Releases (1-20) about practical arrangements on the ESA Council meeting at ministerial level in Rome from 30/01 to 31/01/1985, successful outcome of ESA Council meeting at ministerial level, MARECS-B2 handed over to Inmarsat for commercial use, ESA Earthnet programme supports CEC Hunger-relief: projects in the Sahel, ESA information retrieval service adds new features, ESA creates the G. Colombo fellowship, Columbus: a step forward, international cooperation : US loan of stand-by weather satellite, links between ESA/IRS and Morocco strenghthened, ESA at the 36th International Aerospace Exhibition: Le Bourget from 30/05 to 09/06/1985, agreement between ESA and European Broadcasting Union (EBU) on use of Olympus satellite, ESA and NASA sign space station agreement, Giotto: getting ready for its 700 million Km interplanetary voyage, nomination of new ESA directors, presentation of Spacelab-2 mission, Giotto: launch date confirmed, Eureca: industrial contract signed, EXOSAT: two years in orbit, Giotto on its way to Halley's Comet, Giotto launch, successful firing of the Giotto onboard motor.
Releases (26-39) about Spacelab: the European space laboratory passes its final verification tests with flying colours, ESA accepts 2nd Ariane launch site, European communications satellite system: ECS-39 launch date fixed, Halley's Comet coordination efforts underway among international space agencies, ESA hosts a Conference on artificial intelligence, ESA at the 36th International Astronautical Congress in Stockolm, new sleep restraint to be tried out during the D1 spacelab mission, ESA Director General to receive T. Von Karman award, ESA participation in the German Spacelab D1 mission, Meteosat F1: end of lifetime, ESA's space probe Giotto: 1st encounter rehearsals: a success, Austria and Norway full member States of ESA, restrictions lifted on ESA-IRS aerospace daily life, yet another successful mission for ESA's Spacelab, D1 payload specialists to visit ESA headquarters, Austria and Norway sign accession agreements to the Convention of ESA, ESA receives Targa d'oro per l'ecologia, signature of 3 new contracts with Arianespace.

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