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Réunion ministérielle pour définir le rôle de l'espace dans la réalisation des objectifs de l'Europe au niveau mondial   Activités programmatiques en réponse aux objectifs fixés  Artist's impression of Sentinel-4. The Sentinel-4 payload will be embarked upon a Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellite in geostationary orbit.   Artist's impression of small geostationary satellite  This Hubble mosaic of the galaxy NGC 7319 is a part of the so-called Stephan's Quintet. The image was taken using Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on Dec. 30, 1998 and June 17, 1999.
Located in the constellation Pegasus, 270 million light-years from Earth, it was discovered by Edouard M. Stephan in 1877. As the name suggests, the quintet actually contains five galaxies and is the first compact group ever discovered.  Artist's impression of Vega small launcher in flight.  Backdropped by the darkness of space, the International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation. Earlier the STS-124 and Expedition 17 crews concluded almost nine days of cooperative work on board the Shuttle and Station. (11 June 2008)  Artist's view of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) ascent module lifting off from Mars' surface with the Martian soil samples. Release date: 25 novembre 2008 |