‘Biomass’ to become the seventh Earth Explorer mission. The innovative satellite aims to map and monitor one of Earth’s most precious resources. Plain text |
| N° 12–2013 |
ESA’s Vega launcher scores new success with Proba-V 7 May 2013 The second flight of ESA’s newest launch vehicle has been completed from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Two Earth observation satellites, ESA’s Proba-V and Vietnam’s VNREDSat‑1A, were released into different orbits, demonstrating the rocket’s versatility. Estonia’s first satellite, the ESTCube‑1 technology demonstrator, was also released into orbit. Plain text |