Comet on 17 June 2016 – NavCam

Single frame enhanced NavCam image taken on 17 June 2016, when Rosetta was about 30.8 km…

Keeping Gaia’s memory

ESA’s Gaia mission is generating an enormous amount of data as it works to plot the…

Making – and testing – for Mercury

The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury must withstand extremely harsh conditions while in orbit around the…

Securing Aeolus against atomic oxygen

Up at the top of the atmosphere the oxygen we breathe is replaced by highly reactive…

Getting Vega’s launch tower moving

Once its mobile launch gantry is moved away, then Europe’s Vega launcher is primed for lift-off…

Mediterranean Wonders

Various countries in the Mediterranean Sea were captured last 10 May by the Sentinel-3A satellite, in…

Earth from Space: Mediterranean wonders

Earth from Space is presented by Malì Cecere from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The one…

CAVES underground

Caves offer a dark and alien underground environment with many analogies to space. Deep underground, our…

Good luck to CanSat students

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet wishes good luck to all student teams participating in the 2016 CanSat…

Sentinel space testing

Technology image of the week: Sentinel-2B being lowered into Europe's largest vacuum chamber for testing