Deployment of the solar wings on the first Galileo satellite 'Full Operational Capability' satellite is shown…
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Luca Parmitano’s first spacewalk
Astronauts Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy switched their spacesuits to battery power and began their spacewalk…
Planet Proba-V
Technology image of the week: the first global map from ESA's recently launched Proba-V mission
Probing vegetation across the globe
The first global map of vegetation from the recently launched Proba-V has been unveiled, demonstrating that…
Sentinel-1 encapsulation vacuum chamber
Sentinel-1A being enclosed in the vacuum chamber at Thales Alenia Space near Rome, Italy. Here, the…
Alphasat fuelled with chemical propellant
Alphasat completed the fuelling operations on July 5, 2013. A specialist Thales Alenia Space team loaded…
Checking the spacesuits
Chris Cassidy (left) and Luca Parmitano checking their spacesuits on 3 July 2013. During their sortie…
MIRI integration into JWST payload module
MIRI, the mid-infrared camera and spectrograph (left), was installed in the science payload module of the…