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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

European Space Agency

This photograph taken on April 14, 2023, shows Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket lifting off from its launchpad, at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. (Jody AMIET / AFP)
April 14, 2023, 6:30 pm
European space mission carrying Israeli tech blasts off for Jupiter’s moons
JUICE mission will seek to analyze liquid detected beneath ice of Ganymede, including instrument managed by scientists from Weizmann Institute to look for aberrations in tides
By Juliette COLLEN
A large pink, speckled galaxy resembling a wheel with a small, inner oval, with dusty blue in between on the right, with two smaller spiral galaxies about the same size to the left against a black background. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI)
August 3, 2022, 4:48 am
Webb telescope captures colorful Cartwheel Galaxy, 500 million light-years away
NASA reveals images of rare ring galaxy in the Sculptor constellation
By AFP
In this photo taken by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky and provided by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, the International Space Station is seen from the Nauka module, on August 11, 2021. (Oleg Novitsky/Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service photo via AP)
February 26, 2022, 11:22 pm
After global sanctions, Russian space chief threatens International Space Station
Experts predict astronauts aboard the ISS will not be affected by political rhetoric, as two sides are dependent on each other to remain in orbit
By Issam Ahmed
This image, provided by the European Space Agency (ESA), shows the Sun on May 30, 2020. (Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL/ via AP)
July 16, 2020, 10:29 pm
Scientists marvel as closest pics ever taken of sun show it is covered in flares
So-called ‘campfires’ are ‘literally everywhere we look,’ say awed experts, suggesting they could be mini-explosions but admitting they don’t know exactly what to make of them
By Agencies
Illustrative: The Vega 1 rocket on the launchpad in 2012. (S. Corvaja/ESA)
June 29, 2020, 6:31 am
Launch of European rocket carrying tiny Israeli space lab delayed again
Vega rocket carrying payload of 53 small satellites, including experiments from Sheba, Technion and Hebrew University, kept grounded again, and again, by bad weather
By ToI Staff and Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative: The Vega 1 rocket on the launchpad in 2012. (S. Corvaja/ESA)
June 28, 2020, 5:59 am
Launch of European rocket carrying tiny Israeli space lab delayed again
Vega rocket carrying payload of 53 small satellites, including experiments from Sheba, Technion and Hebrew University, kept grounded by bad weather
By ToI Staff and Nathan Jeffay
Illustration of space junk. (Petrovich9/iStock by Getty Images)
March 20, 2019, 6:44 am
One small step for Israel highlights one giant heap of space trash for mankind
As Beresheet nears the moon, where it will spend eternity as a 160 kg tin can, experts warn of a growing pile of man-made debris on the lunar surface and more junk in orbit
By Melanie Lidman
This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Korolev crater, an 82-kilometre-across feature found in the northern lowlands of Mars. This oblique perspective view was generated using a digital terrain model and Mars Express data (ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)
December 22, 2018, 5:45 pm
Mars orbiter sends striking photos from icy crater
Composite images from European Space Agency craft show Korolev crater, named after famous Soviet engineer
By ToI Staff
The VENµS satellite and launcher at the launch site in French Guiana on July 31, 2017. (courtesy Israel Space Agency)
January 29, 2018, 7:01 pm
Israel discusses joining European Space Agency under ‘special arrangement’
Cooperation desired, ball in Israel’s court, says agency head on sidelines of 13th Ilan Ramon International Space Conference in Tel Aviv
By Shoshanna Solomon
A satellite image of the Nile using infrared technology colors the river in red (Courtesy European Space Agency, April 2016)
April 2, 2016, 5:25 pm
Satellite image of red River Nile evokes biblical legend
Photo uses infrared technology to map heat created by vegetation surrounding the Egyptian river
By ToI Staff
A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft blasts off from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, March 14, 2016. (AFP/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV)
March 15, 2016, 2:30 pm
Israeli rocket technology will help explorer ease onto Mars
A braking system that will let the new European-Russian ExoMars craft touch down on Red Planet without exploding comes from the Rafael defense systems firm
By David Shamah
A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft blasts off from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome, March 14, 2016. (AFP/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV)
March 14, 2016, 4:01 pm
Rocket blasts off on mission seeking life on Mars
ExoMars 2016 project includes robot lander that will explore Red Planet and a ‘nose’ to test atmosphere
By Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV
The moon rises behind the star of a Christmas Tree in central Rome on December 22, 2015. (AFP/TIZIANA FABI)
January 16, 2016, 9:24 am
European space boss has ‘crazy’ Moon Village plan
Jan Woerner says a lunar base is being widely discussed as the end of the International Space Station looms large; idea raised at talks in US, Israel
By Mariëtte Le Roux
View of the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet (Photo credit: ESA)
November 12, 2014, 6:40 pm
Historic landing on ill-smelling comet may help discover how planets formed
For 25 years, scientists have dreamed of probing Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s fiery celestial body – and Tel Aviv researchers are playing an important role
By David Shamah
(L to R) Professor Isaac Ben-Israel, head of the Israel Space Agency; Minister of Science Yaakov Peri; NASA Chairman Charles F. Bolden (Photo credit: Ben Kattan)
October 2, 2014, 4:32 pm
World beats path to Israel’s door for better space tech
Satellites, communications, and more — Israeli technology for extra-terrestrial exploration is a hit at international event
By David Shamah
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