Spacelab airlock

Technology image of the week: Marking the 30th anniversary of Spacelab's first launch this week, the…

Comet ISON approaches the Sun

Comet ISON at 12:42 UT on 27 November as seen in SOHO's LASCO C3 field of…

Spacelab-1 in orbit

The ESA Spacelab-1 laboratory module in the payload bay of Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-9, November 1983

Spacelab-1/STS-9 launch, 28 November 1983

28 November 1983: Liftoff of Space Shuttle Columbia on the first flight of ESA’s Spacelab.

Spacelab-1/STS-9 launch, 28 November 1983

28 November 1983: Liftoff of Space Shuttle Columbia on the first flight of ESA’s Spacelab.

From launch to landing: Luca’s Volare mission

Luca Parmitano was the first of ESA’s class of 2009 astronauts to visit the International Space…

Magnetic field: learning more with Swarm

To learn more about Earth’s magnetic field, the three Swarm satellites were launched on 22 November.…

Spacelab-1 Sled experiment, 1981

A test subject sitting on Sled, an ESA experiment launched on Spacelab-1 on 28 November 1983.…

Paxi in the Drop Tower

Paxi free falling in the ZARM Drop Tower and experimenting weightlessness during 4.7 seconds.

Magnetic field: why it matters

Earth’s magnetic field is continuously changing. Magnetic north wanders, and every few hundred thousand years the…