by Rob Coppinger | Aug 22, 2008 | ESA
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter’s Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC), originally designed to provide images of the ill-fated Beagle lander’s separation, is now back in action as the ‘Mars Webcam’. Not a scientific...
by Rob Coppinger | Aug 15, 2008 | ESA
The European Space Agency’s general studies programme is to assess a laser-based SBPS concept for Earth and for the lunar surface. Small scale science missions’ laser power transmissions will also be considered Click on the images in this post to see...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 18, 2008 | ESA
The European Space Agency has announced its intention to develop a cargo return vehicle (CARV) to bring back payload from the International Space Station. The CARV will be an evolution of the agency’s expendable Automated Transfer vehicle (ATV)The first of the...
by Rob Coppinger | May 21, 2008 | ESA
The European Space Agency could provide human spaceflight services including astronaut training, engage in partnerships with European space tourism ventures and contribute to the development of the necessary pan-European related legal framework, according to its space...
by Rob Coppinger | Apr 21, 2008 | ESA
Speaking to the European Space Agency’s human spaceflight directorate’s head of strategy and architecture office, Bernhard Hufenbach today (21 April) he spoke enthusiastically of commercial services for a lunar outpost The use of commercial services for...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 9, 2008 | ESA
In this blog posting are all the pictures released by ESA and Arianespace of the successful launch of the EADS Astrium bult Ariane 5 Evolution Storable with its Automated Transfer Vehicle Jules Verne payload Watch the video of the launch and the ATV’s...
