Hera in orbit

ESA’s Hera mission concept, currently under study, would be humanity’s first mission to a binary asteroid:…

Earthquake-level testing

Technology image of the week: this 8 tonne data centre cooling system is subjected to simulated…

Earthquake-level testing

Technology image of the week: this 8 tonne data centre cooling system is subjected to simulated…

Shaker test of 8-tonne cooling system

Typically ESA’s shaker tables are used to replicate the take-off vibrations of a satellite-lifting rocket. The…

Shaker test of 8-tonne cooling system

Typically ESA’s shaker tables are used to replicate the take-off vibrations of a satellite-lifting rocket. The…

Northern Europe

The Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite captured this rare cloud-free view of Northern Europe on 8 May 2018…

Northern Europe

The Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite captured this rare cloud-free view of Northern Europe on 8 May 2018…

Soyuz revisited

The last time ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen saw a Soyuz, he and his fellow crewmembers were…

Soyuz revisited

The last time ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen saw a Soyuz, he and his fellow crewmembers were…

Preparing CHEOPS

The space telescope CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) has left a clean room in Switzerland, where it…