Tomorrow’s orbit today? This image shows how a large solar sail-equipped satellite could partly offset Earth’s and the Sun’s gravity with the slight but steady pressure of sunlight to hover... Read more
The ESA wants its operations on other planets to have greater mobility and manoeuvrability. SINTEF researchers are looking into whether snake robots could be the answer. So far, NASA has lan... Read more
ESA is appealing for research ideas to help guide the development of a US–European asteroid deflection mission now under study. A space rock several hundred metres across is heading towards... Read more
Loss of contact with Europe’s Envisat monitor raises worries about gaps in environmental data Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) say that they have lost contact with Envisa... Read more
ESA is working on a restartable cryogenic upper stage to improve Europe’s launchers ESA and the DLR German Space Center fired a Texus rocket 263 km into space on 27 November to test a... Read more
A patch about the size of the leather name tab on a pair of jeans could save your life one day A patch about the size of the leather name tab on a pair of jeans could save your life one day... Read more