ESA awards Deimos €17 Million Contract for Pioneering Space Sustainability Mission “DRACO” World’s first demonstration of a controlled satellite break-up processMadrid, 24th September 2024 – The European Space Agency (ESA)…
Plans include continued evolution of STM technologies and servicesParis, France, and Coimbra, Portugal, 16 September 2024 – The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Neuraspace, a European-born global leader in…
The first satellite in ESA’s Cluster quartet safely came back down to Earth last night in a world-first ‘targeted reentry’, marking a brilliant end to this remarkable mission. The spacecraft,…
ESA delivers again: ESM-3 departs for US to power Artemis III ESA’s third European Service Module (ESM-3), for NASA’s Artemis III mission, has departed from the Airbus facility in Bremen,…
ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite and Φsat-2 satellite lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket via Exolaunch from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA, at 20:56 CEST (11:56…
30 years ago, on 16 July 1994, astronomers watched in awe as the first of many pieces of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet slammed into Jupiter with incredible force. The event…
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:…