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…

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…