Space is getting crowded. Old satellites, rocket bodies and fragments of both are leaving little space…
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VEGA-C VNR
Europe’s new launch vehicle, Vega-C, is near completion.Elements will soon be shipped to Kourou for assembly…
Revoir la Normandie
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet snapped this image of Normandy from the International Space Station during his…
Space debris: feel the burn
It might be counter-intuitive, but designing satellites to better fall apart is one of the key…
Hot and cold space radio testing
Image: Hot and cold space radio testing Click here for original story, Hot and…
Zooming in on solar campfires
The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) of ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission captured these views of the Sun…
‘Campfires’ offer clue to solar heating mystery
Computer simulations show that the miniature solar flares nicknamed ‘campfires’, discovered last year by ESA’s Solar…
New ESA telescope in South America to search for dangerous asteroids
ESA’s second Test-Bed Telescope has seen ‘first light’. It will help spot asteroids in space that…
New ESA telescope in South America to search for asteroids
ESA’s second Test-Bed Telescope has seen ‘first light’. It will help spot asteroids in space that…
Mission Alpha launch timelapse
Video: 00:01:17 A timelapse from various angles of the launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 with Crew…