ATV Albert Einstein ready to be moved to the fuelling room at Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana.…
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ATV-4 moved for fuelling
ATV-4 preparations continue with Albert Einstein making its way for fuelling at Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French…
Samarra, Iraq
Radarsat-2 entropy image and archaeological map over the octagonal city plan of part of ancient Samarra,…
PROBA Vegetation
Soon to be launched aboard the second VEGA flight from Kourou, PROBA V, V for Vegetation,…
Light and dust in a nearby starburst galaxy
Visible as a small, sparkling hook in the dark sky, this beautiful object is known as…
Watching over you
Like astronauts, heavy-equipment operators in remote mines can benefit from long-distance monitoring using space technology. An…
Black hole eats a super-Jupiter
Astronomers using ESA’s Integral and XMM-Newton space telescopes, NASA’s Swift and the MAXI (Monitor of All-sky…
Revealing the cosmic microwave background with Planck
This animation illustrates the painstaking detective work performed by cosmologists in the Planck Collaboration to extract…
Proba Family
This story explains what is the PROBA family and looks back at the previous PROBA missions.…
Snap-proof space tether
Space tethers hold intriguing potential for satellite manoeuvring, attitude control and even power generation. But about…