Tromsø, Norway

With Christmas almost here, the red and white of this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image bring a festive…

Season's greetings from the European Space Agency

Season’s greetings from the European Space Agency Click here for original story, Season’s…

Parachute bag

Close-up of the parachute bag – containing one of two test parachutes of the ExoMars 2020…

Promising progress for ExoMars parachutes

A series of ground-based tests designed to check the extraction of the ExoMars 2020 mission’s parachutes…

ExoMars parachute extraction tests

Video: 00:00:32 A series of clips from different angles and at different speeds showing parachute extraction…

Call for Media: Director General’s Annual Press Conference

Press Release N° 26–2019 ESA invites media to a start of year press conference laying out…

International Space Station computer gets a heart transplant

The Space Station has grown to the size of a football field and space agencies are…

40 years of Ariane

ESA and partners celebrate 40 years of Ariane – a launch vehicle operating in the international…

Liftoff for Cheops, ESA’s exoplanet mission

ESA’s Cheops mission lifted off on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana,…

Liftoff for Cheops

ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The Soyuz-Fregat…