On July 5, this year, after a five-year voyage across 12.8 billion km, NASA’s Juno spacecraft passed into the orbit of the fifth rock from the...
The European Space Agency has launched a second radar satellite into the EU's new Sentinel constellation, writes Jonathan Amos. Sentinel-1b was carried into orbit by a...
SESAR members together with partners and the European Space Agency’s Iris Precursor have carried out a joint flight trial, successfully demonstrating that existing satellite technology systems...
By Jonathan Amos The EU's latest Earth observer, Sentinel-2a, has gone operational. Users are now able to download its images of the planet, although they will...
MEP and astrophysicist Giorgos Grammatikakis The sky and stars have always fascinated us and life outside our planet remains one of the great mysteries facing mankind....
Galileo, the EU's satellite navigation programme, has just placed two more satellites into orbit. The lift-off took place on 27 March at 22.46 CET from the...
Following the landing of the Philae lander on 12 November, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska congratulated the European Space Agency and the...