The European Space Agency must be one of the best kept secrets in the UK! Countries of Europe have been co-operating on space science for 50 years and have achieved some spectacular successes. They have also achieved a number of modest missions that we rely on for communication, weather and environmental monitoring. We are major contributors to the International Space Station. Europe has its own Space Port, at Kourou in South America from where European and Russian rockets regularly leave to deploy satellites, planetary missions and to re-supply the Space Station. In his talk, our very own Geoff Saunders will concentrate on some of Europe’s space missions, past, present and future with video and animation to illustrate our achievements.
