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  • Burning like the Sun

    Engineers building parts of a new type of power plant for generating green energy with nuclear fusion are using their expertise from building rockets like Europe’s Ariane 5 to create the super-strong structures to cope with conditions similar to those inside the Sun.

  • Inspiring the future


    ESRIN’s Open Days 2016 gave 2000 schoolchildren an opportunity to learn more about ESA’s Centre for Earth Observation

  • Soft docking


    Human spaceflight and robotic operations image of the week: ESA’s new docking ring

  • Signal received


    Relive key moments as ExoMars 2016 separates from the Breeze upper stage and sends its first signals back to Earth

  • ExoMars on its way to solve the Red Planet’s mysteries

    The first of two joint ESA-Roscosmos missions to Mars has begun a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, where it will address unsolved mysteries of the planet’s atmosphere that could indicate present-day geological – or even biological – activity.

  • Giotto mission at 30


    Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s Giotto made its historic flyby of Comet Halley 30 years ago

  • Launch event replay


    Watch ExoMars 2016 lift off into space, with launch build-up and commentary from mission experts

  • Liftoff replay


    Watch ExoMars 2016 liftoff from Baikonur, Kazakhstan on a Proton rocket

  • Mission control ready for Mars launch

    ESA’s mission control conducted the dress rehearsal for the ExoMars launch today, an important final step in preparing the ground teams and systems for the 14 March departure to the Red Planet.

  • Rocket rollout


    Video showing the rocket carrying the ExoMars 2016 spacecraft being rolled out to the launch pad

  • Week In Images


    Our week through the lens:
    7-11 March 2016

  • Giotto 30


    Thirty years ago, Giotto met Comet Halley, inspiring an art competition for children

  • ExoMars launch updates

    Updates from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as we count down to the launch of ExoMars 2016 on 14 March.