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News and updates from the European Space Agency's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.


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Satellite navigation system guides visually-impaired pedestrians
Seen from a distance, a blind man guided by his dog in the streets of Madrid seems quite sure of his way. In fact, he is not listening to music with his headphones but receiving directions to his destination: "turn to the right, turn to the left, continue straight ahead…" Thanks to a mobile phone combined with a position receiver and a voice synthesizer he can walk confidently through the city while being guided by satellite. Developed by ESA, with the Spanish firm GMV Sistemas, this device offe...

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[ Mon, 19 June 2006 10:00:00 +0100 ]


Columbus delivered to KSC
Bernardo Patti, ESA's project manager for the Columbus laboratory - one of Europe's main contributions to the International Space Station - talks about the module's transatlantic journey from Bremen, in Germany, to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, the United States.ESApod audio programme...

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[ Mon, 12 June 2006 15:00:00 +0100 ]


ISS update 2006
For over five years, astronauts from around the world have been living and working together 400 kilometres above the Earth on board the biggest outpost ever built in space. The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the largest research projects ever and involves Europe, the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada. Over the next few years, ISS operations will combine further growth and exploitation. Europe's involvement means thousands of engineers and scientists participate in leading-edg...

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[ Fri, 2 June 2006 15:00:00 +0100 ]


Craters revealed
Geology, evolution and even the age of rocky planets and moons can be traced down by the study of impact craters - planetary scars left by the bombardment of asteroids and comets....

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[ Wed, 31 May 2006 13:00:00 +0100 ]


ISD2006, Industry Space Days at ESTEC
This year's ISD2006 brings together more than 700 representatives from small and medium enterprises (SMEs), system integrators, institutions, product suppliers and service providers to allow them to identify tomorrow's industrial strategies and business opportunities within the sector. Focus is on SMEs in Europe and Canada, and improving their involvement in space activities and fostering cross-fertilisation within the space sector....

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[ Tue, 30 May 2006 13:00:00 +0100 ]


An asteroid named ESA
Since the beginning of this year, a new name appears in the list of the known asteroids that inhabit our Solar System. The name is 'ESA', which stands for 'European Space Agency'....

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[ Fri, 19 May 2006 10:30:00 +0100 ]


ESA showcased at ILA, Berlin
ESA is participating at ILA together with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), BDLI and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in a special pavilion within the "International Space Village", entitled Space for Life, Europe in Space....

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[ Wed, 17 May 2006 18:30:00 +0100 ]


Something in the air?
The atmosphere took centre stage at a five-day conference held by ESA in Frascati, Italy, with 250 scientists presenting and comparing results from ongoing atmospheric research from ESA’s Envisat satellite....

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[ Thu, 11 May 2006 17:00:00 +0100 ]


Via broadband from the Arctic
Explorer Marc Cornelissen describes challenges of Arctic expedition from Greenland Ice Cap. With him are six students from the Climate Change College helping with ESA’s CryoSat-2 validation campaign....

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[ Mon, 08 May 2006 15:00:00 +0100 ]


Thoughts on Venus
As Venus Express arrives at its namesake destination, ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier discusses the enigmatic planet and muses on its beauty and fascinating planetary evolution....

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[ Wed, 20 Apr 2006 17:00:00 +0100 ]


Thoughts on Venus
As Venus Express arrives at its namesake destination, ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier discusses the enigmatic planet and muses on its beauty and fascinating planetary evolution....

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[ Wed, 20 Apr 2006 17:00:00 +0100 ]


Venus Express powers into orbit
Confirmation that Venus Express had successfully entered orbit came from ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, in Germany, today at 11:12 CEST. After a tense engine burn and blackout while the spacecraft swung behind Venus, mission controllers re-established the radio telemetry link with Venus Express marking successful arrival at the planet....

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[ Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:00:00 +0100 ]


Venus Express powers into orbit
Confirmation that Venus Express had successfully entered orbit came from ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, in Germany, today at 11:12 CEST. After a tense engine burn and blackout while the spacecraft swung behind Venus, mission controllers re-established the radio telemetry link with Venus Express marking successful arrival at the planet....

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[ Thu, 11 Apr 2006 13:00:00 +0100 ]


Drama in mission control
ESAPod goes to the heart of Venus Express and meets with a veteran ESA operations engineer in the mission control centre. The large, well-equipped Main Control Room enables flight controllers to work as a focussed team during critical events and gives them the central facilities they need to communicate with support teams worldwide....

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[ Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:00:00 +0100 ]


Drama in mission control
ESAPod goes to the heart of Venus Express and meets with a veteran ESA operations engineer in the mission control centre. The large, well-equipped Main Control Room enables flight controllers to work as a focussed team during critical events and gives them the central facilities they need to communicate with support teams worldwide....

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[ Thu, 10 Apr 2006 12:00:00 +0100 ]


Ears to the sky
Venus Express is being telecommanded via the 35-meter deep-space station in Cebreros, Spain -- the newest station to join ESA's global ESTRACK network. Cebreros communicates at X-band Gigaherz radio frequencies, far higher than commercial FM radio frequencies and similar to the ultrahigh frequencies used by mobile phones....

