Tag: ESA

Our week through the lens:
30 November – 4 December 2015

Get ready, set, go! As the thousands of runners start the London Marathon in April, ESA astronaut Tim Peake will run the full 42 km distance on a treadmill aboard the International Space Station.

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-1A mosaic of the Netherlands, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

The story so far of the second Copernicus satellite and what it will do next

ESA and the Science Museum in London are working with four leading fashion schools around Europe to design clothes for the space age with their ‘Couture in Orbit’ project. 

Press briefing replay: mission experts describe how LISA Pathfinder will test-drive the technologies needed to detect gravitational waves from space

ESA’s LISA Pathfinder lifted off earlier today on a Vega rocket from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on its way to demonstrate technology for observing gravitational waves from space.

Watch LISA Pathfinder launch into low-Earth orbit, with commentary from experts at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou

Watch LISA Pathfinder launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou

An ESA deep-space ground station will lend a helping ear as Japan’s Hayabusa-2 asteroid mission visits Earth on Thursday.

LISA Pathfinder lifted off from Kourou on a Vega rocket at 04:04 GMT and is on its way into low-Earth orbit

ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed three massive filaments of hot gas flowing towards a cluster of galaxies, uncovering a portion of the cosmic skeleton that pervades the entire Universe.

Follow the launch of our LISA Pathfinder mission on 3 December. Coverage from Kourou starts 03:44 GMT; a press briefing from ESA’s space operations centre starts at 05:30 GMT