With the recent launch of the GIOVE-B satellite, Europe is today demonstrating its mastery of broadcasting time signals with unprecedented accuracy

2008 has been a fantastic year for ESA's human space missions. ESA is already looking toward destinations far beyond the ISS for future human exploration in space

Benefits from ESA's Earth observation programme include boosting scientific understanding of our environment and helping victims of natural disasters worldwide

The most Earth-like of planets in the Solar System, the most likely to have developed forms of life, and probably the first to be visited by humans - Mars continues to be a focus of planetary exploration

ESA's GOCE (Gravity Field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer) has been developed to bring about a whole new level of understanding of one of the Earth's most fundamental forces of nature – the gravity field

A commercial application of a technological achievement - broadband Internet on trains via satellite - developed with support from the European Space Agency

The advantage of using leading edge-technologies from space in other sectors, and vice versa, at the forum 'Innovation from space exploration and technology transfer' on Wednesday 23 April 2008.

Technology spin-offs from European space programmes presented at the SpaceTransfer08 event in the 'Innovations Market for Research and Development' section at the industrial trade fair Hannover Messe 2008, 21-25 April 2008.

The second Galileo satellite, GIOVE-B, is equipped with the most accurate clock ever to be flown in space

Galileo is moving ahead: On the 27th April the second Galileo satellite, GIOVE-B, will be launched from Baikonur