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17.12.2020 / 15:50

European Space Agency appoints Austrian scientist new chief

BERLIN – The European Space Agency said Thursday that Josef Aschbacher, an Austrian scientist who leads its Earth observation program, has been appointed as the organization's next head.The agency's 22 member states elected Aschbacher to be ESA's director general succeeding Jan Woerner, whose term ends on June 30.Aschbacher currently oversees the ESA’s center for Earth Observation, near Rome, and has been deeply involved in some of the agency's most high-profile missions including the Copernicus fleet of satellites collecting environmental data about the planet from space.The European Space Agency has lately begun discussing involvement in crewed missions beyond Earth's orbit, such as a possible return-to-the-Moon mission with NASA.

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Europe, US 'climate guardian' satellite to monitor oceans

BERLIN – A satellite jointly developed by Europe and the United States being launched this weekend will greatly help scientists keep track of the rise in global sea levels, one of the most daunting effects of climate change, a senior official at the European Space Agency said Friday.The new satellite, called Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, contains cutting-edge instruments able to capture sea level height with unprecedented accuracy, adding to space-based measurements going back almost 30 years.“This is an extremely important parameter for climate monitoring,” said Josef Aschbacher, the agency's director of Earth observation.Billions of people living in coastal areas around the planet are at risk in the coming decades as melting polar ice and

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Link stimulus package to climate change, says expert

Economic stimulus packages for hibernating economies hit by the Covid-19 pandemic need to be linked to climate change and biodiversity measures, a leading scientist has claimed.

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Air pollution drops rapidly amid industrial inactivity in Europe

Air pollution from nitrogen dioxide has fallen by an estimated 40% in three European cities, according to new satellite data released by the European Space Agency, coinciding with a widespread lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

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