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Astronauts seen and heard: satcoms for the Space Station
 
7 February 2012   Seeing ESA astronaut André Kuipers on the International Space Station is a regular occurrence these days. You turn on your TV or check Twitter and there he is. Since there are no cables trailing from the Station to Earth, just how does this happen?

Concordia station and <i>aurora australis</i>
Voyage to the most isolated base on Earth
 
27 January 2012   Alexander Kumar, the next ESA-sponsored crewmember to stay in Concordia, has arrived safely at the research base in Antarctica. The voyage to one of the remotest places on Earth takes even longer than the voyage to the International Space Station.

SPHERES finals on the International Space Station
Robot competition in zero-gravity
 
25 January 2012   School teams from Europe and America have been commanding robots competing in the Spheres ZeroRobotics tournament in space. The arena: 400 km above Earth on the International Space Station.

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