Jenny Winder
Remembrances and Reflections: Sir Patrick Moore 1923 – 2012
Sir Patrick Moore. Credit: sirpatrickmoore.com Astronomers, both professional and amateur, throughout the world, were saddened yesterday to hear of the…
GOCE – How Low Can It Go?
Caption: GOCE over ice. Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab Since March 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) mission, Gravity field…
Spaceflight: Taking it Lying Down
Caption: Bedrest volunteer in bed during a study conducted in 2005. Credit: ESA As you get older, do feel you…
Space for the Cost of a Movie Ticket
The European Space Agency (ESA) was founded by 10 European states back in 1975 with the idea that “We can…
Huge New ESA Tracking Station is Ready for Duty
Caption: ESA's giant Malargüe tracking station Credits: ESA/S. Marti To keep in contact with an ever growing armada of spacecraft…
Cheops – A Little Satellite with Big Ideas
Caption: Artist impression of Cheops. Credit: University of Bern Big isn't always better. This is certainly true at ESA's new…
Integral: Ten Years Tracking Extreme Radiation Across the Universe
Caption: Artist's impression of ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. Image credit: ESA Integral, ESA's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory launched ten…
BepiColombo – Mission to Mercury
Caption: BepiColombo’s components separating at Mercury. Image Credit: Astrium BepiColombo, due to launch in 2015, will be only the third…
1,000 mph Land Speed Record Car Fires Up Its Engines
Caption: The BloodhoundSSC. Image Credit: Curventa and Siemens. 29 years ago today Richard Noble in Thrust2 broke the land speed…
Work Begins on the World’s Largest Cosmic Ray Observatory
Caption: Lake Baikal. Credit: SeaWiFS Project NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE Construction has just begun at the Tunka Valley…