Unlocking ESA’s Heritage Missions data archive

Join us as we enter ESA’s Heritage Missions data archive, which stores Earth observation data dating…

ESA’s final observations of asteroid 2024 RW1

On 4 September at 16:39 UTC (18:39 CEST), the small asteroid 2024 RW1 entered Earth’s atmosphere…

Episode 2 – Below the surface

Watch the second episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission – Europe’s ambitious exploration journey…

ESA – Wildfires in Brazil

This image was captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 9 September 2024 and shows wildfires…

A look back at Sentinel-2C’s ride into space on Vega

The third Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, Sentinel-2C, has launched aboard the last Vega rocket, flight VV24, from…

Space Team Europe for Vega: final liftoff

Interviews with personnel that worked on the last Vega rocket, flight VV24, with Sentinel-2C onboard. The…

Cluster reentry explained: world’s first targeted reentry

The first of four satellites that make up ESA’s Cluster mission is coming safely back down to Earth,…

Black hole pair embedded in middle of active galaxy MCG-03-34-064

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have confirmed a pair of supermassive…

Cluster satellite reenters Earth’s atmosphere

The first recorded observation of a satellite reentry from a high-speed orbit, taken from a plane…

Metal 3D Printer – clips

The Metal 3D Printer, a collaboration between ESA and Airbus, is the first metal 3D printer…