Ariane 5 flight VA208 – Image

Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique Video du CSG

Ladon basin in full colour – Image

Credits: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

August 2012 – ESA Calendar – Goodie

ESA’s Clean Space targets orbital debris and greener environment

Next year’s Hollywood film Gravity features George Clooney stranded in orbit by cascading space junk. The…

A decade of future visions from ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team

Ion beams to clean up space debris, exotic metamaterials, fluid-like spacecraft made up of many tiny…

Running on empty

When you consider the cost of launching a satellite, it’s small wonder that ESA is looking…

Neemo aquanauts

Neemo aquanauts descending to their base 20 m under the sea. During a 12-day mission, ESA…

ESA tests self-steering rover in ‘Mars’ desert

ESA assembled a top engineering team, then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to…

Alexander Soucek on his tasks as a programme coordinator

In this video Alexander Soucek talks about his fascination for space and his role as Programme…

Bernhard von Weyhe on doing PR for an intergovernmental organisation

In this video Bernhard von Weyhe talks about his role as PR Manager at ESOC and…