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Part of the modeling process of the supersonic movement of gases around the falling spacecraft using "computational fluid dynamics". Figure: European Space Agency.

Destructive reentry into the atmosphere: simulation shows how spacecraft die

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Artist's impression of ESA's Envision mission to Venus. Credit: Credit: ESA/VR2Planets/Damia Bouic

The Envision mission will not have much fuel, so it is going to perform an atmospheric braking on Venus

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The project's research director on behalf of the European Space Agency: "The flight on Ariane 6 will not allow all the extra propellant that would be necessary to lower the orbit. Instead we will slow ourselves down by making repeated passes through the upper atmosphere of Venus, lowering to 130 km from the face of the planet"
Image based on processing of radar data from the Copernicus Sentinel satellites (2021), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

The European Space Agency photographed the traffic jam in the Gulf of Suez due to the stranded ship

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The giant container ship stuck in the Suez Canal in Egypt is seen in new images taken by the European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission along with the maritime traffic jam it caused.
Hera scans the DART impact crater. Figure: ESA

Europa will protect the Earth from asteroids

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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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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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Gas and dust from the surface of Churi as the comet approaches the perihelion and an explanation of the discovery of the nitrogen molecules. Photo: Credit: ESA/Rosetta/ROSINA

Rosetta discovered the most wanted molecule - nitrogen gas

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The Venus Express spacecraft in its heyday. Figure: European Space Agency

Venus (2) – Venus Express, the end of the journey

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Airbrake maneuver of the Venus Express spacecraft. Figure: European Space Agency

Venus Express - new findings part one

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Sam Golkis (left) and Kalim Churiomov from the Comet Explorers at the event in honor of the landing of Philae. In the background, a model of the comet. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The news from Rosetta - the rate of water evaporation is increasing

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Venus Express. Figure: European Space Agency

Venus Express - the end? The European Space Agency lost control of the spacecraft

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Illustration of the EDRS system for transmitting data from space. Credit: European Space Agency

First experiment: transmission of satellite images to the Earth using laser beams

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An artist's illustration of the Phi-Colombo spacecraft orbiting Mercury. Illustration: Astrium Company

One of two European-Japanese spacecraft to fly to Mercury in 2016 begins testing phase

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The Rosetta spacecraft is operated by crews at the European Space Agency's Operations Center in Darmstadt, Germany.

Rosetta continues in the full scientific phase

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The first image sent by the Philae lander after landing on the comet. The ground is rockier than the mission scientists had estimated. Photo: ESA

Philae settled on a rocky surface but did not anchor to the ground of the comet

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The manager of the landing operation of the Philae spacecraft on a comet in a conversation with the website Hadaan: One of the gas tanks intended to assist in the landing did not open, but we are sure that even without it the landing will be smooth.

Update: A signal was received from the lander. The director of the landing operation of the Philae spacecraft to the science site: one of the gas tanks intended to assist in the landing did not open, but we are sure that the landing on the comet will be smooth

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ESA Flight Director Andrea Acumazzo and ESA Mission Manager Paolo Perre at ESOC - ESA Control Center in Darmstadt, November 11, 2014. Photo ESA,/J NAI

Rosetta received the first approval to land a lander on the comet. A special report for the science website from the control center of the European Space Agency in Darmstadt

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The north pole of Mars on the summer solstice. Photo: Mars Express - European Space Agency

March Express - new findings (2)

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An artist's illustration of a Type Ia supernova. Source: European Space Agency.

Gaia discovered its first supernova 500 million light years away

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One of the Galileo satellites is installed on the Ariane launcher. Photo: Ariane/European Space Agency/CNES

Watch: A SpaceX launcher exploded in the air; Galileo's satellites went astray

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A close-up of the nucleus of comet 67P Churyumov-Gardimenko. Photo: European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, August 6, 2014

Rosetta entered orbit around the comet and thus sets a historical landmark

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The latest image of comet 67P Churyumov-Gardimenko taken by Rosetta on August 2, 2014. Photo: ESA/Rosetta/Navcam

Rosetta begins orbiting Comet 6P Churyumov-Gardimenko tomorrow (August 67)

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Artist's rendering of the ATV-5 spacecraft approaching automatic docking with the space station. Figure: European Space Agency ESA

The ATV-5 mission, the cargo spacecraft to the space station named after the Big Bang theorist Georges Lametta, has launched

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Illustration of the discovery of multiple planets. Figure: ESA

The European Space Agency will launch a more powerful telescope to discover planets - Plato

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The Rosetta spacecraft. Figure: European Space Agency

Rosetta woke up and called home

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