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Two European spacecraft perform dramatic world-first solar eclipse maneuver
Proba-3 mission performed the historic task using two spacecraft: The Coronagraph and the Occulter. During the maneuver, the ...
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See the world's largest iceberg stranded in the South Atlantic (satellite photo)
The drifting Antarctic iceberg A-23A came to a sudden stop in late February off the coast of South Georgia Island — a British ...
Giant 'space umbrella' satellite will 'weigh' Earth's forests
The European Space Agency's Biomass satellite will orbit Earth to assess how the world's rainforests are protecting the ...
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European space agency launches new satellite to count carbon in trees
The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched a first-of-a-kind satellite on Tuesday that will count the carbon in Earth’s rainforests. Scientists hope to better understand the importance of ...
Satellite launches on mission to "weigh" the world's 1.5 trillion trees
The satellite, named Biomass, launched with a rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, New Guinea, and separated from the ...
Europe space agency studying NASA budget cuts, mulls alternatives
The European Space Agency said on Monday it was studying the impact of U.S. budget proposals that include cuts to NASA moon ...
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Earth's orbit may be in trouble. Why space debris is to blame.
You might think space as a vast emptiness. But according to the European Space Agency, it's getting incredibly ... according to Our World in Data. The United States, Russia and China are ...
Satellite launches on mission to ‘weigh’ the world’s forests
Scientists say the radar will paint the first detailed global map of forests’ biomass, which is crucial for sucking up carbon ...