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Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) to search for life in the Jovian system, with an expected arrival date of 2031.
2023-04-14

Arianespace successfully launches the European Space Agency's CHEOPS space telescope from Guiana Space Centre. The European observatory will search for new exoplanets and will be able to study an exoplanet's composition and internal structure. The launch also included OPS-SAT, an ESA CubeSat.
2019-12-18

The European Space Agency successfully launches the German Aerospace Center-operated EDRS-C laser communication satellite on an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.
2019-08-6

Arianespace launches the European Space Agency–Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency probe "BepiColombo" from Guiana Space Centre as it begins a 7-year journey to Mercury. It is the final mission of the Horizon 2000+ program.
2018-10-19

The European Space Agency's ADM-Aeolus global wind mapping satellite is successfully launched via a Vega rocket from Guiana Space Centre.
2018-08-22

The European Space Agency releases the largest-ever 3D map of stars in our galaxy from the Gaia spacecraft.
2018-04-25

The European Space Agency-Roscosmos operated Schiaparelli EDM lander successfully separates from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, beginning a three-day descent to the surface of Mars.
2016-10-16

The European Space Agency's robotic lander "Philae" is discovered wedged in a crack between some rocks in the shadow of a cliff on 67P-Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta space probe after being lost since 2014.
2016-09-5

Three astronauts return from a mission to the International Space Station, Briton Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, Timothy Kopra of NASA and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko.
2016-06-18

The European Space Agency releases the Planck space observatory's first all-sky map of the cosmic microwave background, the most accurate ever created. It determines that the Universe is older than expected, at 13.82 billion years old.
2013-03-21