On 19 November 2024 at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, Earth-observer Sentinel-1C and its payload adapter…
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ESA – Space Rider drone inspection
Animation showing possible operations for ESA’s reusable laboratory Space Rider deploying an inspection drone. Space Rider…
ESA – Space Rider orbital ballet
Animation showing a possible interoperability application in orbit of payload deployment and retrieval operations with ESA’s…
Hubble and Webb’s views of the Sombrero Galaxy
This slider tool features two views of the Sombrero Galaxy, also known as Messier 104 (M104).…
ESA – Avio’s Zefiro-40 firing
Avio’s Zefiro-40 solid rocket motor test-fire. On 3 October 2024 the Zefiro-40, the second stage of…
ESA – Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene was a devastating tropical cyclone that produced a wide swath of damage and loss…
Ground motion over Jakarta, Indonesia
The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people and is also one of…
How do radar satellites work?
Radar allows us to see through what would otherwise be invisible. By sending out radio waves…
Webb traces swirling spiral arms in infrared
Featured in this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month is the spiral galaxy NGC 2090, located in…
ESA – Proba-3 spacecraft stack
Proba-3’s Occulter spacecraft stacked on top of its Coronagraph in the SHAR cleanroom at ISRO’s Satish Dhawan…