Esrange launch tower

An interior view of a launch tower for suborbital rockets at Esrange, near Kiruna in Sweden.…

Comet on 9 January 2016 – OSIRIS wide-angle camera

OSIRIS wide-angle camera image taken on 9 January 2016, when Rosetta was 78.8 km from the…

ExoMars on the road for launch

Establishing if life ever existed on Mars is one of the outstanding scientific questions of our…

Sentinel-3 solar array

After separation from the Rockot launcher’s Breeze upper stage, the solar array is deployed. The satellite…

A multitalented mission

Each Sentinel-3 satellite carries four instruments that work in synergy top provide systematic measurements of Earth’s…

Sentinel-3 second-stage separation

Sentinel-3A will be taken into orbit on a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern…

LISA Pathfinder commissioning simulation

This timelapse video shows teams from ESA and Airbus Defence and Space (the prime contractor for…

Dark pools on Titan

This radar image from the Cassini orbiter shows a thin strip of surface on Saturn’s moon…

Climate change: A diagnostic from space

Beyond what our own experience may tell us, satellite technology allows scientists to get a truly…

Taoiseach at ESTEC

Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny addressing Irish ESA employees during his visit to the ESTEC technical centre…