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European Space Agency to launch space debris collector in 2025 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 11, 2019
Robotic junk collector will be first mission to remove item of debris from orbit

By David Aragorn
Europe Officially Signs on for Asteroid-Smashing Effort 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 6, 2019
The Hera spacecraft will observe the effects of a NASA probe’s high-speed crash into an asteroid.

By David Aragorn
ESA Makes Robotics History With Rock Sampling Gripper Controlled from Space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 3, 2019
An astronaut was able to control a rock-sampling rover, all the way from the International Space Station.

By David Aragorn
Hera mission is approved as ESA receives biggest ever budget 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 2, 2019
At a two-day ministerial meeting held in Seville, Spain this week, the European Space Agency’s member states approved the most ambitious plan to date by agreeing to provide nearly 12.5 billion euros ($13.8 billion) for the next three years to boost the future of ESA and the whole European space sector. This is the agency’s biggest increase in funds in the last 25 years.

By David Aragorn
Daring Mars mission to send rocks back to Earth in hunt for past life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 26, 2019
Europe poised to join US in complex plan to find evidence of fossil microbes on red planet

By David Aragorn
Advocates promote planetary defense mission ahead of ESA ministerial 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
A group of planetary defense advocates is asking European governments to fund a mission to a near Earth asteroid, three years after a similar mission failed to win approval.

By David Aragorn
New ESA-Assisted Experiment Grows Human Tissue in Space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 12, 2019
This study could lead to growing artificial blood vessels in space, ready for human surgery on Earth.

By David Aragorn
European satellite in near collision with Elon Musk SpaceX craft 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 5, 2019
ESA say its Aeolus Earth observation satellite fired thrusters to avoid crash

By David Aragorn
Orbital plan for lunar space station unveiled 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 24, 2019
Mission planners at NASA and ESA have determined the orbital path of the upcoming lunar Gateway.

By David Aragorn
ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 18, 2019
Asteroid 2006 QV89, a small object 20 to 50 metres in diameter, was in the news lately because of a very small, one-in-7000 chance of impact with Earth on 9 September 2019.

By David Aragorn