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Europe's Rosetta probe completes key fly-by of Earth
- 2007-11-14
PARIS AFP — Europe's comet-chasing probe Rosetta has completed a crucial fly-by of Earth to pick up speed on a 10-year mission to rendezvous with a distant comet, the European Space Agency ESA said on Wednesday. "An important milestone has just been accomplished," the Paris-based agency said after the...
Arctic ice loss: Northwest Passage now open, says space agency
- 2007-09-14
PARIS AFP — The Northwest Passage, the dreamed-of yet historically impassable maritime shortcut between Europe and Asia, has now fully opened up due to record shrinkage of Arctic sea ice, the European Space Agency ESA said on Friday. It released a mosaic of images, taken in early September by...
Europe set for billion-euro gamble with comet-chasing probe
- 2007-02-23
PARIS AFP — A European comet-chasing spacecraft is set for a nail-biting close encounter this weekend with Mars. The billion-euro (1.3-billion-dollar) probe Rosetta will come within 250 kilometers (156 miles) of the Red Planet's surface, using Martian gravity to correct its course in one of the longest and costliest...
Saturn's moon Titan looks like a primitive Earth
- 2005-11-30
PARIS AFP — A historic mission to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has revealed a chemical hell of great complexity which somewhat resembles the forces that helped sculpt the infant Earth, scientists said. In its parachute-braked descent to Titan's surface on January 14, the European Space Agency ESA probe Huygens...
European probe sniffs out a site for lunar outpost
- 2005-09-06
CAMBRIDGE, England AFP — An experimental European probe has spotted a tiny area on the Moon that could be a promising site to set up a future manned outpost, a mission scientist revealed. Measuring "just a few square kilometers miles across" and located near the Moon's North Pole, the...
Heads up, it's Europe's comet-chaser
- 2005-03-03
PARIS AFP — Weather permitting, European astronomers should get a good view of Rosetta, a spacecraft designed to rendezvous with a comet in deep space in one of the most ambitious ventures in space exploration. The billion-euro (1.3-billion-dollar) craft, launched just over a year ago, will be passing overhead...
Europe's Moon probe is safely slotted in lunar orbit
- 2004-11-16
PARIS, AFP — Europe's first mission to the Moon, the unmanned probe SMART-1, has been safely placed in orbit around the Moon, the European Space Agency ESA announced. The probe was captured by the Moon's gravity on Monday, ESA's director of science, David Southwood, said in a teleconference from...
Cassini spacecraft set to kiss Titan, Saturn's moon
- 2004-10-26
PARIS AFP — The US-European spacecraft Cassini-Huygens was to make a historic flyby of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, passing by so low as to almost touch the fringes of its atmosphere, the European Space Agency ESA said. At the closest point in the encounter, at 1644 GMT, the craft...
Last hours tick by for launch of Europe's comet-chasing probe, Rosetta
- 2004-02-25
KOUROU, French Guiana AFP ? Tense mission controllers at Europe's space base here were running through their final checklists ahead of the pre-dawn launch of a decade-long, unmanned mission to explore a comet. The Ariane 5 rocket was scheduled to blast off at 0736 GMT, although the crucial final...
Comet-chasing probe primed for launch
- 2004-02-24
KOUROU, French Guiana AFP ? A mission to land on a comet and test theories that these wanderers of the Solar System seeded Earth with the stuff for life was on course for its blastoff here Thursday. Ten years in the making, with a 10-year trip in front of...
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| David Guiraud | Vice President |
| Claude Perret | Director, HR |
| Denis Hiault | Director, Info |
| Jean-Pierre Vignolle | Director General |
| Jocelyne Bulke | Assistant Director |
| Michel Tourmen | Director, Finance |
| Yves de Saint Jacob | Director, Multimedia Business Development & Communications |
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| Michael Mainville | Correspondent |
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| Pierre Louette | Chairman & CEO |
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| Agence France-Presse | Chairman & CEO | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Executive Vice President | Current |
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| Agence France-Presse | Vice President | Current |
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| Agence France-Presse | Director, HR | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Director, HR | Former |
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| Agence France-Presse | Director, Info | Current |
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| Agence France-Presse | Director General | Current |
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| Agence France-Presse | Assistant Director | Current |
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| Agence France-Presse | Director, Finance | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Director, Finance | Former |
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| Agence France-Presse | Director, Multimedia Business Development & Communications | Current |
Luke Hunt has worked as a journalist for 20 years, primarily with Agence France-Presse, and is a routine contributor to World Politics Review. In addition to covering the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has extensive experience in Asia and the Middle East. He served as AFP bureau chief in Phnom Penh and Kabul. Currently based in Hong Kong, Hunt's work has appeared in many international newspapers and on international networks including CNN, the BBC and ABC in his native Australia. He has an academic background in military studies and economics.
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| Agence France-Presse | Correspondent | Current |
| Global Radio News Ltd. | Current | |
| San Francisco Chronicle | Moscow-Based Freelance Correspondent | Former |
| The Gazette | Reporter | Former |
| The Prague Post | Reporter | Former |
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| Dan Jung | Current |
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| International Center for Journalists | Master | Current |
| Agence France-Presse | Editor | Current |
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