Ariane 6 and Vega C – a new generation of European Launch Vehicles

ESA strives for the future of Europe in space and key to this endeavour is maintaining…

Time for answers: Vega-C

Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation, answers questions on Europe’s next-generation launch vehicle, Vega-C.  Vega-C…

Space Rider animation

This animation shows the launch of ESA’s reusable lifting body called Space Rider atop Vega-C. On…

Time for answers: Space Rider

Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation, answers questions on Space Rider. Space Rider is a…

Ariane 5 launchers with science missions onboard

If it wasn’t for launch capabilities we would never have delved deep into the echo of…

Bucking the trend

This luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. As this latter…

Earth from space: El Salvador

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

El Salvador

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over El Salvador, the smallest and most densely populated country…

ExoMars – Testing locomotion

The ExoMars mission will see Rosalind Franklin the rover and its surface platform Kazachok land on…

A unique experiment: exploring black holes with LISA and Athena

What happens when two supermassive black holes collide? In this video, ESA scientists Paul McNamara and…