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ESA

# esa - Thursday 4 April, 2013

New solar storm detection centre for Europe

The centre in Brussels is part of wider system that tracks objects in space that threaten to collide with the Earth.

# esa - Thursday 13 December, 2012

From Business ETC Sunscreen

Irish company wins €500k deal to make sunscreen for satellites

Enbio signed the contract with the European Space Agency.

# esa - Thursday 4 October, 2012

From Business ETC European Space Agency

Irish company Techworks Marine lands major space contract

The firm will now lead a European Space Agency research project.

# esa - Wednesday 26 September, 2012

# esa - Saturday 4 August, 2012

Ireland’s space programme: what Irish tech developments are heading out of this world?

From exercising in space to 3D animations, here’s how Ireland is contributing to global research for future space missions.

# esa - Thursday 3 May, 2012

European Space Agency sets sights on Jupiter

New mission will focus on the gas giant’s three large icy moons.

# esa - Tuesday 7 February, 2012

Scientists find evidence of ancient ocean on Mars

A two-year investigation by a European Space Agency probe has found strong new evidence to show there was once an ocean on the red planet.

# esa - Friday 16 December, 2011

Russian spacecraft set to crash back to Earth next month

The unmanned Phobos-Ground craft, which was set to land on one of Mars’s moons, will return sometime in January.

# esa - Wednesday 23 November, 2011

Space This post contains videos

Contact finally made with stranded Russian spacecraft

The Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars launched on 8 November, but the engine boosts to push it out of Earth’s orbit and on towards the Martian moon Phobos failed.

# esa - Friday 18 November, 2011

Ireland’s role in keeping astronauts healthy in space

Two European Space Agency contracts were won by two Irish men in Dublin universities, to help them undertake research on ‘accelerated ageing’ and lack of exercise in space.

# esa - Friday 4 November, 2011

From The Daily Edge Mars

Video, photos: Simulated mission to Mars ends after 520 days of isolation

A group of six scientists and engineers emerged from their capsule earlier today.

# esa - Wednesday 5 October, 2011

From The Daily Edge Send It At Night

Scientists plan ambitious launch of spacecraft bound for the Sun

The European Space Agency plans to launch a solar orbiter, which will travel closer to the Sun than anything has gone before.