Ahead of the launch of Vega flight VV02, the second stage Zefiro 23 engine is installed…
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Earth from Space: New Caledonia
Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the…
Monitoring urban areas
Urban areas are a rapidly changing environment and concentration of the population is ever increasing in…
Rapidly rotating black hole accreting matter
ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR have detected a rapidly rotating supermassive black hole in the heart…
BepiColombo MPO being placed in Phenix thermal vacuum test facility
The Mercury Planetary Orbiter, part of ESA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury, placed in the Phenix thermal…
How to cook a spacecraft
The faint aroma of hot metal filled the surrounding cleanroom as the hatch to ESA’s newest…
Chris Hadfield with Biolab
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield conducting routine maintenance on Biolab in Europe’s Columbus laboratory on…
Lidia Icardi: Electrical power systems engineer
Academic background: Lidia Icardi works on the Solar Orbiter project and talks about her tasks as…
Anne Pacros: Payload system engineer
Academic background series: Anne Pacros is a payload system engineer on the Solar Orbiter mission and…
Age-Raymond Riise: Ground Station Engineer
Academic background: Age-Raymond Riise is an electrical engineer and keeps the ESA tracking station network going.