13 November 2002 Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am delighted to have the honour of addressing the European Interparliamentary Space Conference. I hope that those of you who were able […]
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ESA’s good-natured DevILS
The European Space Agency (ESA) has started a 50-million-euro initiative to bring together Europe’s leading aerospace companies for the next four years. The aim of DevILS is to develop ‘intelligent’, […]
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Comet Orbiter Shipped to South American Launch Site
Twenty instruments on the European Space Agency’s comet- chasing Rosetta spacecraft, including three from NASA, are in final tests for launch early next year. Launch from the Kourou spaceport in […]
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At that star, turn left!
Our bodies contain proteins that are made of smaller molecules that can be either left- or right-handed, depending upon their structure. Regardless of which hand we use to write, however, […]
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Challenges of Landing on Alien Worlds
Three ESA missions are due to send down robotic ‘spaceprobes’ when they arrive at their alien destinations. Since these craft will be going where no one has gone before, how […]
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ESA to search for life, but not as we know it
This week, astrobiologists are discussing what ESA’s Huygens spaceprobe might discover when it parachutes to the surface of Saturn’s mysterious moon, Titan, in 2005. Titan possesses a rich atmosphere of […]
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Timing is critical as launch windows approach
There will be greater tension than usual among engineers and scientists at Europe’s spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, in January 2003, as they gather to see ESA’s comet-chasing spacecraft Rosetta […]
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A preference for the Earth, a passion for the Universe – ESOC celebrates 35 years
On Friday 6 September 2002 the satellite control centre of the European Space Agency (ESA), in Darmstadt, will celebrate its 35th anniversary. To mark the occasion, the European Space Operations […]
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No rest on the way to the most mysterious of Saturn’s moons
After an adventurous 7-year long tour among the planets, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft will arrive at Saturn in July 2004. Once there, Cassini will parachute the Huygens probe to Saturn’s biggest […]
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Landing On A Cosmic Iceberg
Landings on other worlds are remarkably difficult to achieve. During the last 40 years, the only objects in the Solar System on which robotic spacecraft have soft-landed have been the […]
