Space technology on winners podium

Once again Henri Pescarolo chose advanced space technology to make his Le Mans racer lighter and…

GENESIS SCIENCE COLLECTORS

Scientists have closely examined four Genesis spacecraft collectors, vital to the mission’s top science objective, and…

ERS-2’s mission continues

Ten years and 52 289 orbits on from its launch, the Earth Observation mission of ESA’s…

ALIEN ASTEROID BELT

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted what may be the dusty spray of asteroids banging together…

Photo Contest Winners

ESA received more than 45 fascinating images from Canada, USA, Europe and Africa during last month’s…

Antarctic ice tongue

Maps of Antarctica need to be amended. The long-awaited collision between the vast B-15A iceberg and…

CryoSat validation

The northernmost part of the Baltic Sea, between Finland and Sweden, recently provided an ideal location…

Lunar Peaks of Eternal Light

ESA’s SMART-1 mission to the Moon has been monitoring the illumination of lunar poles since the…

Soyuz arrives at the ISS

ESA PR 21-2005. The Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft carrying European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori on the…

Nile Delta from Space

The fertile green territory of Egypt’s Nile Delta provides a notable contrast to the bare desert…