Gaia telescope

Gaia is a space telescope, or rather, two space telescopes. Its telescopes involve ten mirrors of…

Paris Air and Space Show 2013 – Press conference: Jean-Jacques Dordain

Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, provided an overview of ESA programmes and answered questions from media at…

ATV-4 docking to the International Space Station – transmission replay

ESA’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, completed a flawless rendezvous with the International Space Station on…

ATV-4 docking sequence – replay

ESA’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle, Albert Einstein, completed a flawless rendezvous with the International Space Station on…

ATV vs. UD: DJ Young Einstein vs. ATV Albert Einstein

For the 2013 Automated Transfer Vehicle docking day music video, ESA teamed up with California hip hop…

Earth from Space: South Island

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios.Explore New Zealand’s…

New Zealand’s South Island

New Zealand’s South Island is pictured in this Envisat image from 4 April 2012. There are a…

Alphasat solar array installation

4 June, 2013 Alphasat has its solar arrays installed at Astrium, ready for shipment to its…

GAIA soon to map the Milky Way

Gaia is a global space astrometry mission. Its goal is to make the largest, most precise…

ATV-4 before docking

The fourth in ESA's series of five Automated Transfer Vehicles was launched on June 5th, 2013…