ESA has set up a dedicated unit to work on the standardised nanosatellites called ‘CubeSats’, teaming…
Author: ESA Space Engineering & Technology
Forging the future
Where does ESA get its ideas from? One major source of new concepts is through our Discovery…
Forging the future
Where does ESA get its ideas from? One major source of new concepts is through our Discovery…
Where space missions are born
A high-resolution radar mission to Earth’s ‘evil twin’ Venus, a spacecraft to detect the most powerful…
Where space missions are born
A high-resolution radar mission to Earth’s ‘evil twin’ Venus, a spacecraft to detect the most powerful…
Video: Building spaceships
How do you build a spaceship? It’s not easy, because space is risky – but potential…
Video: Building spaceships
How do you build a spaceship? It’s not easy, because space is risky – but potential…
20 years of ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility: an oral history
It looks like a flight control room, on the upper floor laboratory corridor of ESA's ESTEC…
20 years of ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility: an oral history
It looks like a flight control room, on the upper floor laboratory corridor of ESA's ESTEC…
Tortoise islands
Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite images the Galápagos island chain, inspiration for Charles…