Venus Express gets wings

Both solar array ‘wings’ have been installed on ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft, and preparations at the…

Ayers Rock Australia

The vast rock formation Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) emerging from the flat desert landscape…

Alpine landscape on the Moon

This image, taken by the Advanced Moon Micro-Imager Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft, shows…

CryoSat Mission lost due to launch failure

Saturday 10/09/2005 at 21.00 CEST Mr Jury Bakhvalov, First Deputy Director General of the Khrunichev Space…

Calling all radio amateurs

Radio amateurs worldwide are being asked to help collect data from the student-built SSETI Express satellite,…

Artificial Island

The artificial island Palm Jebel Ali shown well under construction in this Proba image. The Palm…

Student Satellite Ready for Launch

SSETI Express, a low Earth orbit spacecraft designed and built by European university students under the…

CryoSat: the ice edge holds the key

Until now satellites have not been able to monitor melting of ice at the very point…

The Biblis Patera volcano

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

CryoSat – ESA’s ice mission

If our planet is warming up, what does the future hold for Earth’s frozen Poles? ESA’s…