Living in space is no easy task, and one of the largest concerns for mission planners…
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Large Space Simulator
An external view of Europe’s largest vacuum chamber, the Large Space Simulator, which subjects entire satellites…
Large Space Simulator
An external view of Europe’s largest vacuum chamber, the Large Space Simulator, which subjects entire satellites…
Preview of Gaia’s sky in colour
This map is a preview of Gaia’s measurements of the sky in colour. The image includes…
Preview of Gaia’s sky in colour
This map is a preview of Gaia’s measurements of the sky in colour. The image includes…
Circular formation
Clockwise from top: ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson, Roscosmos cosmonaut…
Circular formation
Clockwise from top: ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson, Roscosmos cosmonaut…
Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System
Animation visualising the propagation of a coronal mass ejection leaving the Sun on 14 October 2014…
Multispacecraft view
Observations of the 14 October 2014 coronal mass ejection seen by various Sun-watching spacecraft. The eruption…
SOHO’s view
The 14 October 2014 coronal mass ejection (CME) was associated with a medium-class X-ray flare (M1.1…