Satnav watching over rugby players

As France’s top rugby players scrum, run and tackle they are being tracked by more than…

Cheops integration atop the launcher upper stage

ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, is getting ready for launch at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French…

Rosalind meets Rosalind

Image: The work of Dr Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) is well known for being central to the…

CryoSat maps ice shelf on the move

It is now almost 10 years since ESA’s CryoSat was launched. Throughout its decade in orbit,…

Sébastien's YGT: System Engineer in the Clean Space Office

Video: 00:02:10 Sébastien Perrault talks about his YGT experience as a System Engineer working the Clean…

Galactic diversity

NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump).…

Baltic blooms

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over of the green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic…

Earth from Space: Gotland Baltic blooms

Video: 00:00:00 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us…

OPS-SAT: the flying laboratory

Video: 00:03:18 On 17 December, ESA will launch a first-of-its-kind space laboratory, OPS-SAT. The small, low-cost,…

Interaction between sea and land

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano snapped this image of Ermoupoli in the Cyclades, Greece. When he shared on…