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The European Space Agency successfully launches the Euclid space telescope to study dark matter and dark energy at the second Lagrange point, 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
2023-07-1

The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration among NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, successfully enters orbit at its target destination, located near the Sun–Earth L 2 Lagrange point about 1.5 e6km from Earth.
2022-01-24

One of the largest X-ray surveys using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory publishes their initial findings mapping the growth of 12,000 supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies and galaxy clusters.
2021-06-8

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 (ESA) unveils two titanium plaques etched with artwork, which will be part of the outside of the CHEOPS exoplanet-characterization satellite during its orbit around Earth.
2018-08-28

The European Space Agency's "Rosetta" space probe ends its 12-year mission studying comet 67P-Churyumov–Gerasimenko in a "collision maneuver" into the comet's surface.
2016-09-30

The joint European Space Agency and Russian Federal Space Agency ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2016-03-14

The Soyuz TMA-19M, consisting of Expedition 46 crew members Yuri Malenchenko (RSA), Timothy Kopra (NASA) and Tim Peake (ESA), launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the International Space Station (ISS) with Peake becoming the first Briton to represent the European Space Agency at the ISS.
2015-12-15

The first launch of a new ESA carrier rocket Vega takes place from the Guiana Space Centre.
2012-02-13

At a two-day council meeting of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Paris, Europe comes to an agreement to extend its operations at the International Space Station (ISS) until 2020.
2011-03-17