OPS-SAT in orbit: a stepping stone to smarter space operations

ESA’s shoebox-sized OPS-SAT is in orbit and sending healthy signals to mission controllers on Earth. The…

Luca’s Christmas message

Video: 00:05:18 ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano shares a message with everyone back on Earth as he…

ESA Highlights: a visual showcase of ESA’s key activities in 2019

ESA Highlights 2019: a closer look at ESA’s achievements in the past year …

From airport approaches to eCall in cars – 10 years of EGNOS

The Galileo satellite navigation system has been providing Initial Services for three years now. Meanwhile Europe’s…

Discs and bulges

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy in the southern constellation of…

Earth from Space: Tromsø

Video: 00:02:34 This week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme features a Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over Tromsø…

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…