Aausat4

The miniature Aausat satellite undergoes repeated temperature variations in a vacuum chamber, cooling the CubeSat to…

Aausat4

The miniature Aausat satellite undergoes repeated temperature variations in a vacuum chamber, cooling the CubeSat to…

Measuring ESA’s IXV spaceplane

ESA’s Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, IXV, is tilted and turned along and around all three axes at…

#RosettaAreWeThereYet — Once upon a time…

...there was a spacecraft called Rosetta. Rosetta had been travelling in space for 10 years, towards a…

ESA astronaut Timothy Peake with UK Mission-X kids

ESA astronaut Tim Peake with UK participants of the Mission-X challenge during Futures Day at the…

Moon Eclipses Saturn

What happened to half of Saturn? Nothing other than Earth's Moon getting in the way. As…

Mexico City

This week’s satellite image was acquired over the eastern part of Mexico City. The area pictured…

Earth from Space: Texcoco

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Explore the…

Sentinel-1B launch contract signature

The contract between ESA and Arianespace to launch the Sentinel-1B satellite was signed on 17 July…

Comet on 14 July 2014 – processed view

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was imaged on 14 July 2014 by OSIRIS, Rosetta’s scientific imaging system, from a…