Sentences with phrase «european space agency»

Today's inaugural flight of Europe's Vega rocket went off without a hitch as European Space Agency mission VV01 lit up the early morning sky above the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.

The European Space Agency (ESA) will take part in the first three missions.

The European Space Agency hopes its LISA Pathfinder mission will allow scientists to observe the universe outside the electromagnetic spectrum for the first time.

Using the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Hipparcos space observatory, astrophysicists Benoit Famaey and Alain Jorissen of the Université Libre de Bruxelles teamed up with astronomers across Europe to measure the distance and motion of more than 100,000 stars within 1000 light - years of the sun.

The OMEGA spectrometer on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has gone where no spectrometer has gone before, covering near - infrared wavelengths and offering 10 times the resolution of earlier instruments.

Biomass was one of three candidate missions that the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Earth Science Advisory Committee studied during a workshop in Graz, Austria, last month.

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna What: A joint effort between NASA and the European Space Agency to build a trio of satellites, spaced 3 million miles apart, to search for gravity waves — ripples of space - time.

The findings from Akatsuki, in an equatorial orbit, were expected to complement data coming from the European Space Agency's Venus Express, which has been in a polar orbit around the planet since April 2006.

When SMART - 1, the European Space Agency's first mission to the moon, launched in September 2003, astronomers hailed it as the testing ground for a revolutionary and efficient solar - electric - propulsion technology.

Enjoying his first space flight, European Space Agency astronaut Mogensen tested SkinSuit over two days as part of an Operational and Technical Evaluation.

The European Space Agency has a packed year ahead to work on NASA's new Orion capsule, new contracts for Ariane rockets and a new reusable space plane

Our 23/30 December issue noted that the European Space Agency had beaten NASA to the vital technology for dispensing beer in space.

The European Space Agency released the first data from its $ 750 million Gaia star - mapping mission: The new catalog contains sky positions for 1.1 billion stars, 400 million of which have never been seen before.

Kane is a member of the science team for two upcoming satellite missions — NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the European Space Agency's Characterizing ExOPLanet Satellite (CHEOPS)-- that will have HD 20782 in their sights after they launch in 2018.

Researchers have been lobbying the European Space Agency to put a LIGO - like detector in space — the Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna — sometime in the 2030s.

SkinSuit has been developed in collaboration with scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kings College London and the European Space Agency.

Our 22 June issue announced that the forerunner of the European Space Agency had been invited to play a role in the US space shuttle programme.

Although the United States and Russia lead the list of space junkers, other top contributors include the European Space Agency, Japan, France, India, and several companies.

Envisat was launched in 2002 by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Britain has a long - standing policy of avoiding any programs of the European Space Agency that involve human spaceflight, focusing its efforts on robotic science missions, earth observation, and the commercial exploitation of space.

Citizens the world over were engaged by the astronomical achievement, and now the European Space Agency and NASA are eager to learn as much as possible about the critically important celestial body of ice.

For almost three years, the European Space Agency (ESA) craft has been deeply asleep because it was travelling so far from the sun that it couldn't generate enough power through its solar arrays to be kept awake.

Right now the station is home to three space residents, Commander Max Suraev of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency.

The eSurge project, which is funded by the European Space Agency, has also demonstrated the feasibility of offering near - real time data about recent and predicted storms, which can be viewed on the new eSurgeLive web page.

A $ 110 - million European Space Agency mission called Proba - 3 is slated to fly a fully functional virtual telescope pointed at the sun in 2019.

Engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are racing to figure out what went wrong with the Schiaparelli Mars lander.

European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen wearing the SkinSuit on board the International Space Station.

The European Space Agency is planning on launching the Atmospheric Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) within the next three years, which will be able to better detect both dark and visible lightning from space, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray detector.

The European Space Agency has been more tight - fisted, concerned about its scientists being scooped.

After a flawless launch early today, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft is finally on its way to study the history of the solar system.

An innovative SkinSuit designed to reduce the debilitating physical effects of space flight has been trialled for the first time on the International Space Station (ISS) by a European Space Agency astronaut.

Using data from the European Space Agency's satellite Hipparcos, they calculate that most companions are at least tens of times as massive as Jupiter.

Five distant galaxies so choked with dust that they are completely invisible at optical wavelengths have been spotted at submillimetre wavelengths by the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope.

In about eight years, NASA and the European Space Agency plan to launch the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, called LISA.

Stephan Ulamec, the Philae project manager for the European Space Agency (ESA), said that the lander's scientific instruments were taking data and that he was confident Philae would live for another day.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has spotted an amino acid on the comet it orbits — confirming that a ball of ice and dust can hold one of life's major building blocks.

«It is amazing,» says Chris Draper, who works on the heat shield for the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter — which will go closer to the sun than any other human - made object — at Airbus Defence and Space in Stevenage, UK.

The break ultimately produced iceberg B - 44, visible in radar imagery captured September 23 with the European Space Agency's Sentinel - 1 satellite.

European Space Agency (ESA), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, Netherlands.

Russia, China and the European Space Agency are all looking at lunar missions.

Cooray originally developed this approach for the longer infrared wavelengths observed by the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory.

Herschel is a European Space Agency mission, with science instruments provided by consortia of European institutes and with important participation by NASA.

There are some bleary eyes here in the European Space Agency's control room in Darmstadt, Germany.

The first results have arrived from the Mars Express orbiter, and European Space Agency (ESA) scientists are jubilant.

Kashlinsky leads science team centered at Goddard that is participating in the European Space Agency's Euclid mission, which is currently scheduled to launch in 2020.

The study is part of a program sponsored by the Hubble Space Telescope — an international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency — to look inside 23 massive clusters first catalogued in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft has spotted an amino acid on the comet it orbits — confirming that a ball of ice and dust can hold a major building block of life.

Qiugang Zong, of the University of Massachusetts Lowell, led a team of physicists who analyzed data from the European Space Agency and NASA's Cluster spacecraft, four satellites situated at the edge of Earth's magnetic field.

The European Space Agency (ESA) comprises 15 member states (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom) plus Canada, a cooperating state.

Although the rocket that would launch Rosetta has a slightly different version of this same engine, European Space Agency officials decided today to play it safe.