Europe’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission is set to become humanity’s first mission to a double asteroid,…
Author: ESA Space Engineering & Technology
Dawn of Asteroid Day
Technology image of the week: ESA's Asteroid Impact Mission next to its target, to mark Thursday's…
Sentinel space testing
Technology image of the week: Sentinel-2B being lowered into Europe's largest vacuum chamber for testing
Made for Mercury
Technology image of the week: the shiny face of Japan's contribution to the BepiColombo mission to…
Seeing the satnav for the trees
ESA turned to the academic world to sharpen its understanding of how woodland vegetation can negatively…
Calling all university students interested in designing space missions
The ESA Academy Training and Learning Programme is offering a new opportunity to European students who…
Video: netting a satellite
Nets could serve to capture large items of space debris. This video shows a prototype net…
Cold gas in deep space
Operations image of the week: Mission controllers use these cold-gas thrusters to keep LISA Pathfinder where…
Chips with everything
Technology image of the week: these varied integrated circuits, etched onto a single piece of silicon,…
Air conditioning goes green
The ingenuity of four space engineers has created a zero-emission air-conditioning system that doesn’t pollute our…