European Space Agency

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  • Raymonde De Laroche

    Raymonde De Laroche, the first women to gain her pilots license.

  • ESRO-4 satellite

    ESRO-4 satellite arried five experiments concentrating on Earth's ionosphere, atmosphere, radiation belts and penetration of solar particle radiation into the magnetosphere.

  • Cos-B

    this was the first ESA misiion to study gamma-ray sources

  • EXOSAT

    May 1983 until April 1986 and in that time made 1780 observations in the X-ray band of most classes of astronomical object including active galactic nuclei, stellar coronae, cataclysmic variables, white dwarfs, X-ray binaries, clusters of galaxies, and supernova remnants.

  • Ulysses Spacecraft

    Ulysses is a decommissioned robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes

  • Infrared Space Observatory

    The Infrared Space Observatory was a space telescope for infrared light designed and operated by the European Space Agency. The ISO was designed to study infrared light at wavelengths of 2.5 to 240 micrometres.

  • Jean-Francois Clevroy

    He had gone into space to repair the Hubble space telescopeafter the gyroscopes had broken.

  • Frank De Winne

    Frank flew the Odissea mission. it was a flight to support the ISS. he was a flight engineer on the updated Soyuz TMA spacecraft on launch and on a Soyuz TM for reentry.

  • Rosetta Spacecraft

    Rosetta is a robotic space probe that was launched by the European Space Agency to study acomet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

  • André Kuipers

    The mission was to exchange the Soyuz spacecraft that serves as Space Station lifeboat, to exchange the Station crew and for André to perform 21 experiments in human physiology, biology, technology and education.

  • STS-120

    Paolo was asigned to Space Shuttle Mission STS-120.

  • Chandrayaan-1

    ESA has made instruments on Chandrayaan-1 which was an idina space probe that was sent to the moon.

  • Thomas Pesquet

    Thomas was assigned to a long-durration mission on the instrumental space station. he leaves earth for 6 months as a flight engineer for expeditions 50 and 51.

  • BepiColombo

    BepiColombo is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to the planet Mercury. The mission has two satellites to be launched together, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter.

  • ESA selects planet-hunting PLATO mission

    Febuary 19th A space-based observatory to search for planets orbiting alien stars has been selected today as ESA's third medium-class science mission. It is planned for launch by 2024