The miniature Aausat satellite undergoes repeated temperature variations in a vacuum chamber, cooling the CubeSat to…
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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…
Signature ESA/EU delegation agreements
Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, and Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director General for Enterprise and Industry at…