Engineers have completed their testing of ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft in preparation for launch early next…
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Earth from Space: Leelanau Peninsula
In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 missiontakes us over…
Open Day visitor at CDF
Image: A visitor to ESA’s Open Day at ESTEC in the Netherlands on Sunday 6 October…
European boost to the all-in-one Bartolomeo service for the Space Station
Quick access to space and high-speed data transfer are paving the way for competitive science on…
Hera’s radar CubeSat will peer into asteroid’s heart
ESA’s proposed Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence will carry the smallest radar instrument ever flown…
Air-breathing engine precooler achieves record-breaking Mach 5 performance
UK company Reaction Engines has tested its innovative precooler at airflow temperature conditions equivalent to Mach…
Automating collision avoidance
ESA is preparing to use machine learning to protect satellites from the very real and growing…
From ‘cavewalking’ to spacewalking
Image: It might not be obvious, but there are many similarities between working deep underground and…
D28 iceberg takes a turn
Image: Earlier this month, the D28 iceberg was spotted breaking off from the Amery Ice Shelf…
New era of locally-sourced resources in space
This month space experts from all over the world convened in Luxembourg for the first Space…