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Rapidly rotating black hole accreting matter
ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s NuSTAR have detected a rapidly rotating supermassive black hole in the heart…
BepiColombo MPO being placed in Phenix thermal vacuum test facility
The Mercury Planetary Orbiter, part of ESA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury, placed in the Phenix thermal…
How to cook a spacecraft
The faint aroma of hot metal filled the surrounding cleanroom as the hatch to ESA’s newest…
Chris Hadfield with Biolab
Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield conducting routine maintenance on Biolab in Europe’s Columbus laboratory on…
Age-Raymond Riise: Ground Station Engineer
Academic background: Age-Raymond Riise is an electrical engineer and keeps the ESA tracking station network going.
Lidia Icardi: Electrical power systems engineer
Academic background: Lidia Icardi works on the Solar Orbiter project and talks about her tasks as…
Anne Pacros: Payload system engineer
Academic background series: Anne Pacros is a payload system engineer on the Solar Orbiter mission and…
Tracking trains with satellite precision
Taking a cue from how ESA controls satellites, Spanish railways now have their own high-tech upgrade…
Planetary nebula ESO 456-67
Planetary nebula ESO 456-67 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula is the product…