European excellence - from Hubble to the James Webb Space Telescope

Highlights of ESA initiatives to reduce the cost of operating spacecraft, making ground infrastructure more efficient while achieving expanded scientific goals.

If natural Schumann resonances on Titan are confirmed, it would be the first such finding outside our own planet.

In analysing and modelling Huygen's precise descent trajectory, Europe has established an important new scientific capability.

Thanks to Cassini-Huygens, scientists continue to explore Titan, a frozen world of methane rain and hydrocarbon lakes.

At the 2007 Envisat Symposium in Montreux, Switzerland, more than 900 scientists are gathering to present findings on the state of our world's land, oceans, ice and atmosphere using data from ESA Earth observation (EO) satellites.

Europe still has many airfields that are not equipped for precision approaches. Thanks to the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), it will soon be possible to offer accurate vertical guidance for approaches to any runway.

ESA co-sponsors the IAASS conference on environmental, human and technical space safety, including related legal and regulatory issues.

ESA is a key partner in Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative and space activities are already delivering results.

A summary of the STS-116 mission with ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang. Starting with the lift-off of Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) on 9 December 2006, through to the landing in Florida on 22 December 2006.