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Sat, 12/24/2011 - 21:18 by Sam Ross
A hollow metallic ball with a circumference of 1.1 meters fell from the sky in the distant area of Namibia, leaving authorities puzzled about where it came from.
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Wed, 08/17/2011 - 17:50 by Jaspreet Virk
A giant asteroid is hurtling towards our planet and scientists are gearing up to launch mission to avert its disastrous collision with Earth.
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Tue, 11/23/2010 - 07:07 by Prince damin
Cologne, Germany -- Members of the European Space Agency's newest class of astronauts received their diplomas Monday after their first round of training, officials said.
The six candidates received their diplomas at a ceremony at the European Astronaut Center in Cologne, Germany, an ESA release said.
The official Basic Training covered space engineering, electrical engineering, various scientific disciplines and the major systems of the International Space Station and other space vehicles, officials said.
They also underwent training in scuba diving to prepare for spacewalks, robotics, survival training, rendezvous and docking, and lessons in the Russian language.
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Tue, 10/19/2010 - 07:19 by Prince damin
Paris -- Farmers in Europe may soon get a hand in managing their fields courtesy of satellite observation and navigation, European Space Agency officials say.
The agency's TalkingField initiative will allow for more precision in farming methods to produce crops more efficiently, an ESA release says.
"There are existing services variously employing Earth observation data, satellite navigation, farm management software and crop growth models, but TalkingFields is the first to combine them all," ESA's Tony Sephton said.
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Wed, 09/08/2010 - 10:50 by Rakhi
Paris -- A European scientific satellite that had lost touch with its controllers has been fixed and is transmitting data again, European Space Agency officials said.
The recovery in the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer satellite came earlier than expected after round-the-clock efforts by a team of experts, an ESA release said Tuesday.
The GOCE satellite, designed to map variations in Earth's gravity field with extreme detail and accuracy, malfunctioned July 8 and stopped sending its flow of scientific data to the ground.
The problem was quickly narrowed to a communication link between the spacecraft's scientific instruments and the telemetry modules responsible for transmitting data to Earth.
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Thu, 09/02/2010 - 10:12 by Rakhi
Paris -- An inexpensive unmanned aircraft system developed with the European Space Agency can provide quick monitoring of land areas or disaster zones, researchers say.
German company MAVinci has developed sat-nav guided autonomous micro-air vehicles with a wingspan of less than 7 feet, an ESA release said Wednesday.
"At the moment, the remote-sensing market uses mainly manned aeroplanes," Johanna Born, CEO of MAVinci, says, "but they are expensive and not always available."
"Our MAVs are cost-efficient, available at short notice and easy to use for surveillance of development areas, construction sites, disaster zones and waste disposal sites, just to mention a few," Born said.
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Tue, 08/24/2010 - 11:30 by Prince damin
Paris -- A European Space Agency observation satellite has suffered a computer glitch - its second -- and can't transmit its data to the ground, agency officials say.
The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer spacecraft -- launched in March 2009 --is orbiting Earth on a mission to make the most precise maps of minute variations in gravity on the continents and oceans across the globe, the BBC reported Monday.
A problem with the processor in the satellite's main computer forced operators to switch over to its backup computer system in February. Now that unit has developed a fault, and engineers are struggling to return the spacecraft to full operation.
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Thu, 07/15/2010 - 10:57 by Pankaj Damin
Paris -- Officials says astronaut candidates in the European Space Agency are being given survival training -- how to survive on the ground, that is.
Astronauts must be ready to face anything in space, but must also be prepared for anything on land if, for example, a spacecraft returning from the International Space Station had to make an emergency landing in the sea, desert, tropical rain forest or on a glacier, in summer or winter, an ESA release said last week.
Before being rescued, they could have to rely on very basic items and the emergency packs in their Soyuz capsule, making survival training a vital part of basic training for all astronauts, the ESA said.
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Sun, 07/11/2010 - 15:41 by Jaspreet Virk
Asteroid Lutetia will no longer remain a mystery as the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta has captured the first close-up images of the asteroid, which will help them gain insights into the composition of the space rock that has long puzzled the scientists.
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Tue, 06/22/2010 - 10:43 by Pankaj Damin
Paris -- The European Space Agency announced Jean-Jacque Dordain will continue as its director general for another four years.
ESA officials said the Council of the European Space Agency approved the third extension of his tenure last week. Dordain has served as ESA director general since 2003, presiding over several European space milestones, including the landing of the ESA's Huygens probe on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the launch of Europe's Venus Express probe, and the creation and launch of its GMES, GIOVE-A and Galileo satellites.
Dordain is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, the French Academy of Technology and an associate member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 10:29 by Rakhi
Moscow -- The European Space Agency says the first full-duration, 520-day simulation of a human mission to Mars is about to begin.
The ESA said the record-breaking experiment is to start June 3 at Russia's Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow when the isolation facility is sealed.
The six-member crew will live and work as astronauts do on the International Space Station, performing maintenance duties, scientific experiments and daily exercise. They will follow a seven-day week, with two days off, except when special and emergency situations are simulated, officials said.
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Fri, 05/14/2010 - 09:48 by Rakhi
Paris -- The European Space Agency says European science and manufacturing is keeping the International Space Station in operation.
"Already now, more than a third of the pressurized station elements are built and designed in Europe and European knowhow is keeping station in operation," Simonetta Di Pippo, the ESA's director of human spaceflight, said.
Additional spare parts from Europe will be aboard space shuttle Atlantis, scheduled to lift off Friday on its final planned mission to the space station.
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