Tag: ESA

One year since Philae made its historic landing on a comet, mission teams remain hopeful for renewed contact with the lander, while also looking ahead to next year’s grand finale: making a controlled impact of the Rosetta orbiter on the comet.

Two experts join the show to tell us more about mapping urban areas from space

Technology image of the week: ESA’s planet-spotting Cheops satellite being readied for acoustic testing

An Ariane 5 has delivered two telecom satellites, Arabsat-6B and GSAT-15, into their planned orbits. 

On 11 November 2015 we are launching TEDxESA. Watch the livestream from 17:00 CET

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: After more than 270 days of Antarctic isolation, the first plane touches down at Europe’s Concordia research station

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