Tag: ESA

Imagine beaming a light across millions of kilometres of empty space, all the way back to Earth. ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission is intended to do just that: demonstrate laser communications across an unprecedented void.

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: Nalla, a female peregrine falcon, persuades other birds to nest away from our beautiful deep-space tracking dish

Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s BepiColombo, a mission to explore planet Mercury, seen in a different light

Our week through the lens:
5-9 October 2015

Satcoms are enabling smaller football clubs in Italy to broadcast their matches in high quality from 60 stadiums, via the Internet.

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-1A image of the Azore Islands in Portugal, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

How astronauts adapt to the stresses of living in space is helping researchers to pinpoint the causes of common disorders on Earth.

From the brain’s point of view, living in space is very stressful. The signals from an astronaut’s body in space go haywire as they float in weightlessness. The inner ear reports that it is falling, but the eyes show that nothing is moving.

Join us Friday, 9 October, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features a Sentinel-1A image of the Azore Islands in Portugal

Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: NASA astronaut Terry Virst demonstrates how he took ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti’s picture in space

Technology image of the week: practical testing of the navigation camera planned to guide ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission around its double-asteroid target

Space Invader art has arrived at ESA’s Earth observation centre in Italy

Snapshots from the Sunday 4 October 2015 Open Day at ESA’s technical heart, the most popular one yet

Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s SMART-1 captures Moon’s pockmarked pole with stunning clarity