Pre-flight Soyuz check for Exp 52/53

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli (left) and fellow Expedition 52/53 crew mates Sergey Ryazansky of Roscosmos (centre)…

Ariane 6

At the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the new launch facilities for ESA’s Ariane 6…

Ariane 6

At the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the new launch facilities for ESA’s Ariane 6…

Air quality monitoring for Copernicus

The Sentinels are a fleet of satellites designed specifically to deliver the wealth of data and…

Sentinel-5P offers daily coverage

The Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases…

RAT rover by night

ESA’s light-studded Rover Autonomy Testbed seen during night testing in Tenerife, intended to simulate the low…

Supersonic parachute testing

This parachute deployed at supersonic velocity from a test capsule hurtling down towards snow-covered northern Sweden…

Working on Tropomi

Tropomi – the most advanced multispectral imaging spectrometer to date – is carried on the Copernicus…

Bringing air pollution into focus

Sentinel-5 Precursor is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. With air pollution a…

Simplifying complexity

The flight dynamics experts working on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission meet regularly to assess…