Today, 15 March 2016, the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), as the leading organisation of the Research, Development and Innovation Programme for Space Technology and Advanced Research – STAR, approved by Law no. 262/2011 for the ratification of the Agreement between Romania and the European Space Agency (ESA) and Decision of the President of A.N.C.S. no.9031/23.02.2012, launches the C3-2016 competition for projects (Decision of the President of A.N.C.S.I. no.9076/15.03.2016 A.N.C.S.I. no.9076/15.03.2016).
A spectacular new image of the Milky Way has been released to mark the completion of the APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL).
Scientists affiliated with institutes located in the ESA Member States are invited to participate in the NASA WFIRST Formulation Science Working Group (FSWG).
The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched an announcement of opportunity that solicits from the broad scientific community proposals for the competitive selection of new "Science Ideas", to be investigated in terms of feasibility and needed technology developments.
The third ESA-developed satellite carrying four Earth-observing instruments was launched on 16 February, ready to provide a ‘bigger picture’ for Europe’s Copernicus environment programme.