“The European Space Agency will be the first space agency to reach all planets in the inner solar system.” That was the assurance of Piero Messina, speaking for ESA’s Aurora […]
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ESA’s comet chaser to fly by Earth
ESA’s comet-chaser Rosetta will make a fly-by of planet Earth on 4 March 2005, and sky watchers should be able to see it with telescopes or binoculars if the sky […]
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ESA Science Chief Says Europe Needs Its Own Space Nuclear Power Options
Europe will have no choice but to develop nuclear-powered satellites if it wants to continue to explore the outer solar system, European Space Agency (ESA) Science Director David Southwood said.
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ESA Gets 10 Percent Budget Hike for 2005
PARIS — The European Space Agency (ESA) has been granted a 10 percent budget increase for 2005 to finance continued investment in launch vehicles and to pay for large new bills coming from its space-station program.
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Top High-Energy Astronomy Prize Awarded for Work on Star Explosions
Prof. Stan Woosley of University of California at Santa Cruz has won this year’s Bruno Rossi Prize for his pioneering work on star explosions, including gamma-ray bursts. The prize is […]
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SwRI Instrument Selected for NASA Lunar Orbiter Mission
NASA has selected a scientific instrument called LAMP (or Lyman Alpha Mapping Project) to be developed by Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) and flown on its upcoming Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) […]
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For ESA, a Year of Negotiations With More Expected in 2005
PARIS — European governments in 2004 resolved their most pressing space-policy issues but were forced to delay until 2005 other matters that are just as important.
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25 Years of Success for Arianespace
Evry, France, January 4, 2005 – Arianespace is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2005, marking a new milestone for the world’s first commercial launch services company that was created in […]
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CCSDS Gives SMART-1’s Data Transmissions a Turbo Boost at the Moon
TOULOUSE, France November 24, 2004 (CCSDS) – The European Space Agency (ESA) launched SMART-1 late last year making it the first satellite to have data transmissions powered by Turbo Codes, […]
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Cooking on a comet…?
One of the ingenious instruments on board Rosetta is designed to ‘smell’ the comet for different substances, analysing samples that have been ‘cooked’ in a set of miniature ovens. ESA’s […]
