
Watch the return of ESA astronaut Tim Peake, NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and Soyuz spacecraft commander Yuri Malenchenko on Saturday.
Category: News
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Live: Tim returns to Earth
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Over the rainbow

Operations image of the week: ESA’s deep-space tracking station in Argentina framed by a rainbow and highlighted by the Sun -
ExoMars sets sights on the Red Planet

ExoMars captured its first images of Mars this week as part of its preparations for arriving at the Red Planet in October.
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A little help from friends

ESA’s first Mars orbiter will provide an important helping hand when the second arrives at the Red Planet in October.
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How the Sun was born

Space science image of the week: A young star in the final stages of birth offers a glimpse at the way our Sun formed 4.6 billion years ago -
Cold gas in deep space

Operations image of the week: Mission controllers use these cold-gas thrusters to keep LISA Pathfinder where it needs to be -
Chips with everything

Technology image of the week: these varied integrated circuits, etched onto a single piece of silicon, endow Europe’s space missions with intelligence -
Step to the stars

Human spaceflight and robotic operations image of the week: Aurora and stars over Concordia research station in Antarctica -
Paving the way

Media briefing replay: LISA Pathfinder scientists present first results on the key technologies needed to observe gravitational waves from space



