Unboxing a lunar spacecraft module

Unpacking the European Service Module-2 for NASA’s Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, USA. This is…

European Service Module-2 arrives at Kennedy Space Center

Unloading the European Service Module-2 for NASA’s Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, USA. This is…

Loading for the Moon

Time-lapse of a long night of loading operations for the delivery of second European Service Module…

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…