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Launch flight STS-100

Lockman Hole spectra

Comet C/2001 C2

Huygens will relay data to the Cassini orbiter which will later relay the data to Earth

Asteroid 951 Gaspra

The COS-B satellite

In June 2001 Cluster began to explore the magnetotail - the region where storms of high energy particles are generated

Hubble spies huge clusters of stars

BepiColombo's lander

Diagram showing orbital positions of the planets and SOHO

Solar Orbiter: an ESA mission to be launched in 2008-2013

The solar flare of 2 April 2001 observed by the EIT on SOHO

Columbus model

Umberto Guidoni during his live interview

First ESA astronaut enters the ISS

Raffaello viewed from Endeavour

ESA's Ulf Merbold on Spacelab-1

Claude Nicollier repairing Hubble

Claude Nicollier repairing Hubble

Claude Nicollier repairing Hubble

Preparation for final bench test

The European Astronaut Centre, Cologne (Germany)

Reinhold Ewald in training

Claudie Haigneré during EVA training at Star City

Claudie Haigneré EVA training in the swimming pool at Star City

Esrange tracking antenna

ESA's XMM-Newton satellite ready to be launched on Ariane-5

True-colour simulated view of Jupiter (NASA/JPL)

Optical counterpart of the gamma-ray burst detected by Ulysses, Mars Odyssey and BeppoSAX

Listening to meteors - how the technique works

Leonid meteors in Western Australia

Artist's impression of the Ulysses spacecraft

Skymap for XMM-Newton

Media Lario parabolic concentrators for Rosetta

Payload horns and feed system for the Planck satellite

XMM and XEUS Optics: visual comparison

One of three mirror modules for ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, flight model

XMM demonstration model of three nested mirror shells

Signals mimicking those from the Huygens probe were sent to the Cassini orbiter from Earth

SOHO also saw Comet Machholz 1 at its closest to the Sun in 1996, although not as plainly as in 2002

Comet Machholz 1 seen close to the Sun by SOHO on 8 January 2002

SMART-2 will pave the way for ESA's ambitious Darwin and LISA missions

Scorched after re-entry

PFM/PAM mounted inside the HRF-2 rack

Advanced Respiratory Monitoring System (ARMS)

PFM/PAM drawer for Pulmonary Function System

PFM/PAM for Pulmonary Function System in operational mode

Mating of the two ATV segments

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