SMOS – Science

A better knowledge of our planet behaviour; this is the objective of SMOS that will be…

Zoom out of Stephan’s Quintet – Video

Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

STS-128 crew line up behind Discovery – Image

Credits: NASA

Space Shuttle Discovery slows to a stop after landing at Edwards Air Force Base at the end of the STS-128 mission – Image

Credits: NASA

Plentiful plankton – Image

Credits: ESA, 2009

Chinks in ISS armour deliver data on space junk impacts

Speeding along in orbit at more than seven kilometres per second, the International Space Station has…

ESA astronauts Frank De Winne and Christer Fuglesang participate in an inflight call with Swedish TV – Video

Credits: NASA TV

The International Space Station is seen from Space Shuttle Discovery – Image

Credits: ESA/NASA

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission – Video

Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab/Artbeats Digital Film Library/BBC

ESA preparing ‘sugar-cube’ gyro sensors for future missions

One of ESA's future Earth observation missions will monitor its orientation in space with the help…