3D printing, up, up & away

Technology image of the week: ESA’s award-winning aerospace-quality-plastic 3D printer, designed for use in weightless space

MELT 3D printer

Europe’s first 3D printer designed for use in weightlessness, printing aerospace-quality plastics, has won the prestigious…

Expedition 57 crew return to Baikonur after an aborted launch

Spaceflight was a challenge in 1961 when Yuri Gagarin became the first human to successfully and…

Planet Mercury

Among the four inner Solar System planets, Mercury is the smallest and very dense, its vast…

Planet Mercury

Among the four inner Solar System planets, Mercury is the smallest and very dense, its vast…

Key components of tree-counting Biomass radar cleared for space

How many trees are there on Earth? ESA’s Biomass mission will perform a global forest survey,…

Key components of tree-counting Biomass radar cleared for space

How many trees are there on Earth? ESA’s Biomass mission will perform a global forest survey,…

BepiColombo monitoring camera test image

An unusual view of part of the BepiColombo spacecraft stack, taken by one of the monitoring…

BepiColombo monitoring camera test image

An unusual view of part of the BepiColombo spacecraft stack, taken by one of the monitoring…

Fairing closure

The fairing of the Ariane 5 launcher is lowered over the BepiColombo spacecraft stack.