Fit for space – Soyuz training

In the first episode of our ‘Fit for space’ training series, ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and…

Soyuz ride to the Space Station

The ride to the International Space Station sees astronauts launched on top of a rocket fuelled…

Prospecting the Moon

A European drill and sample analysis package will search for water ice and other chemicals under…

Research in space for all: foams

Foams are ubiquitous in our daily lives: they are used to produce food, detergents and plastics.…

A beautiful whorl

Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes. One of the key galaxy types we see in the Universe…

Palm oil plantations

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan – the Indonesian…

Earth from space: Palm oil plantations, Borneo

In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over palm…

Soyuz rollout for Beyond mission

The Russian Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft that will transport ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano to the International Space…

Expedition 60 with their Soyuz

In the Integration Building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 60 crewmembers Drew Morgan of…

The Moon camera

Which camera to send to the Moon? The iconic images taken with the Hasselblad 500 series…