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ESA deploys ‘big iron’ to communicate with its deep-space missions: three 35 m-diameter dishes employing some of the world’s most advanced tracking technology. And it’s about to get a boost.
ESA’s three Deep Space Antenna stations at New Norcia, Australia, Cebreros, Spain and Malargüe, Argentina, beam commands and receive data from spacecraft voyaging hundreds of millions of kilometres into our Solar System.
Technology image of week: BepiColombo mission modules set be on show during the ESTEC Open Day
We received a Silver Play Button to mark 100 000 subscribers on our YouTube channel. Of course we needed to make sure it was fit for space…
Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Andreas Mogensen returns to Earth after completing his iriss mission
ESA invites university students around the world to compete in designing a mission scenario for the next step in space exploration: a human–robotic partnership for exploring the Moon
Will CarbonSat or FLEX be ESA’s next Earth Explorer mission? Follow discussions at the User Consultation Meeting on 15–16 September
Space science image of the week: ESA’s Sun-watching Proba-2 satellite experienced three partial solar eclipses yesterday
Replay of Soyuz spaceraft landing in the Kazakh steppe after 10 days in space for ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Soyuz spacecraft commander Gennady Padalka and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov landed this morning at 00:51 GMT (02:51 CEST 12 September) in the steppe of Kazakhstan, marking the end of their missions to the International Space Station.
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is proving to be an expert space driver after commanding two rovers from space this week. As part of ESA’s Meteron project, Andreas drove a second, car-sized rover from the International Space Station to repair a mockup lunar base in the Netherlands.
The Hubble Space Telescope has found a giant galaxy cluster with a huge galaxy at its core that is bursting with new stars
