How to cook a spacecraft

The faint aroma of hot metal filled the surrounding cleanroom as the hatch to ESA’s newest…

Chris Hadfield with Biolab

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield conducting routine maintenance on Biolab in Europe’s Columbus laboratory on…

Lidia Icardi: Electrical power systems engineer

Academic background: Lidia Icardi works on the Solar Orbiter project and talks about her tasks as…

Anne Pacros: Payload system engineer

Academic background series: Anne Pacros is a payload system engineer on the Solar Orbiter mission and…

Age-Raymond Riise: Ground Station Engineer

Academic background: Age-Raymond Riise is an electrical engineer and keeps the ESA tracking station network going.

Tracking trains with satellite precision

Taking a cue from how ESA controls satellites, Spanish railways now have their own high-tech upgrade…

Planetary nebula ESO 456-67

Planetary nebula ESO 456-67 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula is the product…

Earth from Space: Cotmeana

Earth from Space is presented by Kelsea Brennan-Wessels from the ESA Web-TV virtual studios. Southern central…

Sea-surface salinity and currents

Salinity data from SMOS show that warm, salty water being carried north by the Gulf Stream…

ESA Euronews: Gravity’s grip on Earth

Gravity is one of the fundamental forces of nature, its invisible grip governing our planet -…