The International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery – Image

Credits: ESA/NASA

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission – Video

Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab/Artbeats Digital Film Library/BBC

ESA preparing ‘sugar-cube’ gyro sensors for future missions

One of ESA's future Earth observation missions will monitor its orientation in space with the help…

Proba-2 flies into its Russian launch site – Image

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Christer Fuglesang participates in the third STS-128 spacewalk – Image

Credits: NASA

ESA astronauts Frank De Winne (left) and Christer Fuglesang inside the International Space Station’s Quest Airlock – Image

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NASA astronaut John Olivas works to remove experiment pallets from the external platform on Columbus – Image

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Proba-2 flies into its Russian launch site

Proba-2 has reached Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, where it is being prepared for launch this…

Envisat captures Hurricane Jimena – Image

Credits: ESA

Weaknesses in dikes detected by space tech spin-off

A company from one of ESA’s Business Incubation Centres has used space technology to develop a…