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ESA PR 42-2003 Antenna anomaly may affect SOHO scientific data transmission
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft expects to experience a blackout in the transmission of its scientific data during the week of 22 June 2003.
Published: 24 June 2003
Rescheduling of some Beagle 2 'cruise check-out' tests
Delay in testing the Beagle 2 probe on Mars Express
Published: 24 June 2003
Double Star announcement of opportunity for the Double Star mission
The European Space Agency solicits the scientific community to further increase the scientific return of the Double Star programme.
Published: 23 June 2003
SOHO shows First Signs of Ageing
Initial concerns over HGA problem
Published: 20 June 2003
Fifteen days after the launch of Mars Express, Europe has reaffirmed its trust in Soyuz: next stop Venus in 2005!
Just two weeks after the flawless launch of Mars Express on its way towards the Red Planet, ESA and the European-Russian company Starsem reinforced their relationship with the signature of the Venus Express launch services agreement.
Published: 19 June 2003
XMM-Newton makes the first measurement of a dead star's magnetism
Using the superior sensitivity of ESA's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, a team of European astronomers has made the first direct measurement of a neutron star's magnetic field. The results provide deep insights into the extreme physics of neutron stars and reveal a new mystery yet to be solved about the end of this star's life.
Published: 11 June 2003
Mars Express now 1 million kilometres from Earth
Mars Express now 1 million kilometres from Earth
Published: 6 June 2003
Clamps away, Mars Express eases its grip on its lander
Europe's first mission to the Red Planet, continues its successful mission with another successful 'high-risk' post-launch milestone. Mars Express engineers breathed a sigh of relief this morning at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Germany.
Published: 5 June 2003
Mars Express en route for the Red Planet

The European Mars Express space probe has been placed successfully in a trajectory that will take it beyond the terrestrial environment and on the way to Mars - getting there in late December 2003.

Published: 3 June 2003
ESA INFO 12-2003 Mars Express - how to be the fastest to the Red Planet
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Published: 2 June 2003
ESA confirms Rosetta's new target but identifies financial challenge for the mission
Following an intensive campaign of technical and scientific investigations, the ESA Science Programme Committee has confirmed that its comet-chasing mission Rosetta will now set its sights on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko. However, the putative February 2004 launch date cannot be fixed until the ESA Council has found a solution to the lack of cash in its Science Programme immediate budget.
Published: 2 June 2003
New destination for Rosetta, Europe's comet chaser
New destination for Rosetta
Published: 28 May 2003
The mysterious 'Garden-sprinkler' nebula [heic0308]
There are many mysterious objects seen in the night sky which are not really well understood.
Published: 22 May 2003
SOHO's solar wind of change
We have known for 40 years that space weather affects the Earth, which is buffeted by a 'wind' from the Sun, but only now are we learning more about its precise origins. Solving the mystery of the solar wind has been a prime task for ESA's SOHO spacecraft. Its latest findings, announced on 20 May 2003, may overturn previous ideas about the origin of the 'fast' solar wind, which occurs in most of the space around the Sun.
Published: 21 May 2003
ESA PR 31-2003 ESA's Cluster solves auroral puzzle
ESA's four Cluster spacecraft have made a remarkable set of observations that has led to a breakthrough in understanding the origin of a peculiar and puzzling type of aurora.
Published: 20 May 2003
ESA INFO 11-2003 ESA sets ambitious goals for the first European mission to Mars
On 2 June 2003, the first European mission to Mars will be launched. It will also be the first European mission to any planet. Mars Express has been designed to perform the most thorough exploration ever of the Red Planet. It has the ambitious aim of not only searching for water, but also understanding the 'behaviour' of the planet as a whole. However, the most ambitious aim of all may be that Mars Express is the only mission in more than 25 years that is daring to search for life.
Published: 20 May 2003
Eye-catching celestial helix [heic0307]
In one of the largest and most detailed celestial images ever, astronomers today unveil the coil-shaped Helix Nebula to celebrate Astronomy Day.
Published: 9 May 2003
ESA PR 28-2003 ESA's Mars Express ready for launch
Just before midnight on 2 June 2003 (23:45 local time, 19:45 CEST), a Soyuz rocket operated by Starsem will lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, and Mars Express will be on its way. The spacecraft was given the green light to launch following a successful flight readiness review on 3 May 2003.
Published: 5 May 2003
Looking for life of any shape or form
On 25 April 25 1953, James D. Watson and Francis H. Crick published an historic paper in Nature that would change the fate of modern science. They proposed that DNA, the molecule of complex life forms, had the shape of a double helix. Today, scientists from all areas are working together to answer the ultimate question: can life (in any shape or form) exist anywhere else in the Universe?
Published: 1 May 2003
Mercury shows its dark side
During the morning of 7 May 2003, the planet Mercury will slip across the face of the Sun in a rare event, known as a transit. There are only about 12 celestial alignments like this every century and you cannot view them safely without special telescopic equipment. So, let the ESA/NASA solar watchdog, SOHO, do all the hard work for you...
Published: 1 May 2003
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