November 16, 2007
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Extension of ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton missions approved
Date Released: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Source: Extension of ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton missions approved 
In recognition of their superb scientific output, the mission operations of European flagship x-ray and gamma-ray observatories, XMM-Newton and Integral, have been extended until 31 December 2012.
ESA’s comet chaser, Rosetta, is on its way to its second close encounter with Earth on 13 November.
Yesterday, 18 October at 18:06 CEST, the thrusters of ESA’s comet chaser, Rosetta, were fired in a planned, 42-second trajectory correction manoeuvre designed to ‘fine tune’ the spacecraft’s approach to Earth.
ESA has been invited to participate in the exhibition ‘Planet Earth: from Space to Place’ organised by UNESCO, during its General Conference, starting this week in Paris.
With eyes that peer into the most energetic phenomena in the universe, ESA’s Integral has been setting records, discovering the unexpected and helping understanding the unknown over its first five years.
TC-1, one of the two satellites of the CNSA/ESA Double Star mission, was decommissioned on 14 October as its designed orbit lifetime came to an end.
“Persistent drizzle moving in from the coast clearing late morning” - a phrase frequently used in weather forecasts across the world can now be applied to the weather on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, according to a paper published in Science (11th October 2007).
There is a gamma-ray lighthouse shining from the edge of our universe.
M87, the central galaxy of the Virgo cluster in a distance of only 50 million light years, was observed by Yuri Kovalev from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronony (MPIfR) in Bonn and his colleagues with the VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) at 2 cm wavelength.