Countdown to Shuttle return to flight

Launch pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida will soon see the Shuttle blasting off…

Sand Dunes from Space

This Envisat image shows two huge sand dune seas in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya,…

WISE study starts in Toulouse

Since Saturday, 19 March, the study entitled Women International Space Simulation for Exploration (WISE) has been…

Space debris: assessing the risk

Assessing the risk that space debris pose to operational spacecraft and satellites is a challenge and…

Large Space Simulator

A new ‘specimen access device’ (SPAD) to allow safe and fast access to spacecraft being tested…

Giant Iceberg

Envisat radar imagery confirms that the B-15A iceberg ­ the world’s largest floating object ­ is…

Bombay India

The southern part of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in India as seen from ESA’s Proba microsatellite. The…

Hourglass Shaped Craters

This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft,…

PlayStation Previews Space Ttechnology

PlayStation users worldwide can now see for themselves what happens when Ariane launcher technology is applied…

Global Check of Methane Emissions

The SCIAMACHY sensor aboard Envisat has performed the first space-based measurements of the global distribution of…