ESA PROJECTS
August 1st, 2001
BY JONATHAN THOMSON AND KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Space Agency is embarking of the development of a raft of new challenging projects, all of which are open to British involvement, notably a mission to Mercury - which could use the services of the University of Leicester Space Instrumentation Group.Among the missions that ESA is to move ahead with this year is the launch of the SMART-1 moon orbiter in 2002, the 2003 Mars Express orbiter - which will carry a small lander - and the Rosetta mission, which will launch in 2003, hopefully as the first spacecraft to send ...
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