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ESA - History of Europe in space. ESA and NASA join forces to land Europe’s rover on Mars. ESA and NASA are consolidating their cooperation on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission with an agreement that ensures important US contributions, such as the launch service, elements of the propulsion system needed for landing on Mars and heater ...
- Artists's Impression of Huygens on Titan
Artists's impression of Huygens on Titan. Thank you for...
- Ariane L01 Ready for Launch
The first Ariane L01 sits ready for launch in December 1979,...
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- Artists's Impression of Huygens on Titan
ESA Oral History Project. Memories and experiences of individuals playing a central role in European space cooperation
Europa Discovered. Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei’s discovery of Europa in January, 1610, transformed the way we look at the cosmos. Galileo found Europa and Jupiter’s three other large moons — Ganymede, Callisto and Io — with his homemade telescope.
25 paź 2024 · Space exploration - Milestones, Achievements, History: The first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. The first human to go into space, Yuri Gagarin, was launched, again by the Soviet Union, for a one-orbit journey around Earth on April 12, 1961.
This is a timeline of space exploration which includes notable achievements, first accomplishments and milestones in humanity's exploration of outer space. This timeline generally does not distinguish achievements by a specific country or private company, as it considers humanity as a whole.
17 sty 2014 · 1964–2014: fifty years of European cooperation in space. A new year opens, but 2014 is special: this year the space community is celebrating the anniversary of the construction of Europe as a space power and 50 years of unique achievements in space.
Major components include the Ariane 4 launcher, European participation in International Space Station, the manned Hermes spaceplane (for provisioning the Space Station), and the European Data Relay Satellite system.
