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ESA DG meets the press
ESApod, audio and video from space - January 17, 2007 14:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingOn 17 January, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain met the press at ESA headquarters in Paris to take stock of the agency's activities in 2006 and announce the main highlights for 2007. Last year saw ESA involved in a wide range of missions and activities related to space exploration, Eart...
European workshop on space exploration strategy
ESApod, audio and video from space - January 10, 2007 14:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn the historic city of Edinburgh, Scotland, ESA kicked off its series of stakeholder consultation workshops that will eventually inform the long-term European space exploration strategy. This is a key element in the preparation of the next ESA Council at Ministerial level and the space explorat...
Unfolding the Universe's Dark Matter
ESApod, audio and video from space - January 08, 2007 09:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAlthough the invisibility of dark matter makes it hard to detect, eluding scientists for decades, the team of astronomers led by Richard Massey of the California Institute of Technology has finally been able to achieve this, thanks to the of the Hubble COSMOS survey - the largest survey of the u...
COROT: In search of rocky planets
ESApod, audio and video from space - December 20, 2006 09:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSince the 1995 discovery of the first extrasolar planet, more than two hundred have been identified using ground-based telescopes. COROT will be launched on 27 December 2006 by a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, and will be placed in a polar orbit around Earth at an altitud...
ESA joins the European Network of Living Labs
ESApod, audio and video from space - December 15, 2006 13:00 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingInnovation is more and more the result of collaborative activities involving all of the participating actors in a co-creative process using emerging information, such as advanced communication techniques, the latest satellite Earth Observation data and other leading-edge technologies. Recognisi...
COROT - a new boost for exoplanets and astroseismology
ESApod, audio and video from space - December 15, 2006 13:00 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAre we alone in the Universe? Are there other planets like our own orbiting distant stars? COROT, the upcoming exoplanet-hunting mission, promises to open our eyes on new, fascinating alien worlds. ESApod audio programme
Celsius Mission event in Stockholm
ESApod, audio and video from space - December 08, 2006 09:00 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA report from Stockholm, Sweden, where ESA, the Swedish National Space Board and the City of Stockholm are sponsoring a unique "Space Base" to mark the mission of ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang - a native of Sweden - to the ISS. ESApod video programme
ASTRA 2006: ESA workshop on robotics and automation
ESApod, audio and video from space - December 04, 2006 13:00 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingESA's Aurora Programme for robotic and human exploration of the Solar System is expected to increase the need for space automation and robotics. The research and development needed to make these ambitions a reality is already underway. ESApod takes a look at the ongoing European activities which...
The Celsius Mission
ESApod, audio and video from space - November 29, 2006 11:00 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSwedish ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang will fly to the ISS in December 2006 as part of the seven-strong STS-116 Space Shuttle crew.The rewiring process of the ISS will begin with NASA ground control switching off power to the Station. Along with NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam, Fuglesang will fl...
Vega
ESApod, audio and video from space - November 28, 2006 09:20 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 2008, Vega will place into orbit its first small satellite missions. The new launch vehicle's reference capability is to carry a spacecraft weighing 1.5 tonnes into a polar orbit with an altitude of 700 kilometres, a relatively low orbit. The launcher is not able to inject large spacecraft in...
ISS update November 2006
ESApod, audio and video from space - November 17, 2006 13:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe ISS will grow considerably in the next few years with the addition of new solar panel generators and three research labs before being completed in 2010. During his six-month stay, German ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter, a member of the permanent ISS crew since July this year, is devoting 136 hou...
ATV docking trials
ESApod, audio and video from space - November 10, 2006 10:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Automated Transfer Vehicle, 20 tonnes and the size of a London double-decker bus, is the largest spacecraft ever built in Europe. The unmanned vehicle will be used to ferry cargo to the International Space Station and to raise its orbit.The first flight model, 'Jules Vernes', due to be launc...
Space Law
ESApod, audio and video from space - November 09, 2006 09:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingProf. Rene Oosterlinck, ESA Director of Directorate of External Relations explains how the issues of space law first arose during the Cold War, with the launch in 1957 of the Russian Sputnik, the world's first satellite, closely followed by the first American satellite. The race was on to be fir...
GOCE: getting the low down on gravity
ESApod, audio and video from space - November 08, 2006 10:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBy measuring the Earth's gravity field and modelling the geoid, or hypothetical surface of the Earth, with extremely high accuracy and spatial resolution, GOCE will significantly advance our knowledge of how the Earth works in several domains – oceanography, geophysics and geodesy – as well ...
The new Hubble servicing mission
ESApod, audio and video from space - October 31, 2006 15:00 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNASA has decided to launch a Space Shuttle mission in 2008 to repair and upgrade the NASA/ESA observatory. This servicing mission will ensure that Hubble can function for perhaps as many as another ten years and will increase its scientific capabilities in some key areas. Two new scientific inst...
