GIOVE, or Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element, is the name for each satellite in a series being built for the European Space Agency (ESA) to test technology in orbit for the…

GIOVE, or Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element, is the name for each satellite in a series being built for the European Space Agency (ESA) to test technology in orbit for the…

GIOVE, or Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element, is the name for each satellite in a series being built for the European Space Agency (ESA) to test technology in orbit for the…

A mission designed to measure the Earth's gravity field, launched on march 2009. The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) is an ESA satellite that was launched on…

A space telescope observing in the far-infrared. The Herschel Space Observatory is a European Space Agency space observatory sensitive to the far infrared and submillimetre wavebands. It is the largest…

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in operation. A 2.4 meter (7.9 ft) aperture…

INTEGRAL is the first space observatory that can simultaneously observe objects in gamma rays, X-rays and visible light. The European Space Agency's INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is an operational…

Planck — a Cosmic Microwave Background explorer, after COBE & WMAP. launched in may 2009. Planck is a space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA) and designed to observe…

SMOS — the second Earth Explorer mission launched on November 2009 designed to measure Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Satellite (SMOS) is a part…

Rosetta is a robotic spacecraft of the European Space Agency on a mission to study the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Rosetta consists of two main elements: the Rosetta space probe; the Philae…