Apologies in advance, couldn’t resist choosing “Another Opportunity” as a thread title.
The ESA spacecraft Schiaparelli will be landing on Mars 29th October this year, almost within spitting distance of the NASA Mars rover Opportunity.
http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Spotlight_on_Schiaparelli_s_landing_site
For other news from ESA, see http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_News
Cassini is now so far away that communication with it has become an interesting technical challenge.
Cubesats dock together in a new docking strategy.
Europe citizens debate on science.
Aladin wind probe ready for Aeolus. 2 August 2016 It has been years in the making, but one of the trickiest pieces of space technology ever developed
Hexapods designed originally for the JWST are being spun off for boat and oil rig stabilisation.
Cryosat , most accurate satellite sea level monitoring ever.
Permanent underwater astronaut training base set up off the coast of Florida.
Active tracking of astronaut radiation exposures to replace passive dosimeters.
Sentinel-2B will be the next satellite launched for Europe’s environmental Copernicus programme. In 2017, it will join its identical twin, Sentinel-2A, to supply high-resolution images for numerous applications, from monitoring the health of the world’s vegetation and changes the way land is used, to mapping regions struck by natural disasters. The two satellites orbiting 180° apart and their 290 km-wide swaths allows Earth’s main land surfaces, large islands, and inland and coastal waters to be covered every five days.