European Commission’s new space policy encourages companies to take commercial advantage of the huge earth image datasets generated by the Sentinel satellite fleet
The first of two joint European Space Agency–Roscosmos missions to Mars has begun a seven-month journey to the planet, where will it look for methane in the atmosphere and assess if the gas was generated by micro-organisms or is a result of geological activity
ESA’s latest business incubator opened last week in Sweden to welcome entrepreneurs with novel spin-off business ideas for the wealth of technologies and systems developed under Europe’s space programmes
German physicist Christiane Heinicke is spending one year as a pretend-astronaut in a Mars simulation. She talks to Science|Business about her motivation for helping to prepare humans mentally for an historic journey to the red planet
The UK-led Beagle-2 Mars lander, which hitched a ride on ESA’s Mars Express mission and was lost on Mars since 2003, has been found in images taken by a NASA orbiter at the Red Planet.
EU budget negotiations may be stalled, with possible consequences for future R&D funding. But at least one collaborative science project – the European Space Agency - has agreed its long-term funding
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