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Two more Galileo satellites poised for launch in May
Another pair of Galileo navigation satellites is scheduled for launch by Soyuz rocket in May, ahead of a quartet on an Ariane 5 in the autumn, bringing the Galileo system a step closer to operational use.
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Eastern Desert
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A image of the Eastern Desert in Egypt, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme -
Cluster's Earth #selfie
Operations image of the week: After 16 years, a recommissioned, low-resolution ‘webcam’ on a Cluster satellite has snapped a #selfie with Earth -
Sentinel-3 and the ocean carbon conundrum
Each year, about a quarter of the carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere ends up in the ocean, but how it happens is still not fully understood. The Sentinel-3A satellite is poised to play an important role in shedding new light on this exchange.
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World’s corals under threat
The current El Niño weather phenomenon is taking its toll on coral reefs, prompting a field campaign to the middle of the Pacific Ocean to explore how Europe’s Sentinel-2 satellite might be able to quantify the damage on a large scale.
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New age of orbits
Technology image of the week: a new kind of orbit using a solar sail to take up position above Earth’s polar regions -
Freefall achieved on LISA Pathfinder
On Monday, the two cubes housed in the core of ESA’s LISA Pathfinder were left to move under the effect of gravity alone – another milestone towards demonstrating technologies to observe gravitational waves from space.
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Boarding soon
Save the date: media and social media accreditation details for our ExoMars 2016 launch event, to be held at ESA in Darmstadt, on 14 March are coming soon -
Fuelled for Mars
Space Science Image of the Week: The ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter propellant tanks are filled for the launch in March -
ESA in partnership with Europe’s railways
Europe’s railway network plays a vital role in keeping our continent on the move. A new ESA initiative is considering the ways that space can add value to the network as it enters its third century of operations.
