European Space Agency

The probe Philae has been given the green light to attempt the first landing on a comet on Nov. 12, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
      
"We've got the final go" for the operation, an ESA spokeswoman said at mission control in Darmstadt, Germany.
      

A three-man multinational crew of astronauts returned to Earth Monday aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, after spending 165 days working together at the International Space Station, NASA said.
     

An unmanned U.S. supply rocket exploded shortly after lifting off from a commercial launch pad in Virginia, the first disaster since NASA turned to private operators to run cargo to the International Space Station.
   

An unmanned Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff from a commercial launch pad on Virginia's eastern seaboard on Oct. 28, marking the first accident since NASA turned to private operators to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.

Romania is a leader in an ambitious project of building an instrument for the detection and monitoring of tiny airborne particles, called lidar, informs a release of the Romanian Space Agency sent to AGERPRES on Wednesday.

European spacecraft Rosetta became the first ever to catch up with a comet on Aug. 6, a landmark stage in a decade-long space mission that scientists hope will help unlock some of the secrets of the solar system.

After a decade-long quest spanning six billion kilometers, a European probe will come face to face Aug. 6 with a comet, one of the Solar System’s enigmatic wanderers.

The moment will mark a key phase of the most ambitious project ever undertaken by the European Space Agency (ESA), a 1.3 billion euro bid to get to know these timeless space rovers.

Eight Romanian scientists gathered in a LOW Gravity Team are currently in Kiruna, Sweden, to prepare the launch with the aid of a Rexus 16 European rocket of a revolutionary technology, a world's first created by them. It is about melting and soldering titanium and aluminium alloys in a milligravity environment for soldering in the outer space.