ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed in the…
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A dreamy European laboratory Columbus floating in white
Long exposure photo of ESA's space laboratory Columbus - part of the International Space Station.
Hypervelocity impact test damage
An aluminium plate, ripped inwards by a single sand grain-sized fleck of aluminium oxide shot at…
Hypervelocity impact test damage
An aluminium plate, ripped inwards by a single sand grain-sized fleck of aluminium oxide shot at…
Galaxy NGC 6503
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows galaxy NGC 6503. The galaxy, which lies 30 000…
Sweden signs up for Sentinel data
Volker Liebig, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes (left) and Olle Norberg, Director General of the Swedish National…
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm appears as a cluster of bright yellow radar reflections in the lower section of this…
Comet on 1 June 2015 – NavCam
This single frame Rosetta navigation camera image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken on 1 June 2015…
Encapsulation begins
Sentinel-2A being encapsulated within the half-shells of the Vega rocket fairing, on 6 June 2015 at…
Sentinel-2A: Ready to launch
Sentinel-2A will soon be launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on top of a Vega…