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ESA successfully launches "environment data" satellite

A Russian Soyuz rocket has blasted off from Kourou in French Guiana carrying a satellite aimed at increasing our understanding of the environment

26/04/2016

World News

ESA's satellite launch postponed

Europe is set to have a new eye in sky and it is all about making life safer for all of us, says the European Space Agency. The Sentinel 1-B is

22/04/2016

Russia

ExoMars mission leaves Earth's orbit heading for Mars

After a successful launch, the joint European-Russian mission to sniff out signs of life on Mars has left Earth’s orbit and is heading for the Red

14/03/2016

World News

Russian-ESA Exomars blasts off to find life on the Red Planet

The ExoMars probe has blasted off on Monday (March 14) on board a Russian Proton rocket from Kazakhstan to the red planet. [no comment live] esa</a

14/03/2016

World

Methane the key to life for ExoMars 2016 mission

Scientists from the European Space Agency and Russia’s Federal Space Agency face a weekend of intense tinkering ahead of Monday’s ExoMars mission

11/03/2016

World News

Asteroid about to make a close shave with earth ... but how close?

An asteroid thought to be up to 50 metres in diameter is expected to make a close shave with our planet on Saturday, but scientists are not sure just how close

04/03/2016

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Back to gravity

A Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday

03/03/2016

Kazakhstan

Astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth after longest US space mission

An American astronaut and Russian cosmonaut have returned to Earth after an unprecedented period of almost a year in space for NASA. The time spent

02/03/2016

Kazakhstan

NASA spaceman Scott Kelly returns to Earth after record breaking ISS stint

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have arrived back on Earth after nearly a year aboard the International Space

02/03/2016

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How to build a village on the Moon

The head of the European Space Agency says he would like to build a permanent base on the Moon. We meet him to discuss that incredible plan, and head to the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne to mee

25/02/2016

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UK astronaut Tim Peake films the British Isles from the ISS

British astronaut Tim Peake films a sparkling United Kingdom from space as the International Space Station (ISS) flies over the English Channel.

20/02/2016

Russia

Europe launches Sentinel-3A satellite to help track global warming

Europe has launched a satellite it is hoped will help predict climate change patterns as well as improve everyday weather forecasting. The

16/02/2016

Kazakhstan

First part of new space 'data highway' blasts off from Kazakhstan

A new space “data highway” has taken a giant leap forward. The first building block of the European Data Relay Satellite (EDRS), a node, has blasted

30/01/2016

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Scientists predict big things for the tiny CubeSat: 'a satellite in a shoe box'

Tiny satellites the size of a small cube, jam-packed with the most advanced nanotechnologies: is this the future of Space missions? To find out, we

21/01/2016

World

How the Challenger disaster changed space exploration forever

It was the disaster that injected a shot of realism into space exploration ambitions and whose impact is still being felt today. Thirty years ago the

20/01/2016

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Happy New Year from space

Astronauts from the International Space Station, Americans Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra and Briton Tim Peake have wished a Happy New Year to everybody

29/12/2015

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The Astronaut Academy: 'This thin blue line makes our planet livable'

Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is one of the few people who's seen what planet Earth looks like as a whole during his six months on the ISS.

04/12/2015

World News

Europe's LISA Pathfinder begins search for ripples in space

A rocket carrying a European prototype satellite has blasted off from French Guiana. The trailblazing Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or

03/12/2015

World News

Launch of LISA Pathfinder now set for Thursday morning

The delayed launch of the European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder mission has now been set. Officials have announced that liftoff will now be on

02/12/2015

World

LISA Pathfinder to seek out Einstein's gravity waves, reveal true universe

From the Guiana spaceport near Kourou, just five degrees north of the equator, our correspondent Claudio Rosmino waited with baited breath for

02/12/2015