Tag: European Space Agency
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European Mars lander released from ExoMars mothership
Artist’s concept showing separation of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and the Schiaparelli landing module. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab A saucer-shaped entry, descent and landing demonstrator separated from Europe’s ExoMars orbiter Sunday, beginning a three-day approach aiming to become the first European-built craft to set down on the red planet and return data. Named for Giovanni…
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Ariane 5 goes on test run after launching two satellites
The Ariane 5 rocket lifted off at 2030 GMT (4:30 p.m. EDT; 5:30 p.m. French Guiana time) with the Sky Muster 2 and GSAT 18 communications satellites. This view of the launch comes from the Toucan observation deck about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the pad. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG –…
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Ariane 5 goes on test run after launching two satellites
The Ariane 5 rocket lifted off at 2030 GMT (4:30 p.m. EDT; 5:30 p.m. French Guiana time) with the Sky Muster 2 and GSAT 18 communications satellites. This view of the launch comes from the Toucan observation deck about 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the pad. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG –…
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Rosetta’s last photos of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Just before settling to a soft crash landing Friday, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft captured close-range images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, peering into a stadium-sized pit and recording a final dataset to keep scientists busy long after the mission’s end. The craft’s OSIRIS science camera took images throughout Rosetta’s descent and sent the data back…
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Rosetta mission ends with comet touchdown
Sequence of images captured by Rosetta during its descent to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The Deir el-Medina pit is just right of center. Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Europe’s Rosetta mission ended its 12-year mission Friday with a low-speed belly-flop on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, concluding an interplanetary odyssey that gave humanity a first close-up…
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Live coverage: Rosetta’s final hours
Live coverage of the final descent of Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Rosetta spacecraft heads for comet crash landing
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Artist’s concept of the Rosetta spacecraft just before impact with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab The European Space Agency’s $1.6 billion Rosetta spacecraft closed in Thursday for a deliberate crash landing on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko early Friday, a slow-motion kamikaze plunge to bring the enormously successful…
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Video: Rosetta scientist Matt Taylor on the end of mission
Astronomy Now speaks with Matt Taylor, Rosetta project scientist, at the European Space Agency’s mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, about the plan to crash land the spacecraft on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
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A virtual marketplace for a future Moon Village? The FAA just might make it happen
An artist’s conception shows a permanent lunar base that’s part of the European Space Agency’s “Moon Village” vision. (Credit: ESA) GUADALAJARA, Mexico – If the world wants to create a village on the moon, the Federal Aviation Administration is willing to start up an online trading post for lunar services. George Nield, the FAA’s associate administrator for commercial…
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First map from Europe’s Gaia satellite charts a billion stars in our Milky Way
This composite image shows an all-sky view of stars in our Milky Way galaxy, plus neighboring galaxies. Click on the image for a larger, annotated version. (Credit: ESA / Gaia / DPAC) The team behind the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite has released its first catalog of more than a billion stars in our Milky Way…