On 3 February 2016, Jan Woerner, ESA Director General, and Maaike Vancauwenberghe, Chair of the European Polar…
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Comet on 30 January 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera
OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 30 January 2016, when Rosetta was 61.8 km from Comet…
Treemetrics woodland laser scan
A commercial forest seen through the ‘eyes’ of a 3D laser scanning system developed by the…
Sentinel-3: Technology and heritage
ESA’s new Earth observation satellite Sentinal-3A will soon be launched into orbit. Once more the European…
Sentinel-3A in the fairing
Sentinel-3A will be taken into orbit on a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern…
London nightlife
ESA astronaut Tim Peake took this image of London, UK, from the International Space Station 400…
Philae facing eternal hibernation
15 months after Philae made its historic landing on a comet, its legacy is enormous even…
The Unearthly Beauty of the Red Rectangle
Straight lines do not often crop up in space. Whenever they do, they seem somehow incongruous…
EDRS-A liftoff
The first laser node of the European Data Relay System lifted off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan atop…