Category: News

Rosetta tells us what she’s learned in her first year living with a comet

Space Science Image of the Week: These striking images of Venus’ dynamic south pole were recorded by ESA’s Venus Express during its eight years orbiting the planet

Europe’s fifth and sixth Galileo satellites – subject to complex salvage manoeuvres following their launch last year into incorrect orbits – will help to perform an ambitious year-long test of Einstein’s most famous theory.

Our week through the lens:
2-6 November 2015

Carrying a suite of state-of-the-art instruments to measure Earth’s oceans, land and ice, Sentinel-3A will soon be shipped to the Plesetsk launch site in Russia

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2A image of Cairo, Egypt, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

ESA’s Mars Express has shed new light on the Red Planet’s rare ultraviolet aurora by combining for the first time remote observations with in situ measurements of electrons hitting the atmosphere.

Technology image of the week: Remotely-operated testing of a rover’s arrival on Mars – including video highlights

Working with scientists in 14 countries across Europe, ESA is developing a warning network that will help protect us from the effects of our Sun’s activity.

ESA’s Sentinel-3 Project Manager Bruno Berruti and Thales Alenia’s Project Manager Yvan Baillion join the show to tell us more about the Sentinel-3A satellite and its mission

CubeSat concepts under study to accompany ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission into deep space

Space Science Image of the Week: Cassini captured this view of Saturn’s moon Enceladus en route to its deepest-ever dive through the moon’s icy geysers

The next Galileo launch campaign has begun with the arrival of the latest pair of navigation satellites at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.