ARTES Applications: Space is open for business

The TIA Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme enables European and Canadian industry to explore…

ISS Update

The International Space Station will shortly be receiving ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano. Arriving at the station…

Luca Parmitano Mission VNR

The first of ESA's new generation of astronauts, Luca Parmitano from Italy, is about to undergo…

Namib Desert

Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite captured this image over the sand seas of the Namib Desert on 7…

Earth from Space: Dune 45

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. The sand…

SWARM soon to be exploring Earth’s magnetic field

Swarm is a constellation of three satellites to measure precisely the magnetic signals from Earth's core,…

Shady side of ATV

Technology image of the week: the other side of the solar wings built for ESA’s Automated…

Liftoff of Vega VV02

The second flight of ESA’s newest launch vehicle has been completed from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou,…

Galactic centre

The environment at the centre of our Milky Way Galaxy. The Galactic Centre hosts a supermassive…

Liftoff of Vega VV02

The second flight of ESA’s newest launch vehicle has been completed from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou,…