On Tuesday 9 April the European Space Agency is staging the first presentation of the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), Europe’s new multifunctional spacecraft to supply the International Space Station. This […]
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Arianespace Flight 145: A landmark double success for Europe
Kourou, French Guiana, February 28, 2002 — Arianespace today successfully orbited the largest satellite ever built by Europe, using an Ariane 5 heavy-lift launcher to place the Envisat platform into […]
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Maryland Led Project Takes Big Step Toward 2005 Comet Collision
NASA’s Deep Impact project, led by University of Maryland Professor Michael A’Hearn, has passed another milestone on its road toward a January 2004 launch and a July 2005 encounter with […]
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A New Year message from the Director of the Science Programme of ESA
Dear Colleagues, The year 2001 has been a transition year in the real meaning of the word. There were no launches this year. However four missions (INTEGRAL, Rosetta, SMART-1, Mars […]
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Arianespace Maintains its Leadership in 2001 And Rises to the Challenge for the New Year
Arianespace maintained its commercial space transportation leadership in 2001, and the company will further improve its competitive position by increasing the Ariane 5’s payload lift performance in 2002. Arianespace won […]
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High-Resolution Images of Binary Star System Support Colliding Winds
On the Earth, dust is everywhere — under beds, on bookshelves, even floating in the air. We take it for granted. In space, dust is also common in cold, dark […]
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Implementation of the Recommendations of the UK NEO Task Force: An Update
It is now over 9 months since the initial Government response to the recommendations of the Task Force that I set up to report on potentially hazardous Near Earth Objects […]
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German Mars Society Balloon Mission Advances: Mission Scheduled for 2007
The plan for a Mars balloon mission proposed by the German Mars Society is now making important advances. With the final report on the preliminary flight system design nearing completion, […]
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Wish upon a shooting star – the Geminids meteor shower peaks tonight
Meteor watchers in Europe may be compensated for missing last month’s splendid Leonid meteor storm when the annual Geminids shower peaks in the early hours of Friday morning. Up to […]
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Deep Space 1 says farewell
Deep Space 1, JPL’s successful mission to test 12 advanced technologies in deep space to lower the cost and risk to future science-driven missions that use them for the first […]
