First contact

Ariane 5 flight VA229 lifted off yesterday morning at 05:20 GMT (02:20 local time, 06:20 CET)…

Sentinel-1B arrives in Cayenne

Sentinel-1B arrived in French Guiana on 8 March 2016. Over the next weeks the satellite will…

ESRIN OPEN DAYS 7 – 11 MARCH: “Inspiring the future”

ESRIN’s Open Days 2016 gave 2000 young students and their teachers a rare opportunity to learn…

Proba-2 view of 8-9 March partial solar eclipse

On 8-9 March 2016, a solar eclipse took place over the Pacific Ocean. This eclipse was…

Proba-2’s partial eclipse

ESA's Sun-watching Proba-2 minisatellite watched the Pacific's partial solar eclipse from up in Earth orbit

Tenerife imaged by Proba-V

A false-colour image of the Atlantic island of Tenerife, as seen by ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite. The…

ExoMars – building on past missions to Mars

The ExoMars 2016 spacecraft will build on past missions to Mars. From the pioneering Viking missions…

Pacific solar eclipse seen from Proba-2

On 8-9 March 2016, a solar eclipse took place over the Pacific Ocean. This eclipse was…

Europe viewed wide

This is one of the first images received from Sentinel-3A’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer…

ExoMars 2016: Fairing encapsulation

Video from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, showing the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft composite being encased inside…