FRIPON network: watching the skies

Mounted at the highest point of ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, a fisheye camera…

Pangaea – geology training for space exploration

ESA’s Pangaea training course prepares astronauts and space engineers to identify planetary geological features during future…

Pangaea – geology training for space exploration

ESA’s Pangaea training course prepares astronauts and space engineers to identify planetary geological features during future…

SMART-1’s crash site

This greyscale, mottled image shows a patch of the Moon’s surface, and features an intriguing shape…

SMART-1’s crash site

This greyscale, mottled image shows a patch of the Moon’s surface, and features an intriguing shape…

Releasing the Dragon

This timelapse video shows still pictures taken from the International Space Station of the departing Dragon…

Bye bye Cygnus

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor commanded the International Space Station’s 16-m robotic…

Releasing the Dragon

This timelapse video shows still pictures taken from the International Space Station of the departing Dragon…

Bye bye Cygnus

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor commanded the International Space Station’s 16-m robotic…

Summer brown

With much of Europe recently subjected to a prolonged heatwave and lack of rain, brown was…