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Galileo's fifth satellite – recently salvaged from the wrong orbit to begin navigation testing – has been combined with three predecessors to provide its very first position fix.

Last month, experts from ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme and Europe’s national disaster response organisations met for a two-day exercise on what to do if an asteroid is ever found to be heading Earth.

Today, the Council of the European Space Agency, where Romania is represented by the Romanian Space Agency through President Marius-Ioan Piso, announced the appointment of Johann-Dietrich Woerner as the next Director General of ESA, for a period of four years starting on 1 July 2015.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has published an image which highlights millimetre movements in the structures and roads around the Palace of Parliament.

The partner agencies supporting the International Space Station will hold together with UNESCO a press conference on 18 December to preview the upcoming year-long expedition and to discuss the future of the ISS. The briefing will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, starting 17:00, Romania time.