Europe has put up another two spacecraft in its Galileo sat-nav system. The satellites were launched on a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana.
NASA's longest-running Mars mission has captured its first view of Phobos.
On Aug. 14, 2017, European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts Samantha Crisoforetti and Matthias Maurer trained with their counterparts with the China National Space Administration (CNSA) in Yantai, China. See photos of the historic joint exercise.
It's unclear how this proposal would work with existing NASA studies of a Europa lander mission that could launch as soon as 2025.
