Ice on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Examples of six different bright patches identified on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in OSIRIS narrow-angle…

Comet on 15 June 2015 – NavCam

This single frame Rosetta navigation camera image of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken on 15 June 2015…

4 October 2015: Europe’s largest place for space opens up

Europe’s largest place for space is little visited, but hugely influential: this October you get the…

Under control

Just a few minutes after separation from its Vega launcher on 23 June, the Sentinel-2A satellite…

Liftoff of Vega VV05 carrying Sentinel-2A

Vega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 23 June…

Liftoff of Vega VV05 carrying Sentinel-2A

Vega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 23 June…

Liftoff of Vega VV05 carrying Sentinel-2A

Vega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 23 June…

Liftoff of Vega VV05 carrying Sentinel-2A

Vega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 23 June…

Fully assembled Vega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, ready for launch

Sentinel-2 and Vega VV05, after the mobile gantry withdrawal, waiting to be launched at Europe’s Spaceport in…

Sentinel-2A launch event webcast

Replay of the Sentinel-2A launch event at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany on 23…