Artist’s impression of Ceres

Dwarf planet Ceres is located in the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.…

Soyuz TMA-15M, Futura mission patch, 2014

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (IT) is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the…

Soyuz TMA-15M, Futura mission patch, 2014

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (IT) is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the…

Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1 is the first satellite dedicated to Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. This new satellite carries…

Alexander Gerst VNR

Alexander Gerst is the second of ESA's new astronauts to be selected to fly to the…

Discussing the Philae lander at the Rosetta wake-up event

Prof. Jean Pierre Bibring (Philae lead scientist and Principal Investigator CIVA), Dr. Stephan Ulamec (Philae Lander…

Joel Parker and Holger Sierks at Rosetta wake-up

Joel Parker, Deputy Principal Investigator ALICE, and Holger Sierks, Principal Investigator of OSIRIS, talking to moderator…

Q&A session at the ESOC Rosetta wake-up event

Markus Bauer (Science Programme Officer),  Jean-Jacques Dordain (Director General of ESA), Thomas Reiter (ESA Director of…

Rosetta Wake-up signal cheer

Mission controllers cheer the first signal received from the Rosetta spacecraft on 20 January 2014. Rosetta…

Rosetta Wake-up signal cheer

Mission controllers cheer the first signal received from the Rosetta spacecraft on 20 January 2014. Rosetta…