Team members by reflector

Members of the LABUM test team at the ESTEC Test Centre beside the 5-m reflector on…

Six-degree-of-freedom microvibration machine

The latest addition to ESA’s satellite-testing facilities is this six-degree-of-freedom microvibration unit, sufficiently sensitive to identify…

Lonely lunch

ESA-sponsored medical doctor Floris van den Berg scans the horizon and contemplates life at Concordia research…

Moon Village

Almost 50 years since man first walked on the lunar surface, the head of the European…

Careers@Harwell

Pascal Lecomte speaks about the history and the aims of the ESA Climate Office which is…

Ultraviolet image shows the Sun’s intricate atmosphere

This eerie coloured orb is nothing less than the life-giver of the Solar System. It is…

Gyroscopes in space

Gyroscopes form an important in keeping the International Space Station and satellites pointing the right way…

Comet on 15 March 2016 – NavCam

Single frame enhanced NavCam image taken on 15 March 2016, when Rosetta was about 13 km…

St Patrick’s

Ireland seen from the International Space Station by ESA astronaut Tim Peake. Tim commented on the…

Yuma chequerboard

This false-colour Sentinel-2A image captured on 20 August 2015 takes us to the city of Yuma…