HSF - International Space Station. Orbiter - Home. CryoSat - Watch CryoSat-2 launch live. ESA Bulletin 133 (February 2008) ESA Bulletin 133 (February 2008) 13 March 2008 This issue of ESA’s flagship magazine, the Bulletin, carries a range of articles: from GOCE, ESA's sleek 'Ferrari' of gravity-field satellites, to the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The launch of GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Explorer) is a cornerstone for ESA's Earth Observation programme. It will be the first satellite of the Earth Explorer family to be placed in orbit, and its mission is to explore one of the most intriguing features of our planet. Three articles in this special issue are devoted to GOCE, covering the mission, its design and how its data are handled.
Due to be launched in 2013, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to have as profound and far-reaching impact as its famous predecessor, Hubble. Other articles include: ESA’s plans for a European space surveillance system - detecting objects in space - at present only USA and Russia have this capability. Encyclopedia Astronautica. Apollo Expeditions to the Moon. S Return to Flight.