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Jean-Jacques Dordain

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Name: Jean-Jacques Dordain

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

European Space Agency

ESA confirmes astronaut Timothy Peake to fly to Int'l Space Station in 2015

PARIS, May 20 (Xinhua ) -- The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Monday that astronaut Timothy Peake has been proposed to fly to the International Space Station for a six-month mission in 2015. "Today I am very happy to announce the assignment of ... [Published Individual.com - May 20 2013]

Entities: Timothy Peake, European Space Agency, Cosmonaut

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Tim Peake to ISS

ESA’s Director General, Jean-Jacques Dordain, announced today that the ISS Multilateral Crew Operations Panel has decided on Friday, 17 May to accept his proposal to fly astronaut Timothy Peake to the International Space Station in 2015.“When we recruited ... [Published European Space Agency - May 20 2013]

Entities: Cosmonaut, European Space Agency, Tim Peake, Timothy Peake

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

AgustaWestland

Former AgustaWestland pilot Tim Peake expected to be Britain's next astonaught

Former AgustaWestland helicopter pilot Major Tim Peake is expected to be announced as Britain's first astronaut in 20 years.The UK Space Agency is to announce that Britain is sending an astronaut into space.The identity of the first official British astronaut ... [Published This is Somerset - May 20 2013]

Entities: Tim Peake, AgustaWestland, United Kingdom, Cosmonaut, Helen Sharman

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 3 reports

Prince Andrew

Research into space is really taking off

Buy this photo » Tim Vallings, left, and Philip Briscoe are the directors of Rezatec, which analyses earth data from satellitesTHERE was a double lift-off into space in Oxfordshire last night.But there were no rockets soaring into the skies above Har ... [Published Oxford Mail - May 15 2013]

Entities: European Space Agency, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Prince Andrew, David Willetts

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

David Willetts

Oxfordshire: European Space Agency unveils first UK facility

On May 14, David Willetts, UK minister for universities and science, and Jean-Jacques Dordain, director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), will unveil the new name and look of ESA’s first-ever UK facility. Immediately following this unveiling, ... [Published Business Magazine - May 10 2013]

Entities: European Space Agency, United Kingdom, David Willetts, Jean-Jacques Dordain

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

ESAâs Vega Rocket Launches Three Satellites to Space

ESA’s Vega launcher on the launchpad at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Credit: ESA.The second flight of ESA’s newest launch vehicle has successfully sent three different satellites to space. Launching at 02:06 GMT on 7 May from Europe’s ... [Published Universe Today - May 07 2013]

Entities: European Space Agency, Kourou (French Guiana), Nancy Atkinson, French Guiana

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

European rocket lifts off from French Guiana

AThe launcher was originally due to head skywards on Saturday morning, but was delayed because of bad weather. ?It?s rather specialised in science, whether it?s the sciences of the earth or the sciences of the universe. This is a launcher that is needed ... [Published EuroNews - May 07 2013]

Entities: French Guiana, European Space Agency, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Land cover

First reported Apr 26 2013 - Updated Apr 26 2013 - 1 reports

From space: incubation programme creates a thousand jobs

Start-up company demoThe creation of a thousand new high-tech jobs over the last nine years was celebrated at the Agency’s business incubator in southern Germany on Wednesday. The centre and its start-ups are important contributors to the regional economy ... [Published European Space Agency - Apr 26 2013]

Entities: European Space Agency, Société Bic SA, Jean-Jacques Dordain

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

NASA’s Asteroid Plan Draws Cautious Interest from Global Space Agency Chiefs

Artist concept of the asteroid-capture spacecraft NASA proposes to launch in 2017 to relocate an asteroid to lunar orbit. Credit: NASACOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Leaders of three of the world’s largest space agencies gave NASA’s plan to capture an asteroid ... [Published Space News - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Planetoid, NASA, Jean-Jacques Dordain, European Space Agency, Cosmonaut

First reported Mar 21 2013 - Updated Mar 21 2013 - 1 reports

Planck telescope maps light of the big bang scattered across the universe

Most detailed ever chart of cosmic microwave background confirms remarkable accuracy of current cosmological modelsThe most detailed map ever made of the oldest light to shine through the universe has been released by scientists at the European Space ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 21 2013]

Entities: Big Bang, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, European Space Agency

First reported Mar 17 2013 - Updated Mar 17 2013 - 1 reports

ExoMars agreement signed by ESA and Russia

Ending more than a year of negotiations and formalities, top space officials from Russia and Europe signed an agreement Thursday to partner on a pair of robotic probes to Mars set to launch in 2016 and 2018. Artist's concept of the Mars Trace Gas Orbiter ... [Published Spaceflight Now - Mar 17 2013]

