European nations to fund military-grade surveillance network in space

The agency’s proposed European Resilience from Space (ERS) project secured almost all the funding it had sought. It aims to create a military-grade “system of systems” pooling national space assets to ...

3I/ATLAS: JUICE spacecraft's NavCam spots two tails on interstellar visitor, reveals European Space Agency; scientists surprised by signs of activity

JUICE spacecraft captured a striking image of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS. The image revealed hints of two tails. Scientists are awaiting full data from JUICE’s five instruments. The comet is set to ...

Europe Bets Big on $25 Billion Space Budget Amid Defense Hike

Europe’s equivalent of NASA is seeking €22 billion ($25.5 billion) from its member states for the next three years, a 36% ...

Irish space companies won €24m in European Space Agency contracts in 2024

Irish companies signed European Space Agency (ESA) contracts with a total value of €24 million last year, a record figure and more than double the 2023 total, the Government has said. On Wednesday, ...

European Space Agency boosts budget to catch up in space race

The European Space Agency said Thursday it would increase its budget for the next three years to almost 22.1 billion euros ($25.6 billion). Ahead of two-day agency conference starting Thursday in the ...
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Europe secures record space budget to boost independence

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it had secured a record budget of 22.1 billion euros to fund its programmes for ...

European nations agree 30% boost in three-year space budget

European nations agreed on Thursday to increase spending on space over the next three years by about 30% to 22.1 billion ...
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European Space Agency to develop new food made out of air and astronauts’ urine

The European Space Agency has launched a new program that could have astronauts survive on a protein powder made from “thin air” and urine during long missions, the agency said in a press release. The ...
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Orbex trails other European Launcher Challenge companies as U.K. delays funding decision

Orbex received far less funding than the other four ESA European Launcher Challenge companies after the U.K. deferred a ...
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European Space Agency's official store hacked to steal payment cards

European Space Agency's official web shop was hacked as it started to load a piece of JavaScript code that generates a fake Stripe payment page at checkout. With a budget over 10 billion euros, the ...

OTD In Space - December 2: NASA Launches SOHO Sun-Watching Satellite

On Dec. 2, 1995, NASA launched the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, also known as SOHO. This sun-monitoring satellite is a ...
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'We've known it's been coming for a while': Inside the decision to eliminate the UK Space Agency

The U.K. government's decision to eliminate the nation's space agency didn't come as a surprise to insiders. The U.K. government's announcement to absorb the nation's 15-year-old space agency into a ...