Sentinel-1B’s first image

Sentinel-1B’s first data strip stretches 600 km from 80°N degrees through the Barents Sea. The image,…

Recording of student-built OUFTI-1 CubeSat

Recording of signal coming from student-built CubeSat OUFTI-1 which, as part of ESA's Education 'Fly Your…

Comet on 23 April 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera

OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 23 April 2016, when Rosetta was 29.6 km from Comet…

Tim Peake goes roving

In a live space-to-ground test of human–robot cooperation, ESA astronaut Tim Peake will control a rover…

T6 ion thruster firing

The eerie blue exhaust trail of an ion thruster during a test firing. A quartet of…

Trail to Mercury

Technology image of the week: the eerie blue exhaust trail of a T6 ion thruster, a…

Spheroids

The Spheroids experiment is looking at how the cells that line our blood vessels react to…

Sentinel-1B lifts off

Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket, flight VS14, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on…

Sentinel-1B lifts off

Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket, flight VS14, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on…

Sentinel-1B launch replay

Replay of the Sentinel-1B launch coverage from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The second satellite in…