European space agency News
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The European Space Agency announced its fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle has been named Georges Lemaître, after the Belgian scientist who provided the first observational estimation of the Hubble constant, which was later called the Big Bang theory.
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This week marked the successful launch of the European Space Agency's first Vega rocket from their launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana.
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NASA revealed an image of the oldest recorded supernova on record. The image, which combines data from four telescopes, shows RCW 86, which is approximately 8,000 light-years away and is 85 light-years in diameter.
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Vladimir Popovkin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said Thursday that Russia is discussing with NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) a proposal for manned permanent research base on the Moon.
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Incredible images of the universe taken by the Herschel telescope have been published online by the European Space Agency with a new image of the Eagle Galaxy just released
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The European Space Agency announced a team using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently zoomed in on a faint Milky Way star in the constellation Leo that has so few elements it falls into the "forbidden zone" of a widely accepted star formation theory.
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Our planet actually looks like a big potato, at least according to European Space Agency's GOCE satellite that shows the uneven distribution of gravity on Earth. The geoid map will help us better understand our planet.
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The picture of a thin galaxy located near the Virgo cluster, a set of approximately 2000 galaxies about 60 million light years away, shows one of the most precise alignments known of the universe. The picture was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The international team of six volunteers completed on Friday the first 100 days of a simulated flight to Mars to test the psychological demands, compatibility and tolerance of crew members during an interplanetary flight.
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The European Space Agency will show off many of the Herschel Space Observatory's amazing astronomical images on a new website.
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European space agency Headlines
Member state delegations to the European Space Agency reiterate their desire to press ahead with missions to Mars in 2016 and 2018.
Engineers are battling to save the European Space Agency's flagship Earth observation mission - the eight-tonne Envisat.
The European Space Agency (Esa) is to mount a billion-euro mission to Jupiter and its icy moons.
The European Space Agency is to mount a billion-euro mission to Jupiter and its icy moons, launching in 2022.
The European Space Agency initiates a series of small science missions to complement its flagship planetary probes and space telescopes.
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