The Didymos binary system

Animation calculated from real data showing the movement of Didymoon around the primary asteroid.

EDRS-A launch highlights

The first laser node of the European Data Relay System was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan atop…

Going to space

Copernicus is the most ambitious Earth observation programme to date, and it is providing accurate, timely and…

Going to space

Copernicus is the most ambitious Earth observation programme to date, and it is providing accurate, timely and…

Perspective view in Noctis Labyrinthus

This perspective view in Noctis Labyrinthus was generated from the main camera’s stereo channels on ESA’s…

Perspective view in Noctis Labyrinthus

This perspective view in Noctis Labyrinthus was generated from the main camera’s stereo channels on ESA’s…

SmallGEO AG1: solar panel deployed for testing at IABG

SmallGEO AG1: solar panel deployed for testing at IABG, in Germany, on 22 January, 2016. Hispasat…

SmallGEO AG1: solar panel deployed for testing at IABG

SmallGEO AG1: solar panel deployed for testing at IABG, in Germany, on 22 January, 2016. Hispasat…

LISA Pathfinder prepares for liftoff

This timelapse video shows the preparations for LISA Pathfinder’s launch at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French…

Radio testing of BepiColombo orbiter

If ESA’s Mercury orbiter of the BepiColombo mission seems to stand at an unusual angle above…