Focus on Euclid with Jean-Charles Cuillandre: “What we see in the first Euclid images is a promise of what will come in the future.” Jean-Charles Cuillandre, astronomer at CEA Paris-Saclay,…
ESA’s new Ariane 6 rocket passed a major full-scale rehearsal today in preparation for its first flight, when teams on the ground went through a complete launch countdown followed by…
Madrid, November 21, 2023 – Thales Alenia Space (joint venture between Thales, 67%, and Leonardo, 33%) has signed a contract with TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute (TÜBİTAK UZAY) to provide…
The Council today approved conclusions on the first EU Space Strategy for Security and Defence. The Council recalled the EU’s longstanding commitment to international law and to the values and…
MoU between ESA, Airbus and Voyager Space outlines collaboration on post-International Space Station infrastructure and missions Seville, 09 November 2023 – The European Space Agency (ESA), Airbus Defence and Space, and…
Thales Alenia Space unveils project to develop Space Smart Factory, one of the largest facilities of its kind in Europe At the Tecnopolo Tiburtino hub in Rome, Thales Alenia Space’s…
Today ESA’s Euclid space mission will release its first full-colour images of the cosmos.Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical images across such a large…
On Tuesday 24th, October 2023, in Darmstadt, Germany, Lionel SUCHET, Chief Operating Officer (CNES), and Phil EVANS, Director General (EUMETSAT) celebrated the adhesion of the European operational satellite agency for…
Blockchain solution to counter threat of faking satellite imagery with artificial intelligence Toulouse, October 18 2023 – Startup 3IPK and Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and…
A global team of scientists have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the largest ever seismic event recorded on Mars. The study, led…
Governments and international disaster response teams have long relied on satellites to assess the impacts of disasters such as earthquakes and hurricanes. Now ESA has partnered with ICEYE, a Finnish…
ERA General Assembly, Innsbruck, Austria, 11 October 2023 – Embraer and Luxair, flag carrier of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, have signed a firm order for four E195-E2; the most efficient…
Welcome to this edition of ESA Impact, an interactive publication covering stories and images from the third quarter of 2023. In this edition, the spotlight is on the launch of…
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen will become the commander of the International Space Station, the sixth European to take the role. Tune in to ESA WebTV channel 2 tomorrow, 26 September at 15:40…
The successful last Ariane 6 launch system combined tests HFT-3, at the German Aerospace Center in Lampoldshausen; and CTLO1-C, at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, show the strength of European…