Thursday’s briefing begins with Airbus and Safran finalizing the creation of a joint venture to produce Europe’s Ariane 5 and Ariane 6 rockets.
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Australia teams up with Europe’s Earth observation community
ESA and Australia’s CSIRO national research organisation have signed an agreement which will give Australia better access to information from Europe’s Earth-observing satellites, while ESA will benefit from Australia’s scientific […]
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Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects Lead the Way to Planet Nine
In the race towards the discovery of a ninth planet in our solar system, scientists from around the world strive to calculate its orbit using the tracks left by the […]
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Purdue, CU-Boulder study shows how comets break up, make up
A new study led by Purdue University and the University of Colorado Boulder indicates the bodies of some periodic comets – objects that orbit the sun in less than 200 […]
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Soyuz upper stage “irregularity” mars successful Glonass launch
Tuesday’s briefing begins with Russian media reports that Sunday’s otherwise successful launch of a Glonass navigation satellite was marred by a problem with the launcher’s upper stage.
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ESA Extends Global Ties
As an intergovernmental space agency, ESA engages with countries well beyond those of its member states. A key partnership is with Argentina, one of South America’s most space-connected countries. Argentina […]
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SwRI-led team identifies clathrate ices in comet 67P
For decades, scientists have agreed that comets are mostly water ice, but what kind of ice — amorphous or crystalline — is still up for debate. Looking at data obtained […]
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Earth Observation Satellite Program, SPOT, Celebrates Three Decades of Success and Innovation
On 22 February 1986, a unique success story began: Europe’s first Earth observation satellite, SPOT 1, lifted off from Kourou on board an Ariane 1 launcher. It opened the door […]
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Philae Comet Lander Faces Eternal Hibernation
Silent since its last call to mothership Rosetta seven months ago, the Philae lander is facing conditions on Comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko from which it is unlikely to recover. Rosetta, which continues […]
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ESA’s Asteroid Micro-Lander
This is the micro-lander that ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission would put down on its target asteroid. The asteroid body in question is just 170 m in diameter the smaller […]
