Earth Explorers take centre stage at Le Bourget

Earth Explorers take centre stage at Le Bourget

19-06-2013 04:25 PM CEST

ESA's new Biomass mission and the numerous accomplishments from the existing Earth Explorer satellites came into focus today at the Paris Air and Space Show.

Cassini Probe to Take Photo of Earth From Deep Space

Cassini Probe to Take Photo of Earth From Deep Space

06/18/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19.

European Space Agency YouTube Update

Paris Air and Space Show 2013 - Press conference: Jean-Jacques Dordain

18-06-2013 05:02 PM CEST

Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, provided an overview of ESA programmes and answered questions from media at the Paris Air and Space Show 2013.

European Space Agency Flickr Update

ATV-4 approaches the ISS

18-06-2013 04:26 PM CEST

ATV Albert Einstein, Europe's supply and support ferry, docked with the International Space Station on 16 June 2013, some ten days after its launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

In this image you can see ATV's four solar panel arrays along with the vertical antenna on top. This antenna is the 'proximity boom' that is used to communicate with the Station.

ATV Albert Einstein brought 7 tonnes of supplies, propellants and experiments to the complex. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano oversees the unloading and cataloguing of the cargo of over 1400 individual items.

Credits: ESA/NASA

NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge

NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge

06/18/2013 12:00 AM EDT

NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.

First American Woman in Space

First American Woman in Space

06/18/2013 12:00 AM EDT

On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7.

As one of the three mission specialists on the STS-7 mission, she played a vital role in helping the crew deploy communications satellites, conduct experiments and make use of the first Shuttle Pallet Satellite.
In this image, Dr. Ride sits in the aft flight deck mission specialist's seat during deorbit preparations. › Read more about Sally Ride's historic flight.

Image Credit: NASA

Talking Alphasat

Talking Alphasat

18-06-2013 05:52 PM CEST

Round table with the Alphasat partners at Paris Air and Space Show 18 June