MMO unpacked at Europe’s Spaceport

JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) of the ESA–JAXA BepiColombo mission is unpacked at Europe's Spaceport in…

Hera in orbit

ESA’s Hera mission concept, currently under study, would be humanity’s first mission to a binary asteroid:…

Testing deflection

In 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) collides with the smaller body of the Didymos…

Shaker test of 8-tonne cooling system

Typically ESA’s shaker tables are used to replicate the take-off vibrations of a satellite-lifting rocket. The…

Shaker test of 8-tonne cooling system

Typically ESA’s shaker tables are used to replicate the take-off vibrations of a satellite-lifting rocket. The…

Northern Europe

The Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite captured this rare cloud-free view of Northern Europe on 8 May 2018…

Northern Europe

The Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite captured this rare cloud-free view of Northern Europe on 8 May 2018…

Soyuz revisited

The last time ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen saw a Soyuz, he and his fellow crewmembers were…

Soyuz revisited

The last time ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen saw a Soyuz, he and his fellow crewmembers were…

Preparing CHEOPS

The space telescope CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) has left a clean room in Switzerland, where it…