The International Day of Human Space Flight is an opportunity to celebrate our exploration of space, marking the day Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth and became the first human in space. Since then, progress has been made: we have been to the Moon, built an orbital laboratory, the International Space Station (ISS), and sent probes […]
ExoMars to take off for the Red Planet in 2022
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red Planet to 2022. The joint ESA-Roscosmos project team evaluated all the activities needed for an authorisation to launch, in order to analyse the risks and schedule. With due consideration […]
Enigma: a dwarf star produces a supereruption
A star of about eight percent the Sun’s mass has been caught emitting an enormous ‘super flare’ of X-rays – a dramatic high-energy eruption that poses a fundamental problem for astronomers, who did not think it possible on stars that small. J0331-27 The culprit, known by its catalogue number J0331-27, is a kind of star […]
ESA and EDA will continue their joint research
ESA and the European Defence Agency (EDA) are embarking on new cooperative projects for exploring unknown or potentially hazardous environments: harnessing drones for the monitoring of disaster-stricken regions or toxic spill sites and making use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to navigate across the surface of asteroids or other terra incognita. These two new joint projects […]
European Space Week 2019
Preparations are already well underway for European Space Week 2019, which this year will take place in Helsinki, in the Finnish capital on December 3-5. The week will be packed full of events ranging from discussions and conference sessions, to the E-GNSS User Assembly, and much more. This year’s European Space Week will focus on […]
Space19: Road to ESA’s Council at Ministerial Level
ESA’s Ministerial Councils bring together ESA’s Member States and observers every two to three years to decide on new proposals and funding for ESA’s next years of work. The next one, called ‘Space19+’, will be held in November 2019. European ministers in charge of space activities will gather in Sevilla, Spain, to decide on ESA’s […]
Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs: Earth observation data and applications (Copernicus)
This call (COS-CLUSINT-2019-3-01-Strand2B), which aims to promote access to international markets for space observation services provided through the EU space project Copernicus, falls under the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises. Strand 2.b will support the first implementation, testing and development of up to two ‘European Strategic Partnerships of […]
Postdoctoral contract LSPE-STRIP 2019 in the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute
The Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute (IAC in Spanish) of Tenerife announces the signing of a postdoctoral contract to work on the LSPE-STRIP (P/301503) and “Precision Cosmology with CMB” (AYA2017-84185-P) projects, led at the IAC by Dr. José Alberto Rubiño-Martin. Research topics at the IAC cover most fields of astrophysics, including solar physics, planetary systems, stellar […]