A rare reentry of a suspected rocket body from a very high orbit next month offers an excellent opportunity to gather data to improve our knowledge of how objects interact with Earth’s atmosphere.
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African high point
Technology image of the week: the glacier topping Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro, imaged by Proba-V minisatellite -
Navigation winners
Starting with 515 ideas from 40 countries in this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition, 37 winners were announced in Berlin -
Landing site recommended for ExoMars 2018
Oxia Planum has been recommended as the primary candidate for the landing site of the ExoMars 2018 mission.
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Knee problems
Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Scanning knees to reveal cartilage health in space and on Earth -
30 million views
We’re proud to have passed a big milestone on our YouTube channel – thanks for watching! -
Climate Cube in Paris
The Climate Cube sitting on the Champs-Elysées focuses on how vital satellites are for understanding climate change, and how space is playing a major role in climate research and climate change mitigation -
Saturn and Dione
Space Science Image of the Week: Saturn’s moon Dione, viewed from the Cassini orbiter, crossing the face of its parent planet -
ESA’s first technology nanosatellite reporting for duty
ESA’s first technology-testing CubeSat, released last week from the International Space Station, is in good health and is set to start work on its six-month mission.
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Deep blue Red Sea reefs
Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A image of the Red Sea coral reefs, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme -
Sentinel-3A shows off
Before the latest satellite for Copernicus is packed up and shipped to the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia for launch at the end of the year, the media and specialists were given the chance to see this next-generation mission centre-stage in the cleanroom.
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Rover school
Technology image of the week: prototype rovers and landers in ESA’s test environment ‘Mars Yard’
