Alphasat’s pioneering high-frequency hosted payload set for experiments

European scientists can now begin probing unexplored frequencies, as mega telecom satellite Alphasat’s ‘Aldo Paraboni Q/V…

Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1 is the first satellite dedicated to Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. This new satellite carries…

Alexander Gerst VNR

Alexander Gerst is the second of ESA's new astronauts to be selected to fly to the…

Discussing the Philae lander at the Rosetta wake-up event

Prof. Jean Pierre Bibring (Philae lead scientist and Principal Investigator CIVA), Dr. Stephan Ulamec (Philae Lander…

Joel Parker and Holger Sierks at Rosetta wake-up

Joel Parker, Deputy Principal Investigator ALICE, and Holger Sierks, Principal Investigator of OSIRIS, talking to moderator…

Q&A session at the ESOC Rosetta wake-up event

Markus Bauer (Science Programme Officer),  Jean-Jacques Dordain (Director General of ESA), Thomas Reiter (ESA Director of…

Rosetta Wake-up signal cheer

Mission controllers cheer the first signal received from the Rosetta spacecraft on 20 January 2014. Rosetta…

Rosetta Wake-up signal cheer

Mission controllers cheer the first signal received from the Rosetta spacecraft on 20 January 2014. Rosetta…

Rosetta Wake-up signal

Comet 67P/CG on 5 Oct 2013

ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft will wake up today, 20 January, after 31 months in deep space hibernation,…