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ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission has demonstrated the technology needed to build a space-based gravitational wave observatory.

“The Colours of Cooperation” is the theme of Ecsite 2016, taking place 7-11 June in Graz, Austria

Space Science Image of the Week: Planck’s view of a giant loop of microwaves that defies easy explanation

The ingenuity of four space engineers has created a zero-emission air-conditioning system that doesn’t pollute our atmosphere when we turn it on.

Dutch company Orbital Eye has developed a service that uses satellites to monitor gas and oil pipelines. A major African pipeline operator has already signed up for the service.

Our week through the lens:
30 May-3 June 2016

Take a narrated tour of the International Space Station in six languages in this video – also available in 3D

First results from ESA’s mission to demonstrate gravitational-wave technology will be presented on Tuesday, 7 June. Watch livestream from 09:30 GMT and join a Reddit AMA session at 12:00 GMT

Technology image of the week: The Large European Acoustic Facility looks like a giant sound speaker, and that’s precisely what it is

ESA today unveiled the first Sentinel-1 satellite images sent via the European Data Relay System’s world-leading laser technology in high orbit

For a low-lying, densely populated country like the Netherlands, monitoring subsidence is critical. Until recently, tiny displacements in the ground beneath our feet couldn’t be mapped nationally but, thanks to the Sentinel-1 mission, this is now possible.

The Sentinel-2 satellite recently captured this image of wildfires in Canada’s Alberta province

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: The International Space Station and planet Mercury pass in front of the Sun