Down the slopes with space app in your pocket

Track your skiing, speed, altitude, slopes and lift kilometres with a nifty phone app from an…

Zone of silence

Technology image of the week: the weirdly hushed interior of ESA's Compact Payload Test Range for…

Zone of silence

Satellite engineers learn to get used to the weirdly hushed interior of the Compact Payload Test…

Proba-V video

A new Earth from Space video looks back at Vega's launch of Proba-V in May

Thomas Pesquet EVA training

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet descending underwater during spacewalk training at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston,…

Kappa Coronae Borealis

Kappa Coronae Borealis, based on Herschel PACS observations at 100 μm. North is up and east…

CanSat video

Sequences extracted from the 2012 European competition campaign at Andøya Rocket Range in Norway.

Micha Schmidt and Elsa Montagnon talk about their careers at ESA

Micha Schmidt is a Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESA. In this video he talks about his…

VEGA VNR

After its successful qualification flight on 13 February 2012, Vega is on its launch pad on…

Dusty detail in elliptical galaxy NGC 2768

The soft glow in the picture above is NGC 2768, an elliptical galaxy located in the…