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,…
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 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…
Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant…
Scientists digging through data collected by the Cassini spacecraft have found new complex organic molecules spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. This is a clear sign that complex chemical reactions are…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) HydroGNSS mission, which will investigate the Earth’s water cycle, has landed in California and is ready to start preparations for launch. Changes in the global…
Avio reuseable upper stage demonstration mission concept Space transportation is moving towards frequent reusable launchers supporting an industrial ecosystem around Earth. In the coming decades, the European Space Agency (ESA)…
As ESA’s space activities expand in scale and complexity, there is a growing demand for interoperable systems capable of managing information across multiple missions, centres, and partners. Traditional tools, often…