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Latest News
Latest News
ESA scales down science mission operations amid pandemic
In response to the escalating coronavirus pandemic, ESA has decided to further reduce on-site personnel at its mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany. The new adjustments require temporarily stopping instrument operation and data gathering on four Solar System missions: Cluster, ExoMars TGO, Mars Express and Solar Orbiter.
Iron is everywhere in Earth's vicinity, suggest two decades of Cluster data
Using over 18 years of data from ESA's Cluster mission, scientists have mapped the heavy metals in the space surrounding Earth, finding an unexpected distribution and prevalence of iron and shedding light on the composition of our cosmic environment.
On the origin of massive stars [heic2004]
This scene of stellar creation, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, sits near the outskirts of the famous Tarantula Nebula. This cloud of gas and dust, as well as the many young and massive stars surrounding it, is the perfect laboratory to study the origin of massive stars.
Astronomers use slime mould to map the Universe's largest structures [heic2003]
The behaviour of one of nature's humblest creatures and archival data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are helping astronomers probe the largest structures in the Universe.
LISA Pathfinder lead scientist awarded prestigious prize
Professor Stefano Vitale, principal investigator of ESA's LISA Pathfinder and currently the chair of ESA's Science Programme Committee, has been honoured with the 2020 Tycho Brahe Medal for leading the ambitious mission that demonstrated technology to detect gravitational waves from space.
Latest Announcements
Latest Announcements
The JWST Cycle 1 deadline has been delayed
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is causing significant impact and disruption on the worldwide community. Given those circumstances, STScI, NASA, ESA, and CSA have taken the decision to delay the proposal deadline for JWST Cycle 1 General Observer (GO) proposals to no earlier than 27 May 2020.
INTEGRAL Announcement of Opportunity (AO-18)
Proposals are solicited for observations with INTEGRAL in response to the Eighteenth Announcement of Opportunity, AO-18, issued 2 March 2020. This AO covers the period January to December 2021. The deadline for proposals has been postponed to 4 May, 14:00 CEST.
Solar Orbiter Launch
Solar Orbiter Launch
Solar Orbiter launch replay
Watch a replay of the live coverage of the launch of Solar Orbiter, ESA's new Sun-exploring spacecraft, which will look at our parent star from a completely new perspective. The spacecraft was launched by the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 10 February 2020.
Solar Orbiter launch media kit
Download this interactive media kit to learn more about the launch of Solar Orbiter in February 2020 and the science goals of the mission.
Latest Articles
Latest Articles
Cluster and XMM-Newton pave the way for SMILE
Shedding light on white dwarfs – the future of stars like our Sun
How Venus and Mars can teach us about Earth
Spacecraft Testing
Spacecraft Testing
#5: JUICE begins to take shape
The assembly of the flight model of ESA's JUICE spacecraft began in September, with the delivery of the spacecraft's primary structure, followed by integration of the propulsion system that will enable the mission to reach and study Jupiter and its moons.
#1: Euclid completes thermal-vacuum balance tests
This is the first entry in the Euclid Test Campaign Journal, a series of articles covering the main events during testing of the Structural and Thermal Model (STM) and Flight Model (FM) of the spacecraft.
