ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will return to Earth on 19–20 August, with flightcontrollers guiding the spacecraft first past the Moon and then past Earth itself. This ‘braking’manoeuvre will…
In preparing the European Launcher Challenge, ESA is reaching out to European launch service providers through a Request for Information. The European Launcher Challenge is a unique opportunity to participate…
Dedicated to delivering a wealth of new information on exactly how clouds and aerosols affect Earth’s climate, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has had the chance to show off prior to engineers…
Wednesday, 29 November 2023 As a world leader in Earth observation and space for climate topics, the European Space Agency will showcase programmes, applications and solutions that help to improve…
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…
MANTIS, the first satellite mission to be supported from concept to liftoff by ESA’s Earth Observation InCubed programme, was launched yesterday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. MANTIS carries a…
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…
Friday, 13 October 2023 New research, based largely on information from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and ESA’s CryoSat satellite missions, has revealed alarming findings about the state of Antarctica’s ice shelves:…
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…
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 satnav receiver vans – driving between the busy heart of Rotterdam, quiet countryside, and the Agency’s ESTEC technical centre – have confirmed that Galileo signals now provide a first…
Researchers used an innovative machine learning approach to develop a tiny model capable of running on a satellite’s limited processing power;The trained model successfully detected cloud cover in satellite images…
ESA proposes Marcus Wandt from Sweden to fly on a future Axiom space mission Thursday, 15 June 2023 Media representatives are invited to a press event on Friday 16 June…
ESA welcomed its latest group of astronaut candidates yesterday at its European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, at the start of their one-year basic training to prepare for future space…