Vega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 23 June…
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Fully assembled Vega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, ready for launch
Sentinel-2 and Vega VV05, after the mobile gantry withdrawal, waiting to be launched at Europe’s Spaceport in…
Sentinel-2A launch: full replay
Full replay of the launch coverage of the Sentinel-2A satellite, which lifted off on a Vega…
Sentinel-2A launch event webcast
Replay of the Sentinel-2A launch event at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany on 23…
Sentinel-2A liftoff
Replay of the Sentinel-2A liftoff on a Vega launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at…
LISA Pathfinder electrode housing box
This photo, suggestive of an old-fashioned lift cage, in fact shows inside a much smaller enclosure:…
ESA Pavilion, at the 2015 Paris Air and Space Show
ESA Pavilion, at the 2015 Paris Air and Space Show, on 20 June 2015.
Thomas Pesquet meets the public at the ESA pavilion
Public during the "Astronaut training and mission preparation" lively presentation, given by Thomas Pesquet, ESA astronaut, at…
San Francisco Bay Area, USA
The Landsat-8 satellite captured this image of the San Francisco Bay Area in the US state…
Sentinel-2A encapsulation and integration on Vega VV05
Sentinel-2A being encapsulated within the half-shells of the Vega rocket fairing and integrated at the top…