Tag: ESA

Space. Drop tests for touchdown on Mars (ESA)

The ExoMars team have performed important parachute drop tests as crucial preparation for a safe touchdown on Mars in 2023. The European Rosalind Franklin...

Space. Meteosat Third Generation takes major step towards its first launch (ESA)

After many technical and programmatic challenges, the first satellite of the next generation of the Meteosat family has taken a major step towards its...

Space. Satellite data provide valuable support for IPCC climate report (ESA)

Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest assessment report laying out the accumulating evidence of the climate crisis....

Space. Node 2 | Space Station 360 (in French with English subtitles available) (ESA)

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet takes you on a tour of the International Space Station like no other. Filmed with a 360 camera, the Space...

Europe. ESA pursuing European space summit to discuss new flagship space programs (Space News)

Jeff Foust The head of the European Space Agency says plans are moving forward to host a European space summit early next year to discuss...

Space. Solar Orbiter captures Venus glare (ESA)

On 9 August 2021, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft passed within 7995 km of the surface of planet Venus during a gravity assist flyby. The...

Space. Planet Aqua: Solutions from Space for Clean Water (ESA)

Water is life, on Earth and in space. Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers recounts his experience living in space for 204 days, and his...

A-74 iceberg near collision with Brunt Ice Shelf (ESA)

Iceberg A-74, approximately 1.5 times the size of Greater Paris, calved from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf earlier this year. Over the last six months, it...

Hearth from Space – Wildfires ravage Greek island of Evia (ESA)

Parts of the Mediterranean and central Europe have experienced extreme temperatures this summer, with wildfires causing devastation in both Turkey and Greece. The blaze...

Space – Flying by Venus (ESA)

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach...

Space – Crater trio (ESA)

ESA writes: This image was taken on 22 March 2021 in the Lunae Planum region of Mars by the CaSSIS camera on the...

Satellites/Forests – Satellites reveal how forests increase cloud and cool climate (ESA)

ESA writes: Forests are not only key to moderating our climate by sequestering atmospheric carbon, but they also create a cooling effect by increasing...

Space – Juice takes the heat (ESA)

ESA writes: ESA's Jupiter Icy moons Explorer, Juice, has successfully completed rigorous thermal tests simulating the extreme coldness of space and the warmth of...

Space – Jupiter mission passes space vacuum test (ESA)

ESA writes: ESA’s Juice mission to Jupiter has successfully endured a month of space-like conditions inside the Large Space Simulator, the largest vacuum chamber in Europe. go...

Space – Rocket tanks of carbon fibre reinforced plastic proven possible (ESA)

ESA writes: Building on earlier studies, MT Aerospace in Germany has demonstrated a novel design of a small scale tank made of a unique...

Space – First test of Europe’s new space brain (ESA)

ESA writes: On 26 June 2021, ESA’s OPS-SAT space lab became the first spacecraft to be monitored and controlled using the EGS-CC – proving that this...