Firing up Arcos – the European aerospike engine

Scenes from testing Pangea Aerospace’s Arcos aerospike rocket engine at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, test…

Pangea’s methalox aerospike engine – first in the world!

Spanish company Pangea Aerospace developed and tested the first aerospike engine in the world to run…

ESA – Spectrum first flight

European commercial rocket Spectrum, developed and operated by Isar Aerospace, took flight from Andøya Spaceport in…

ESA – Aleš Svoboda | Supersonic, Space Stuff & STEM

Meet Aleš Svoboda— A skilled pilot with over 1500 flight hours, Aleš holds a PhD in…

Earth from Space: Great Barrier Reef, Australia

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of one of the world’s natural wonders – the Great…

Swan song for stars and cameras

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like…

ESA – Fuelling Biomass

Marking a major milestone in the preparation of ESA’s Biomass satellite for its scheduled 29 April…

Space Rider’s ALEK in LEAF

A part of the orbital module for the European Space Agency’s reuseable spacecraft Space Rider in…

New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes

Engineers from the European Space Agency’s Radio Frequency Equipment and Technology section successfully tested a new…

P160C solid-propellant rocket motor rolls out to its test stand

The first model of a future Ariane booster and Vega rocket stage is rolled out to…