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The European Space Agency probe "Mars Express" finds huge deposits of dusty ice beneath the equator of Mars, with the discovery being the largest amount of water ice ever found near the planet's equator.
2024-01-18

The Italian health ministry issues an "extreme" health risk warning for 16 cities, including Florence and Rome, as the European Space Agency reports that potential record-breaking temperatures of up to 48 C could be reached.
2023-07-15

The United Launch Alliance successfully launches the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter (SolO) satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The probe will study the Sun, and in particular its inner heliosphere.
2020-02-9

The European Space Agency awards the first contract to clean up space debris, in a plan to remove a single piece of debris from orbit in 2025.
2019-12-9

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

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 fails to contact its "Schiaparelli" lander during its descent through the atmosphere of the planet Mars.
2016-10-19

The European Space Agency's "Rosetta" lands the "Philae" probe on the comet 67P-Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
2014-11-12

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

The European Space Agency officially joins a project to build a Service Module based on their Automated Transfer Vehicle for NASA’s Orion, a spacecraft to carry astronauts into deep space. [http:--www.nasa.gov-exploration-systems-mpcv-orion_feature_011613.html (NASA)] [http:--www.esa.int-Our_Activities-Human_Spaceflight-Research-ESA_workhorse_to_power_NASA_s_Orion_spacecraft (ESA)] [http:--en.ria.ru-science-20130117-178831167-ESA_Joins_NASAs_Orion_Spacecraft_Project.html (RIA Novosti)]date=August 2019
2013-01-17