Christer Fuglesang prepares for take-off
ESApod, audio and video from space - October 24, 2006 09:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn 1992 Christer Fuglesang was chosen as a crew member of the STS-116 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station, which is now scheduled for launch in December 2006. Fuglesang started training at Star City cosmonaut training centre near Moscow, Russia, in 1993. It was here he first...
MetOp-A launch
ESApod, audio and video from space - October 19, 2006 17:50 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWith an array of sophisticated instrumentation, MetOp-A promises to provide data of unprecedented accuracy and resolution on a host of different variables such as temperature and humidity, ocean surface wind speed and direction and concentrations of ozone and other trace gases – thus marking a...
Controlling Columbus
ESApod, audio and video from space - October 17, 2006 10:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingActivity is increasing at the Columbus Control Centre, the ground control facility for Europe's Columbus laboratory. Following the launch of Columbus to the International Space Station in 2007, a team of some 80 scientists and engineers based at the control centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, w...
Water on Mars
ESApod, audio and video from space - October 16, 2006 10:00 - 7 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSince its arrival in December 2003 Europe's Mission to Mars has been studying the composition of the atmosphere, mapping the surface and diving into the subsurface of Earth's neighbour to find further evidence that water once flowed on the planet and could still be present. The High Resolution S...
Astrolab mission control
ESApod, audio and video from space - October 10, 2006 14:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA report from the Columbus Control Centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, where a team of engineers and managers are providing support to the Astrolab Mission - Europe's first long-duration mission to the International Space Station (ISS). During his six-month stay on the ISS, ESA astronaut Thomas...
Understanding Titan's tholins
ESApod, audio and video from space - October 06, 2006 10:30 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBefore the 2005 Huygens mission to Titan, ground-based observations, and the first Voyager fly-by, had revealed a nitrogen-and-methane-dominated atmosphere, suitable for the formation of carbon-rich compounds. Additional data from Huygens show that the solid particles in Titan's atmosphere are m...
ESA at the IAC in Valencia
ESApod, audio and video from space - October 05, 2006 15:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is organised each year by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and its associates. IAC 2006 is being held in Valencia's City of Arts, attended by over 2500 delegates - including the heads of all the major space agencies, industry, academ...
ESA astronauts meet the press
ESApod, audio and video from space - September 22, 2006 17:00 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingToday, German and international media met ESA astronauts at the European Astronaut Centre, in Cologne, Germany, to discover more on their intense preparations for upcoming missions and pose questions live to Thomas Reiter on board the ISS. With the ongoing completion of the ISS, and with ESA ast...
ISS crew answers questions from space
ESApod, audio and video from space - September 15, 2006 14:45 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIn addition to those mentioned above, questions included, How high is the ISS? And one audience member was also curious as to what time it is on the ISS; since it orbits several times per day, the time 'zone' must always be changing? Listen to a lively and animated discussion with the ISS crew. ...
Mapping epidemics with satellites
ESApod, audio and video from space - September 08, 2006 08:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVery serious human diseases, such as malaria and meningitis, are linked to environmental factors. With satellite remote sensing we can gather information on these factors and help researchers to better understand diseases. The European Space Agency's Epidemio project, launched in 2004, combines ...
MARES - measuring muscle strength in space
ESApod, audio and video from space - September 06, 2006 08:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA look at MARES - the Muscle Atrophy Research and Exercise System - a pioneering new instrument for neuromuscular and exercise research on the International Space Station. ESApod video programme
Impact landing on the Moon
ESApod, audio and video from space - August 29, 2006 08:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSMART-1's instruments have been sending back brilliant new pictures of the Moon and have been looking for clues to how the Moon was formed - perhaps in a collision between the young Earth and another planet, billions of years ago. Telescopes on Earth hope to catch the final moments of the missio...
SMART-1: end of mission review
ESApod, audio and video from space - August 25, 2006 08:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLaunched in 2003, SMART-1 tested innovative technology on its way to the Moon, including the first use of a solar-electrical propulsion engine for interplanetary trips. Since it started orbiting the Moon in Spring 2005, SMART-1 started collecting a wealth of lunar images and data about the surfa...
ESA Summer School focuses on Global Change
ESApod, audio and video from space - August 04, 2006 10:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe world's leading scientists are sharing their expertise and experience with the next generation of scientists in order to teach them the practicalities of remote sensing, modelling and data assimilation techniques. A major focus is on detailing the current state of global change and its relat...
Farnborough International Airshow 2006
ESApod, audio and video from space - July 21, 2006 10:00 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe high profile event provided a forum for the leading VIPs and industry figureheads to meet, network and discuss the future of the International Space Industry. ESApod video programme
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