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Call for Media: Space Safety conference and media briefing 11 January 2019
Call for Media: Space Safety conference and media briefing 11 January 2019 Whether it's tackling the challenge of space debris, ensuring a timely warning of space weather impacts or detecting and deflecting asteroids: Space Safety is an emerging field and will be included in the proposals of ESA Director General Jan Wörner for the next Ministerial Council, called ‘Space19+’, in November 2019.
ESA Director General’s press breakfast21 December 2018
ESA Director General’s press breakfast21 December 2018 On Wednesday, 16 January 2019, ESA Director General Jan Wörner will meet the media at ESA’s headquarters in Paris.
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst returns to Earth – for the secon...20 December 2018 ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst returned to Earth today alongside NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev.
Call for Media: End of mission and return of ESA astronaut Ale...5 December 2018 ESA astronaut and current commander of the International Space Station (ISS), Alexander Gerst, is expected to return to Earth with a Soyuz capsule on Thursday, 20 December 2018, landing at 11:03 local time (06:03 CET). Along with Alexander will be NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev.
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New research opportunities on International Space Station 08 February 2019
New research opportunities on International Space Station 08 February 2019 European research has been a part of the International Space Station since the very first expeditions to our orbiting science facility in 2001.
Swarm helps pinpoint new magnetic north for smartphones08 February 2019
Swarm helps pinpoint new magnetic north for smartphones08 February 2019 Since it was first measured in 1831, we have known that the magnetic north is constantly on the move. However, its tendency to slowly roam has stepped up a pace recently – so much so that the World Magnetic Model has had to be updated urgently with th...
Gaia clocks new speeds for Milky Way-Andromeda collision08 February 2019
Gaia clocks new speeds for Milky Way-Andromeda collision08 February 2019 ESA’s Gaia satellite has looked beyond our Galaxy and explored two nearby galaxies to reveal the stellar motions within them and how they will one day interact and collide with the Milky Way – with surprising results.
ESA’s Mars rover has a name – Rosalind Franklin07 February 2019
ESA’s Mars rover has a name – Rosalind Franklin07 February 2019 The ExoMars rover that will search for the building blocks of life on the Red Planet has a name: Rosalind Franklin. The prominent scientist behind the discovery of the structure of DNA will have her symbolic footprint on Mars in 2021.
Active galaxies point to new physics of cosmic expansion29 January 2019
Active galaxies point to new physics of cosmic expansion29 January 2019 Investigating the history of our cosmos with a large sample of distant ‘active’ galaxies observed by ESA’s XMM-Newton, a team of astronomers found there might be more to the early expansion of the Universe than predicted by the standard model of cosmo...
ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited04 February 2019
ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited04 February 2019 ESA’s planet-defending Hera mission will set a new record in space. The asteroid investigator will not only be the first spacecraft to explore a binary asteroid system – the Didymos pair – but the smaller of these two worldlets, comparable in size to...
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