On monday 16 Januay ESA Director Jean Jaques dordain will meet the Press at ESA Headquarters in Paris to take stock of achievements in 2005 and to announce the main events.
This exchange includes background footage to cover this story, including soundbites by Jean Jacques Dordain recorder a few deay ago in Paris

2006 preview
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Expectations for the future are often linked to past events. This is particularly true for ESA in 2006 as it reflects on perhaps the most extraordinary 12 months in its 30-year history. In 2005, ESA landed on Titan, sent a probe to Venus and discovered ice on Mars. Ariane 5 was back in business with five launches, an ESA astronaut visited the ISS in April, and Europeís first navigation system satellite went into orbit as the year came to a close. (Images: Huygens landing on Titan, Venus Express animation, Journey, Discovery of ice on Mars/ Image , Ariane5 launch /,Vittori visits ISS/, Giove Launch/Krenotec)
Interview/Jean-Jacques Dordain - ESA Director General "" 2005 has been very great, it's a great year. Starting in January with the arrival on Titan and the discovery of a new world and finishing with the launch of the first satellite of Galileo, which is the first stone of the European Navigation system, also a successful council at Ministerial level shaping the fu