Time-lapse of a long night of loading operations for the delivery of second European Service Module…
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Three hours to save Integral
On 22 September, around midday, ESA’s Integral spacecraft went into emergency Safe Mode. One of the…
Solar storm stirs stunning aurora
Video: 00:00:29 After the Sun ejected a violent mass of fast-moving plasma into space on 9…
Ariane 6 development: progress on all fronts
These are exciting days at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and throughout several sites in ESA…
Week in images: 11 – 15 October 2021
Week in images: 11 – 15 October 2021 Discover our week through the lens …
How a spacecraft ‘feels’ a planetary flyby
How a spacecraft ‘feels’ a planetary flyby Caption: A spectrogram visualising the effects of the 1-2…
Sound of the solar wind at Mercury
BepiColombo flew past Mercury for the first time on 1 October 2021, capturing data with the…
Feeling a close Mercury flyby
This section of BepiColombo Monitoring Camera imagery is set to an audio soundtrack that corresponds to…
BepiColombo’s first tastes of Mercury science
The magnetic and particle environment around Mercury was sampled by BepiColombo for the first time during…
Earth from Space: New Delhi, India
This week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme features a Copernicus Sentinel-2 image of New Delhi,…