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[ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:00:00 +0100 ]


Ears to the sky
Navigating Venus Express is a devilishly difficult problem as computations must take into account all sources of gravity working on the spacecraft. ESA scientists use good old-fashioned classical physics first clarified by Newton, Kepler and others some 400 years ago....

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[ Thu, 05 Apr 2006 16:00:00 +0100 ]


Pathways in space
Navigating Venus Express is a devilishly difficult problem as computations must take into account all sources of gravity working on the spacecraft. ESA scientists use good old-fashioned classical physics first clarified by Newton, Kepler and others some 400 years ago....

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[ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:00:00 +0100 ]


Critical manoeuvres
"If something goes wrong, it could either fly by Venus or hit the planet." The Venus Express Project Manager, Don McCoy, recently spoke to ESAPod on the intense preparations for the critical April 11th orbit insertion. He says ESA mission control teams are well prepared for arrival....

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[ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:00:00 +0100 ]


Wavelength windows
Gathering data from above Venus' thick atmosphere is very difficult. A remarkable series of spectral windows allow Venus Express instruments to 'see' through to the surface. The existence of these spectral windows was unknown until the early 1980s when they were discovered, as many key scientific phenomena are, by chance. ...

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[ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:00:00 +0100 ]


Pathways in space
Navigating Venus Express is a devilishly difficult problem as computations must take into account all sources of gravity working on the spacecraft. ESA scientists use good old-fashioned classical physics first clarified by Newton, Kepler and others some 400 years ago....

MORE... | LISTEN | DOWNLOAD | MOBILE DEVICE

[ Thu, 05 Apr 2006 09:00:00 +0100 ]


Critical manoeuvres
"If something goes wrong, it could either fly by Venus or hit the planet." The Venus Express Project Manager, Don McCoy, recently spoke to ESAPod on the intense preparations for the critical April 11th orbit insertion. He says ESA mission control teams are well prepared for arrival....

MORE... | LISTEN | DOWNLOAD | MOBILE DEVICE

[ Thu, 05 Apr 2006 09:00:00 +0100 ]


Wavelength windows
Gathering data from above Venus' thick atmosphere is very difficult. A remarkable series of spectral windows allow Venus Express instruments to 'see' through to the surface. The existence of these spectral windows was unknown until the early 1980s when they were discovered, as many key scientific phenomena are, by chance. ...

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[ Thu, 05 Apr 2006 09:00:00 +0100 ]


Volcanoes and lava flows
Earth's surface has been renewed over the eons by plate tectonics, volcanism and other processes. But Venus does not appear to have tectonic plate activity. What is certain is that the surface of Venus has been shaped by deformation of the crust and volcanic activity. Venus volcanism indicates that, at least in the past, the crust was laying on a liquid mantle, as on Earth. The key question is, are volcanoes still active on Venus ...

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[ Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:00:00 +0100 ]


Volcanoes and lava flows
Earth's surface has been renewed over the eons by plate tectonics, volcanism and other processes. But Venus does not appear to have tectonic plate activity. What is certain is that the surface of Venus has been shaped by deformation of the crust and volcanic activity. Venus volcanism indicates that, at least in the past, the crust was laying on a liquid mantle, as on Earth. The key question is, are volcanoes still active on Venus today?...

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[ Thu, 04 Apr 2006 17:00:00 +0100 ]


Science from Above
In Part 5 of ESA's special Venus Express Podcast series, we speak with Dr Gerhard Schwehm about the instruments onboard Venus Express and how scientific data can be gathered by planetary missions remotely from above. (Note: Part 4 will be posted in a couple of days.)...

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[ Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:00:00 +0100 ]


Science from Above
In Part 5 of ESA's special Venus Express Podcast series, we speak with Dr Gerhard Schwehm about the instruments onboard Venus Express and how scientific data can be gathered by planetary missions remotely from above. (Note: Part 4 will be posted in a couple of days.)...

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[ Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:00:00 +0100 ]


Alien greenhouse
Venus suffers from a runaway Greenhouse Effect responsible for transforming Earth's near-twin into one of the Solar System's most hellish places. Venus Express aims to unlock the mysteries behind this atmospheric collapse and gather data that scientists will use to better understand the Earth and Mars -- and whether life could exist in other solar systems....

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[ Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:40:00 +0100 ]


Alien greenhouse
Venus suffers from a runaway Greenhouse Effect responsible for transforming Earth's near-twin into one of the Solar System's most hellish places. Venus Express aims to unlock the mysteries behind this atmospheric collapse and gather data that scientists will use to better understand the Earth and Mars -- and whether life could exist in other solar systems....

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[ Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:40:00 +0100 ]


Amateur eyes on a hot planet
In Part 2 of ESA's special Venus Express Podcast series, we cover the Venus Amateur Observing Project, a unique proposal to engage amateur astronomers in observing Venus. The aim is to help scientists validate Venus Express data and gather scientifically useful images to complement the spacecraft's observations of the planet....

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[ Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:30:00 +0100 ]

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