On Thursday 14 April, ESA astronaut Tim Peake connected live from space with teachers in Norway,…
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Sentinel-2 captures Nansen fracture
Before the onset of winter and shorter daylight hours, Sentinel-2A captured a spectacular series of images…
Clean Space board game
It might not look like a training exercise: space engineers sitting around a meeting table, throwing…
ExoMars first light
The first image taken by the Trace Gas Orbiter of the ESA–Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission. The…
Road to the stars
On 12 April 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth in his Vostok…
Ready to meet Soyuz
Following a month of testing and preparing for liftoff, the Sentinel-1B satellite is now fuelled and…
Sentinel-1B services: tracking sea ice
On April 22, the European Space Agency ESA will launch the Sentinel-1B satellite on top of…
Saturn’s past and present moons
Saturn’s beautiful rings form a striking feature, cutting across this image of two of the planet’s…
Grappling Cygnus
On 26 March 2016, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra used the Station’s 17 m-long robotic arm to…
Reflections
ESA astronaut Tim Peake took this picture during his six-month Principia on the International Space Station. …