Entities: EXOMARS, European Space Agency, Jean-Jacques Dordain

First reported Jan 26 2013 - Updated Jan 26 2013 - 1 reports

2013 to be bumper year for space science

PARIS, Jan 26 – European probes this year will return a treasure trove of data from explorations into the Big Bang, water on Mars and climate change, said European Space Agency (ESA) chief Jean-Jacques Dordain. “2013 will yield an extraordinary harvest” ... [Published The Malaysian Insider - Jan 26 2013]

Entities: Jean-Jacques Dordain, European Space Agency, Big Bang

Quotes

...(ESA) announced Monday that astronaut Timothy Peake has been proposed to fly to the International Space Station for a six-month mission in 2015. "today i am very happy to announce the assignment of timothy peake for a mission to the international space station" said Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA's Director General

ESA confirmes astronaut Timothy Peake to fly to Int'l Space Station in 2015 [Published Individual.com - May 20 2013]

"among the membermember states, special mention goes to italy which has led the vega programme, belgium which has led the proba projects at esa, and france which has led the development and maintenance of the european spaceport here in kourou. we are also proud to have made possible the launch of the first satellite from estonia" said Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of ESA

ESA's Vega launcher scores new success with Proba-V [Published Space Daily - May 07 2013]

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Tim Peake to ISS [Published European Space Agency - May 20 2013]
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ESA’S Vega launcher scores new success with Pro... [Published European Space Agency - May 16 2013]
Research into space is really taking off [Published Oxford Mail - May 15 2013]
European Space Agency opens its doors in UK [Published UK Space Agency - May 14 2013]
Centres to drive UK space activity [Published BBC - May 14 2013]
European Space Agency opens its doors in the UK [Published SpaceRef - May 14 2013]
Oxfordshire: European Space Agency unveils firs... [Published Business Magazine - May 10 2013]
ESA Vega Rocket Launch Successful, Three Payloa... [Published Red Orbit - May 07 2013]
ESAâs Vega Rocket Launches Three Satellites to ... [Published Universe Today - May 07 2013]
ESA's Vega launcher scores new success with Pro... [Published Space Daily - May 07 2013]
European rocket lifts off from French Guiana [Published EuroNews - May 07 2013]
From space: incubation programme creates a thou... [Published European Space Agency - Apr 26 2013]
NASA’s Asteroid Plan Draws Cautious Interest fr... [Published Space News - Apr 16 2013]
Universe as an infant: wide, lumpy \| March 22, ... [Published Bend Bulletin - Mar 23 2013]
Universe as an infant: wide, lumpy [Published Bend Bulletin - Mar 22 2013]
Planck reveals an almost perfect universe [Published EarthSky - Mar 21 2013]
Planck telescope maps light of the big bang sca... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Mar 21 2013]
Planck probe's cosmic 'baby picture' revises un... [Published Cosmic Log - Mar 21 2013]
European Planck probe produces sharpest 'baby p... [Published Cosmic Log - Mar 21 2013]
ExoMars agreement signed by ESA and Russia [Published Spaceflight Now - Mar 17 2013]
Call for Media: First cosmology results from ES... [Published SpaceRef - Mar 12 2013]
Conference on EU Space Policy 2013 [Published SpaceRef - Jan 29 2013]
2013 to be bumper year for space science [Published The Malaysian Insider - Jan 26 2013]
ESA activities in 2013 of interest to media [Published SpaceRef - Jan 02 2013]

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Planck reveals an almost perfect universe [Published EarthSky - Mar 21 2013] The image is based on the initial 15.5 months of data from Planck and is the mission’s first all-sky picture of the oldest light in our Universe, imprinted on the sky when it was just 380 000 years old. At that time, the young Universe was filled with ...
Planck probe's cosmic 'baby picture' revises un... [Published Cosmic Log - Mar 21 2013] ESA The Planck cosmology probe has produced the most detailed all-sky map to date showing the cosmic background radiation, also known as the afterglow of the big bang. /div>By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Follow @b0yle !function(d,s,id){var ...
European Planck probe produces sharpest 'baby p... [Published Cosmic Log - Mar 21 2013] ESA The Planck cosmology probe has produced the most detailed all-sky map to date showing the cosmic background radiation, also known as the afterglow of the big bang. /div>By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News Follow @b0yle !function(d,s,id){var ...