Catching signals faster

SARAS – a Spanish acronym for ‘Fast Acquisition of Satellites and Launchers’ – enables ground stations…

Star factory NGC 7538

The billowing clouds portrayed in this image from ESA’s Herschel observatory are part of NGC 7538,…

Ecuador’s highlands

Ecuador’s northern highlands are pictured in this image from Envisat. Near the top left of the…

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

Portrait of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti wearing NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit. Samantha is currently…

Sentinel-1A arrives in Kourou

The Sentinel-1A radar satellite has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to be prepared over…

Earth from Space: Ecuadorian elevations

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the…

Łódź, Poland

In the centre of Poland lies its third-largest city: Łódź. Seen from the International Space Station…

Integrated circuits on silicon wafer

All of our most skilled space capabilities depend ultimately on an object such as this. Carefully…

Body-mounted astronaut joystick

Body-mounted astronaut joystick for the Haptics-1 experiment, developed by ESA's Telerobotics and Haptics Laboratory as part…

Sentinel-1 EDRS laser

The Laser Communication Terminal (LCT) unit on Sentinel-1 transmits data to the ground facility via the…