As with Sentinel-1A, the Sentinel-2A satellite carries a laser terminal, or ‘optical communications payload’, to transmit…
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Samantha in Cupola
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti on the International Space Station 3 February 2015 during her Futura mission.…
IXV ready for liftoff
This time-lapse video shows IXV's preparation, fairing encapsulation, transfer to the Vega mobile gantry and upper…
Galileo container
Galileo satellite in its protective air-conditioned container, about to be unloaded from its Air France Boeing 747…
Lisbon, Portugal
This image from Sentinel-1A’s radar shows the metropolitan area of Portugal’s capital, Lisbon. Flowing in from…
Earth from Space: Lisbon
Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The one…
March of the moons
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a rare occurrence as three of Jupiter’s largest…
Polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background: zoom
A visualisation of the polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, as detected by ESA’s…
Polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background
A visualisation of the polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, as detected by ESA's…
Polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background: finer detail
A visualisation of the polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB, as detected by ESA’s…