Combing through 20 years of images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, scientists have tracked 1039 tornado-like whirlwinds to reveal how dust is lifted into the air…
What a difference a year makes! Today Hera’s asteroid mission for planetary defence is cruising through deep space on the far side of the Sun, headed to its final destination: the Didymos…
EUMETSAT has released the first Earth images from its METimage instrument on board the recently launched Metop Second Generation A1 (Metop-SGA1) satellite, with these early teasers showcasing the exquisite detail,…
Thales Alenia Space inaugurates state-of-the-art Space Smart Factory One of Europe’s smartest, digital and reconfigurable manufacturing facilities, located in Rome, Italy · This achievement was made possible by significant funding from…
Septentrio and Xona sign MOU to Accelerate Adoption of Next-Era Navigation Technology Leuven, Belgium, and Burlingame, California – October 7, 2025 – Septentrio, part of Hexagon, a leader in high-precision GNSS¹ technology,…
Satellite navigation is essential to everything from tracking your morning jog to landing air ambulances. But as reliance on satellite navigation grows, so do the risks associated with its interruption,…
ESA’s fourth Deep Space Antenna unveiled in New Norcia, Western Australia New Norcia, Australia, October 6, 2025 – The European Deep Space Antenna Alliance (EDSA²) formed by Thales Alenia Space,…
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures an active lava lake on the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10…
Galileo relies on ground-based uplink stations (ULS) to maintain accurate positioning for users worldwide. These stations transmit essential data to the satellites, including the information required to compute the satellites’…
October 2025 Key Facts: Six years ago, fewer than 2,000 satellites were in service. +23% increase in acGve satellites over the past 12 months. Starlink’s 8,366 satellites (Elon Musk) account…
October 2, 2025. Recently, the European Space Agency (ESA) has completed its deep-space optical communications campaign and sent laser signals to NASA’s Psyche spacecraft more than 300 million kilometers from Earth….
Thales Alenia Space and ESA sign contract for SAGA mission to demonstrate Europe’s first Quantum Key Distribution governmental service Thales Alenia Space will develop Europe’s first space-based system for generating…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a €50 million contract with aerospace company Thales Alenia Space to begin the preliminary design phase of the Security And cryptoGrAphic (SAGA) mission….
The third day of the 76th International Astronautical Congress was again full of interactions between the European Space Agency and international partners. New areas of cooperation between ESA and South…
– Boeing 702MP+ platform coupled with a Viasat payload designed to add more than 1Tbps capacity to satellite operator’s global network – Spacecraft features electric propulsion, structural enhancements, as well…