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Paved surfaces around a lunar base. An artist's perception. Courtesy of the European Space Agency

How to pave roads on the moon

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With the development of civilization comes roads, and this will be especially true on the moon. To do this, the dust must be kept away. In the Apollo era, dust blocked equipment and worn space suits.
Illustration courtesy of Dassault Systèmes

The European Space Agency and Dassault Systèmes will support startups in the new space field

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Startups in Europe will be able to benefit from access to Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform, from the mentoring program of the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab innovation lab, and from networking assistance
The President of the Italian Space Agency, Prof. Roberto Bettison, in a speech at the gala evening for the opening of the 13th Ilan Ramon Space Week, January 2018. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The transformation of the Italian space agency

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HASP High-altitude pseudo satellites, image: European Space Agency

The European Space Agency is developing a hybrid of drones and satellites

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The European Space Agency's ExoMars all-terrain vehicle that should take off to Mars in 2020. Figure: European Space Agency (ESA)

Europe approved a budget of 1.4 billion dollars for the Mars rover and the extension of the International Space Station

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Demonstration of comparing data before and after a forest fire in satellite images, by MUNICH RE. Screenshot

Cooperation between SAP and the European Space Agency in making observations from space accessible

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The site of Rosetta's crash landing on the comet as photographed on the spacecraft's path to it. The craters from which bubbles bubbles material that later evaporates and joins the comet's halo, allowing a glimpse of the internal composition of the comet's nucleus. Photo: European Space Agency

The historic journey has ended: the European spacecraft Rosetta landed on the comet it was studying

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: Right: President of the Italian Space Agency Roberto Battiston and Director of the Israeli Space Agency Menachem Kidron.

The Italian Space Agency signed a memorandum of understanding to expand cooperation with the Israeli Space Agency in the field of Earth observations

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The signing event of a new agreement for cooperation between Israel and France signed today to promote the Ormad research project - a device developed by MGS that will test the space environment. The signing ceremony was attended by the heads of the Israeli Space Agency - Chairman Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel and CEO Menachem Kidron, and Minister Aconis, head of the French Space Agency and French Ambassador to Israel. Photo: Israel Ben-Eli, CEO

Israel and France announced the development of a joint detector for sensing the space environment by satellites

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Researcher Claude Dugas stands on the cracked ice of an Arctic lake Photo: Claude Dugas / University of Waterloo

Another proof of warming: the ice season in the Arctic region was shortened by 24 days compared to 1950

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Three SWARM spacecraft separate from the third stage of the rocket that carried them. Figure: European Space Agency.

Sugar has launched a SWARN swarm that includes three European satellites that will study the Earth's magnetic field and why it is weakening

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A satellite burns up in the atmosphere. Illustration: shutterstock

The European GOCE satellite has crashed, not yet known exactly where but most likely in the ocean

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The satellite Goce. Photo: European Space Agency

A large European satellite is about to fall out of control - expected to fall earlier than previous estimates: 00:30-01:30

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A model of one of the Galileo satellites at an exhibition in Berlin, November 2012. Photo: shutterstock

Space Agency CEO Menachem Kidron: International collaborations enable leveraging of the Israeli space industries * Tomorrow: Live broadcast from the space station for Israeli students

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Photo taken from the Coppola module of the International Space Station by Luca Parmisano, 35/6 crew member

A window to the world

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Europe has launched the heaviest cargo spacecraft to date to the space station, named after Albert Einstein

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Satellites fly at a density that can cause collisions. Illustration: European Space Agency (ESA)

European Space Agency: clean up space, urgent!

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Image of interstellar dust from the Herschel Space Telescope

Saying goodbye to the "Herschel" telescope

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel next to the Brigitte mars rover model chosen by EADS to build for the European Space Agency at the opening of the Svit 2013 exhibition

Savit 2013: high-tech spacecraft with 30-year-old chips

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Another angle of the aerial explosion of a meteor over Russia, February 15, 2013

200 square meters of glass shattered in the city of Chelyabinsk * A senior member of the European Space Agency: apparently it is a small asteroid

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A light device that will work similar to the wipers we know from cars, to remove Martian dust from the sensors of the spacecrafts that patrol it Credit: UC3M

run and direct (wipers) on Mars

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The European Space Agency's ATV-3 supply vehicle during its construction. Photo: European Space Agency

Europe's third smart resupply spacecraft launched to the space station

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The launch of the first Vega model launcher, Kourou, French Guiana, 15/2/2012. Photo: European Space Agency

The European Space Agency's Vega launcher has made a successful maiden flight

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The only thing missing from the Mars imaging mission MARS500 was real space microgravity. At least they managed to do it through photo manipulation for the occasion of April 1st. Photo: European Space Agency

The members of the Mars 500 test team left the simulator after a year and a half

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The ROSAT satellite is approaching the atmosphere. Figure: DLR

The German ROSAT satellite fell into the Indian Ocean. There are no reports of fractures in settlement locations

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