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    02 Jan 2013 LEON: a new recipe for chips
    02 Jan 2013 LEON: the making of a microprocessor for space
    02 Jan 2013 LEON's first flights
    02 Jan 2013 Leading up to LEON: ESA’s first microprocessors
    02 Jan 2013 LEON: the space chip that Europe built
    16 Nov 2012 Europe dominating satellite startracker market
    09 Nov 2012 ESA’s IXV reentry vehicle prepares for soft landing
    01 Nov 2012 Research cruise testing EGNOS satnav for ships
    31 Oct 2012 Materials testing key to space successes
    10 Oct 2012 Testing Mars and Moon soil for sheltering astronauts from radiation
    04 Oct 2012 Videos highlight labs working as ‘CSI ESA’
    17 Sep 2012 Přístroje družice Gaia instalovány a připraveny k testování
    28 Aug 2012 Small GEO satellite platform lands at ESA
    27 Aug 2012 BepiColombo's shock of separation
    17 Aug 2012 Good vibrations for BepiColombo
    11 Jul 2012 Focused on high-power radio, ESA’s newest lab opens in Spain
    03 Jul 2012 ESA extends its navigation lab in readiness for Galileo testing
    02 Jul 2012 Gaia checks out of antenna testing
    19 Jun 2012 ESA to catch laser beam from Moon mission
    18 Jun 2012 ESA tests self-steering rover in ‘Mars’ desert
    07 May 2012 Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover
    20 Apr 2012 Innovative nanosat will test space software
    13 Apr 2012 Designing the interplanetary web
    29 Mar 2012 The delicate art of building and testing spacecraft structures
    05 Mar 2012 Lunar lander firing up for touchdown
    12 Dec 2011 ESA engineers explore nano-world with new X-ray instrument
    27 Oct 2011 Swarm: magnetic field satellites get their bearings
    17 Oct 2011 ESA tour day inspires tweets and visitors
    07 Oct 2011 ESTEC tours for this coming Sunday fully booked
    30 Sep 2011 ESA centrifuge opens door to high-gravity worlds
    23 Sep 2011 Take a tour of ESTEC, ESA's technical heart
    05 Sep 2011 Student experiments offered spin on ESA's Large Diameter Centrifuge
    22 Aug 2011 ESA simulates scorching sunlight for BepiColombo mission to Mercury
    19 Jul 2011 ESA’s relocated space radio lab celebrates busy first year
    04 Jul 2011 ESA’s cobalt-60 irradiation facility gains ISO quality stamp
    29 Jun 2011 Driving a robot from Space Station
    29 Jun 2011 Expert’s reentry flap endures hot baptism
    17 Jun 2011 Proba-V equipped for radiation census of space
    01 Jun 2011 Keeping the power on in space
    01 Jun 2011 Hot stuff: the making of BepiColombo
    24 May 2011 GMES Masters seeks innovative uses for Earth observation data
    04 May 2011 European experts will discuss hot topic of flying spacecraft faster
    02 May 2011 Exploring Rio Tinto Eurobotically
    05 Apr 2011 ESA increases availability of made-in-Europe space parts
    16 Mar 2011 Student teams working on 'Spin Your Thesis!'
    10 Mar 2011 High-power multicarrier facility inaugurated in Spain
    07 Mar 2011 How to keep LISA’s laser on target five million km away
    22 Feb 2011 Bridge to PARIS: testing Earth monitoring via satnav
    31 Jan 2011 How ESTEC turned up temperature for Mercury testing
    20 Jan 2011 Galileo satellite undergoes launch check-up at ESTEC
    18 Jan 2011 ESA’s Mercury mapper feels the heat
    10 Jan 2011 Compression stops space missions from drowning in data
    10 Dec 2010 ESA Test Centre shaker simulates Galileo launch
    08 Dec 2010 Long-distance ultrasound exams controlled by joystick
    17 Nov 2010 High-tech design for ESA's space hazards awareness system
    24 Sep 2010 Testing time to keep LISA Pathfinder clear of magnetism
    09 Sep 2010 New testbed simulates space's formation flying future
    06 Sep 2010 Students invited to spin their theses
    31 Aug 2010 Navigation satellites contend with stormy Sun
    23 Aug 2010 October event targets innovation in systems and concurrent engineering
    03 Aug 2010 MetOp-B module passes crucial vacuum test
    03 Aug 2010 Weersatelliet MetOp-B geslaagd voor vacuümtests bij ESTEC
    16 Jul 2010 ESA helps space facility recover from L’Aquila earthquake
    07 Jul 2010 Atmospheric entry workshop set for Switzerland
    29 Jun 2010 MetOp-B is ESA test centre’s latest task of busy year
    29 Jun 2010 ESA’s space radio lab reopens in Valencia
    23 Jun 2010 Student projects in a spin on ESTEC's centrifuge
    02 Jun 2010 Mars500 gaming helps develop electronic helpers for deep space crews
    04 May 2010 Wide-eyed Proba-V will track global vegetation daily
    28 Apr 2010 ESA missions extend fibre optics to orbit
    14 Apr 2010 Space Propulsion conference will chart industry’s future trajectory
    29 Mar 2010 Signature switches ESA lab from Netherlands to Spain
    16 Mar 2010 ‘Green’ satellite fuel designed to make space safer
    16 Feb 2010 Dark matter detective arrives at ESTEC
    16 Feb 2010 Innovative space drill among results of ESA’s Networking/Partnering Initiative
    16 Feb 2010 ESA’s High Power RF Laboratory transferring to Spain
    09 Dec 2009 CNES–ESA symposium to highlight growing potential of small satellites
    04 Dec 2009 Atlantis leaves Columbus with a radio eye on Earth’s sea traffic
    22 Sep 2009 Augmented reality to help astronauts make sense of space
    18 Sep 2009 Columbus to host worldwide sea traffic tracking experiment
    14 Sep 2009 Chinks in ISS armour deliver data on space junk impacts
    09 Sep 2009 ESA preparing ‘sugar-cube’ gyro sensors for future missions
    07 Sep 2009 Proba-2 flies into its Russian launch site
    28 Jul 2009 New planetary simulation software puts ESA rover designs to the test
    09 Jul 2009 More space projects using ESA non-conformance tracking tool
    02 Jul 2009 Proba-2's journey to Russia marks its first step towards space
    22 Jun 2009 SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November
    05 Jun 2009 Life support pilot plant paves the way to Moon and beyond
    03 Jun 2009 Newly-launched missions extend ESA's radiation map of space
    16 Mar 2009 Airbus at ESTEC for ground-based shakedown test
    10 Mar 2009 ESA designs its smallest ever space engine to push back against sunshine
    29 Jan 2009
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    12 Nov 2008 Reentering the atmosphere: Expert Payloads Workshop
    21 Nov 2007 Rosetta monitors Van Allen belt during Earth swing-by
    06 Aug 2004 Envisat's rainbow vision detects ground moving at pace fingernails grow
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