
Watch media briefing with ESA Director General Jan Woerner on Friday 15 December, from ESA headquarters. Streaming starts at 09:00 CET
Category: News
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DG media briefing
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Testing LISA Pathfinder

While the spacecraft is en route to its operational orbit, scientists and engineers are checking that everything on LISA Pathfinder is working well. Watch how they trained for that -
Launch tower

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Inside a rocket launch tower in Sweden -
Dark pools on Titan

Space Science Image of the Week: Cassini–Huygens has discovered much about Saturn’s moon Titan, including pools of liquid methane and ethane on its surface -
The future of 3D printing

Watch materials technology specialist Tommaso Ghidini’s talk from the inaugural TEDxESA event -
Exit Envisat

Technology image of the week: dismantling a replica of Europe’s largest environmental satellite -
Northern lights

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Aurora borealis seen during recent suborbital launch -
Tim Peake set for spacewalk

ESA astronaut Tim Peake and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra will exit the International Space Station next week to repair a power unit on the outside.
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Schiaparelli emerges

Space Science Image of the Week: The ExoMars Schiaparelli module is unpacked in a cleanroom in Baikonur, to be prepared for launch in March -
Orion spacecraft

Read about ESA’s service module that will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft to the Moon and beyond


