Polish space thruster

Technology image of the week: A Polish-built plasma thruster prototype being test-fired in ESA’s Propulsion Laboratory

Artist’s impression of Ceres

Dwarf planet Ceres is located in the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.…

Soyuz TMA-15M, Futura mission patch, 2014

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (IT) is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the…

Soyuz TMA-15M, Futura mission patch, 2014

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (IT) is assigned to fly on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft to the…

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…

Alexander Gerst VNR

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

Sentinel-1

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

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…