Earth from Space: Eastern Desert

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

Simulating reentries for safer satellites

It’s not often that space engineers get to practise the destruction of satellites, but a team…

‘Polar-sitting’ orbit

Tomorrow’s orbit today? This image shows how a large solar sail-equipped satellite could partly offset Earth’s…

Building Radar receives the prize

ESA’s Thomas Beer and Joseph Aschbacher hand the first prize to Building Radar, the team who…

Barcelona from Sentinel-2A

App Camp 2016 took place at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Fuelling the Trace Gas Orbiter

The ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter being fuelled at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. In March,…

ISS reboost

Ever wondered what happens inside the International Space Station during a reboost? ESA astronaut Tim Peake…

Comet on 13 February 2016 – OSIRIS narrow-angle camera

OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 13 February 2016, when Rosetta was 46.2 km from Comet…

AIM’s eye view

A new video clip shows what ESA's Asteroid Impact Mission would see as it approaches its…

ESA in partnership with Europe’s railways

Europe’s railway network plays a vital role in keeping our continent on the move. A new…