IXV during integration at Thales Alenia Space

The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) flight model during integration at Thales Alenia Space, Torino, Italy, on…

Cygnus

Orbital Science’s commercial spacecraft Cygnus-1 left the International Space Station today, 17 February 2014, after spending…

Proba-V hard at work

In its first two months of work, the vegetation-monitoring Proba-V minisatellite has yielded a valuable harvest…

Sharp-eyed Proba-V works around the clock

More than 5000 images, 65 daily global maps and six 10-day global syntheses, plus a quick…

Earth from Space: Special edition

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition,…

Mouth of Ganges at 100-m resolution

Proba-V images the Ganges Delta, the world’s largest delta, in the area of Bangladesh and India. The…

Proba-V’s Olympic view

Proba-V images the Black Sea, including the Winter Olympics host city of Sochi (centre of image). Cloud…

Lagoa dos Patos, Brazil

Proba-V demonstrates its maximum resolution in this view of part of the Lagoa dos Patos lagoon,…

Alexander Gerst Sokol suit

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst testing the Russian Sokol spacesuit he will wear in the Soyuz spacecraft…

Where’s Gaia?

Disguised in a crowded field of stars, the tiny white dot highlighted in these two images…