Seeing the satnav for the trees

ESA turned to the academic world to sharpen its understanding of how woodland vegetation can negatively…

Universum Awards

Frank Salzgeber, Head of the Technology Transfer and Promotion Office, Valerie Kayser, Head of the HR…

Josef Aschbacher

Portrait of Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director of Earth Observation.

Sentinel-1B prepares for liftoff (April 2016)

This timelapse video shows Sentinel-1B, from final preparations to liftoff on a Soyuz launcher from Europe’s…

Young star offers a glimpse of the Sun’s past

It may look like a star, it may be called a star, but it does not…

Tim Peake’s dizziness experiment

ESA astronaut Tim Peake set out to discover if he could make himself dizzy on board…

Comet on 2 June 2016 – NavCam

Single frame enhanced NavCam image taken on 2 June 2016, when Rosetta was 23.6 km from…

Calling all university students interested in designing space missions

The ESA Academy Training and Learning Programme is offering a new opportunity to European students who…

Castelli Romani

The Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over Rome's Castelli area in this natural-colour image acquired on 17…

Video: netting a satellite

Nets could serve to capture large items of space debris. This video shows a prototype net…