ESA’s ‘Cubesat central’ for smaller missions into space

ESA has set up a dedicated unit to work on the standardised nanosatellites called ‘CubeSats’, teaming…

Forging the future

Where does ESA get its ideas from? One major source of new concepts is through our Discovery…

Forging the future

Where does ESA get its ideas from? One major source of new concepts is through our Discovery…

Where space missions are born

A high-resolution radar mission to Earth’s ‘evil twin’ Venus, a spacecraft to detect the most powerful…

Where space missions are born

A high-resolution radar mission to Earth’s ‘evil twin’ Venus, a spacecraft to detect the most powerful…

Video: Building spaceships

How do you build a spaceship? It’s not easy, because space is risky – but potential…

Video: Building spaceships

How do you build a spaceship? It’s not easy, because space is risky – but potential…

20 years of ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility: an oral history

It looks like a flight control room, on the upper floor laboratory corridor of ESA's ESTEC…

20 years of ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility: an oral history

It looks like a flight control room, on the upper floor laboratory corridor of ESA's ESTEC…

Tortoise islands

Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite images the Galápagos island chain, inspiration for Charles…