W40’s cradle of stars

Six hundred newly forming stars are crowded into these colourful filaments of dust that form a…

Layout of the LEON2-FT chip, alias AT697

Boasting a fivefold performance improvement on the ERC32, ESA’s LEON2-FT is once more manufactured by Atmel,…

Altimeter reading over Cuba

CryoSat altimeter view of sea level and topography over the Caribbean Sea and Cuba. The image…

Kangerdlugssuaq glacier, Greenland

The Kangerdlugssuaq glacier and its ice stream are pictured in this week’s image, acquired on 19…

Earth from Space: Water and ice

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

ESA Euronews: Flying Zero-G

If you fly a plane in the right way at the right speed, you can be…

VA211 liftoff

On 19 December, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on…

Final series of tests for Proba-V

Final series of tests for Proba-V, on 13 December 2012, at QinetiQ Space Belgium. Planned to…

Three of the first six Galileo FOC satellites at OHB

Three of the first six Galileo Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites being assembled and prepared for the…

ESA 2012 Highlights

2012 was a very busy and fruitful year for ESA. This video looks back at this…