The fourth in ESA's series of five Automated Transfer Vehicles was launched on June 5th, 2013…
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Exploring new frontiers of frequency
Telecommunications is a booming business. As mobile phones become increasingly ubiquitous, broadband Internet serves everything from…
Earth from Space: Special edition
Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition,…
Gaia sunshade deployment
Animation showing the deployment of Gaia’s sunshade. During launch, the 10 m-wide sunshield is stowed against…
Space droids calling
Secondary-school students can play the ultimate robot game: the annual Zero Robotics tournament turns the International…
Weightless weak equivalence principle
During ten seconds of weightlessness Brynle Barrett from the Laboratory of Photonics, Numerical Sciences and Nanosciences…
M101
The face-on spiral galaxy M101, or the Pinwheel Galaxy, is seen at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths…
A very bright contortionist
The contorted object captured by Hubble in this picture is IRAS 22491-1808, also known as the…
Sterex images of ATV-4 launch
ESA's ATV-4 launch images taken by the Sterex experiment. These images provide a stunning vision of the…
Sterex images of ATV-4 launch: ATV-4 Release sequence
ATV-4 release sequence taken from ESA's ATV-4 launch recorded with the Sterex experiment. These images provide…