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Latest ESA Bulletin

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Latest ESA Bulletin (No. 132, November 2007) now online

Contents

Node-2 in Place!
Europes First Module Permanently Attached to the ISS
Philippe Deloo Revealing the Red Planet Mars Express Provides an Unprecedented View Agustin Chicarro, Angelo Pio Rossi & Olivier Witasse

Pinpointing the Milky Way
The Formidable Challenge of Processing Gaias Data
Jane Douglas et al.

The ESA Optical Ground Station
Ten Years Since First Light
Zoran Sodnik, Bernhard Furch & Hanspeter Lutz

Globcolour
A Precursor to the GMES Marine Core Service Ocean Colour Thematic Assembly Centre
Simon Pinnock, Odile Fanton dAndon & Samantha Lavender

Medspiration
A Precursor to the GMES Marine Core Service Sea-Surface Thematic
Olivier Arino et al.

New Opportunities for ESAs Redu Ground Station
Ralph Bierett & Daniele Galardini

Soyuz at the European Spaceport
Harald Arend et al.

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Global environmental change is the most fundamental challenge facing humanity. How are satellites providing the information needed for understanding the effect of increasing human activity? The two lead articles in the latest issue of ESA's magazine tackle the subject.
Later this year, Europe will become a major shareholder in the International Space Station when its Columbus laboratory is attached to begin at least 10 years of experiments. 'Building the Future' looks at how previous astronaut missions are providing the experience for this major step.

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