The ESSC Celebrates 50 Years of Success April 18th, 2024 The European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) commemorated its 50th anniversary with a series of events in Strasbourg, marking five decades of outstanding contributions to space sciences. Highlights of the Celebration: Evening Planetarium Show: A captivating journey through the European space race, curated by the Armagh […]
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ESSC AT SPACE SUMMIT 2023 17 November, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kXMenBGiSg&t=4s As the Chair of the European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC), Professor Chris Rapley took a commanding stance at the European Space Agency (ESA) Space Summit 2023. Addressing The Council of Ministers, he emphasised the pivotal role of space in addressing climate change. The Council is ESA’s
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Revolution Space: Europe’s Mission for Space Exploration ESSC Chair Chris Rapley contributes to report as part of the European Space Agency Director General’s High Level Advisory Group on Human and Robotic Exploration for Europe (HLAG). April 24, 2023 On 23rd March 2023, the European Space Agency Director General’s High Level Advisory Group on Human and
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The ESA Science Programme Committee has confirmed on March 7th, the continued operations of Cluster, Gaia, INTEGRAL, Mars Express and XMM-Newton as well as continued contributions to the extended operations of CHEOPS, Hinode, Hubble, IRIS, and SOHO. This was possible thanks to thanks to some significant programmatic risks (related to JUICE and Euclid) having recently
The European Space Agency has just announced the formation of the DG’s High Level Advisory Group on Human and Robotic Space Exploration for Europe.
We congratulate ESSC Chair, Chris Rapley, for being appointed as a member.
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We are delighted to announce that Anny Cazenave, ESSC Earth Sciences Panel Chair & Deputy director of the Laboratoire d’Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale (LEGOS) has received the 2022 Women in Aerospace Europe award.
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We are thrilled to announce that ESSC member and University College Dublin Physics Professor, Michael Perryman, has just received the 2022 Shaw Prize in Astronomy in equal shares with Lennart Lindegren, from Lund Observatory, Sweden for their lifetime contributions to space astrometry, and in particular for their role in the conception and design of the European Space Agency’s Hipparcos and Gaia missions.
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The latest IPCC report, which came out Monday, April 4th, 2022, warns that policies in place to reduce emissions as of December 2020 would lead the planet to 3.2 degrees Celsius of warming, more than double the 1.5 degrees limit that is essential for avoiding the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
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ESSC Chair and University College London Climate Science Professor, Chris Rapley created 2071 in 2015 along with writer Duncan Macmillan and director Katie Mitchell. This piece of theatre is a 65 minute spellbinding performance, where science is centre stage.
The European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) condemns the attack on Ukraine, abhors the violence taking place, deplores the human casualties and sacrifices, and implores those in a position to do so to restore peace at the earliest opportunity.
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