Cavenauts 2016 underground

Astronauts on ESA's 2016 underground training course CAVES pose for a picture in the Sos Jocos…

Testing Schiaparelli’s parachute

This is a test version of the parachute that will slow the Schiaparelli entry, descent and…

Why CAVES – Astrobiology

NASA's director of Astrobiology Institue, Penelope Boston, explains why caves are interesting to astrobiologists. Caves are…

ESA Euronews: Sport and Internet via satellite

Dozens of Euro 2016 matches are being beamed via satellite to television sets and phones all…

Comet on 17 June 2016 – NavCam

Single frame enhanced NavCam image taken on 17 June 2016, when Rosetta was about 30.8 km…

Keeping Gaia’s memory

ESA’s Gaia mission is generating an enormous amount of data as it works to plot the…

Making – and testing – for Mercury

The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury must withstand extremely harsh conditions while in orbit around the…

Securing Aeolus against atomic oxygen

Up at the top of the atmosphere the oxygen we breathe is replaced by highly reactive…

Getting Vega’s launch tower moving

Once its mobile launch gantry is moved away, then Europe’s Vega launcher is primed for lift-off…

Mediterranean Wonders

Various countries in the Mediterranean Sea were captured last 10 May by the Sentinel-3A satellite, in…