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N° 15-2012ESA declares end of mission for Envisat
 
9 May 2012
Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation of failure scenarios, the end of the mission is being declared.
 
 
N° 14-2012Call for Media: Europe's SpaceLab finalists link up with space and meet astronauts
 
9 May 2012
Europe's finalists in the Space Lab challenge will join astronauts, scientists and Google managers at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne on 16 May to discuss their experiment ideas and call ESA astronaut André Kuipers on the International Space Station.
 
 
N° 13-2012JUICE is Europe’s next large science mission
 
2 May 2012
Jupiter’s icy moons are the focus of Europe’s next large science mission, ESA announced today.


 

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N° 12-2012Metop-B launch postponed
 
27 April 2012
EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency (ESA) have been informed by the launch service provider, Starsem, that the launch of the Metop-B satellite by a Soyuz rocket, scheduled for 23 May from Baikonur, had to be postponed. This is due to additional measures required to ensure the availability of safe drop zones for parts of the launcher after liftoff.


 

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N° 11-2012Call for Media: International Space Station symposium in Berlin
 
20 April 2012
Top scientists and heads of the five International Space Station partner space agencies will meet in Berlin on 2–4 May to present results from more than ten years of scientific activities on the orbital outpost and to elaborate on future research perspectives.


 

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