Bridge to PARIS: testing Earth monitoring via satnav

Every space mission has to begin somewhere. The Zeeland motorway bridge on the Dutch coast is…

ATV Control Centre – Video

Credits: ESA TV, 2011

Luca spacewalk training

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano during spacewalk training in ESA's Neutral Buoyancy Facility at the European Astronaut…

Luca Parmitano will fly to ISS in 2013 – Image

Credits: Credits: ESA - M. Koell, 2009

Shaping a transition from rocket fuel to oil rigs

Technology used to shape rocket fuel tanks could help one German company to form floats for…

Shaping a transition from rocket fuel to oil rigs

Technology used to shape rocket fuel tanks could help one German company to form floats for…

Hoisting of Vega’s payload composite – Image

Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011

ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli took this photograph of the ATV Johannes Kepler launch from on board the ISS – Image

Credits: ESA/NASA

The ‘boot’ – Image

Credits: ESA

The calculated distribution of dark matter – Image

Credits: The Virgo Consortium/Alexandre Amblard/ESA