Parachute bag

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

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…

Cheops liftoff

Video: 00:02:00 ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.…

Europe powers up for third and fourth Orion spacecraft

Europe will power the NASA spacecraft that take astronauts to a new international outpost and forward…

Methane leak visible from space

Image: Data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite revealed that an explosion in a natural gas well…

The sprite before Christmas

Image: Someone decked the skies with boughs of sprites. The red jellyfish in the sky is…