Planck first light survey – Image

Credits: ESA, LFI & HFI Consortia. Background optical image: Axel Mellinger

Cupola mated to the Tranquility node in NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility – Image

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2009

SMOS – Science

A better knowledge of our planet behaviour; this is the objective of SMOS that will be…

Zoom out of Stephan’s Quintet – Video

Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

STS-128 crew line up behind Discovery – Image

Credits: NASA

Space Shuttle Discovery slows to a stop after landing at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the STS-128 mission – Image

Credits: NASA

Plentiful plankton – Image

Credits: ESA, 2009

ESA astronauts Frank De Winne and Christer Fuglesang participate in an inflight call with Swedish TV – Video

Credits: NASA TV

The International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery – Image

Credits: ESA/NASA

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission – Video

Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab/Artbeats Digital Film Library/BBC