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