Success of the 1,815th launch of Soyuz

The 1,815th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Monday, 24 March 2014 from…

MarsFest 2014: Linking Extremes of Earth and Space

We are excited to announce the third annual MarsFest in Death Valley National Park, on March…

When can we see the comet?

Visualisation of how comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will appear in Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow angle camera between May and…

ESRIN Open Days 18-21 March: a “global” experience

ESRIN’s Open Days 2014 gave 1400 young students and their teachers a rare opportunity to learn…

Safer seas with Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1 delivers radar imagery for numerous applications. Images acquired over the ocean are essential for generating…

Sentinel-1: seeing through clouds

As an advanced radar mission, Sentinel-1 can image the surface of Earth through cloud and rain…

Sentinel-1 constellation

The Sentinel-1 mission is designed as a constellation of two identical satellites, Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B ,…

Sentinel-1 takes the lead

Sentinel-1A is the first in the family of Copernicus satellites. Delivering timely information for numerous services,…

Galileo solar wing test deployment

Test deployment of a Galileo solar wing in Dutch Space's cleanroom. The completed wings are suspended on…

Ariane liftoff on flight VA216

On 22 March 2014, Ariane 5 flight VA216 lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana…