European technology is making it easier to catch signals from speeding satellites. SARAS – a Spanish…
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Catching signals faster
SARAS – a Spanish acronym for ‘Fast Acquisition of Satellites and Launchers’ – enables ground stations…
Star factory NGC 7538
The billowing clouds portrayed in this image from ESA’s Herschel observatory are part of NGC 7538,…
Space storm
European and international researchers team up to study equatorial space weather and African water management through…
Ecuador’s highlands
Ecuador’s northern highlands are pictured in this image from Envisat. Near the top left of the…
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti
Portrait of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti wearing NASA's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit. Samantha is currently…
Sentinel-1A arrives in Kourou
The Sentinel-1A radar satellite has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to be prepared over…
Earth from Space: Ecuadorian elevations
Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. In the…
Łódź, Poland
In the centre of Poland lies its third-largest city: Łódź. Seen from the International Space Station…
Smartly etched
Technology image of the week: All of our most skilled space capabilities depend ultimately on an…