Category: News

The SpaceX Dragon CRS-9 cargo vessel seen chasing the International Space Station from Leiden, The Netherlands, just a few hours before this morning’s berthing.

ESA’s new Advanced Manufacturing Lab will probe the application of 3D printing and other advanced manufacturing techniques for future space missions

Radiation is an invisible hazard of spaceflight, but a new monitoring system for ESA astronauts gives a realtime snapshot of their exposure. The results will guide researchers preparing for deep-space missions to come.

ESA’s Venus Express reveals details on Venus’ surface by studying patterns of clouds in its thick atmosphere

Space Science Image of the Week: Ancient areas of Mars are peppered with impact craters similar to this unnamed pit in Noachis Terra, viewed by ESA’s Mars Express

While most of us may be looking forward to spending some time in the sunshine this summer, the Sentinel-2B satellite is being subjected to the extreme cold of space to make sure it is fit for life in orbit.

Our week through the lens:
11-15 July 2016

Earth observation image of the week: A Sentinel-2A image of Sundarbans, Bangladesh

ESA astronaut Tim Peake seen arriving back in the UK for the first time after his six-month Principia mission

Getting the bigger picture on the health of our planet drew another step closer today as Europe’s Sentinel-3A satellite was handed over to Eumetsat for operations.

Technology image of the week: ESA’s double-satellite Proba-3 will be going where no Proba minisatellite has gone before

In the most detailed picture to date, information from ESA’s CryoSat satellite reveals how melting ice in Greenland has recently contributed twice as much to sea-level rise as the prior two decades.

The UK’s Farnborough airshow today saw ESA’s commitment to the next step in developing a revolutionary air-breathing rocket engine that could begin test firings in about four years.