Integrated circuits on silicon wafer

All of our most skilled space capabilities depend ultimately on an object such as this. Carefully…

Body-mounted astronaut joystick

Body-mounted astronaut joystick for the Haptics-1 experiment, developed by ESA's Telerobotics and Haptics Laboratory as part…

Sentinel-1 EDRS laser

The Laser Communication Terminal (LCT) unit on Sentinel-1 transmits data to the ground facility via the…

Sentinel-1 radar modes

The C-band synthetic aperture radar on Sentinel-1 operates in four acquisition modes, the primary two being…

Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1, the first in the family of Copernicus satellites, will be used to care for many aspects…

Sentinel-1 Fregat separation

Artist’s impression of the Sentinel-1 launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket.

Sentinel-1 fairing opening

Artist’s impression of the Sentinel-1 launch on a Russian Soyuz rocket.

Unloading Sentinel-1

Unloading Sentinel-1 from the Antonov aircraft, which arrived in French Guiana on 24 February 2014.  Sentinel-1…

Cloaked in red

This stunning new Hubble image shows a small part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of…

Alexander using a flare for survival training

ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst using a flare during winter survival training near Star City, Russia, on 23…