Life beyond the leak for ESA?s CryoSat

2023-11-22, 19:22 ESA

On 21 November 2023, ESA’s CryoSat satellite swapped to its back-up propulsion system after a fuel leak threatened to bring the mission to an end in 2025. The swap has the potential to extend the ...

Life beyond the leak for ESA?s CryoSat

2023-11-22, 16:21 ESA

On 21 November 2023, ESA?s CryoSat satellite swapped to its back-up propulsion system after a fuel leak threatened to bring the mission to an end in 2025.The swap has the potential to extend the life ...

Cairt and Wivern Earth Explorer...

2023-11-21, 15:30 ESA

ESA has reached a significant milestone in its commitment towards a deeper understanding of Earth's dynamic processes and addressing pressing environmental challenges with the selection of two new ...

Arctic Weather Satellite in shape

2023-11-20, 18:19 ESA

Embracing the New Space approach, it has taken just 36 months to develop and build ESA?s Arctic Weather Satellite. Now complete, this remarkable microsatellite has been shipped from OHB in Sweden to ...

Juice manouevre lines it up for 2024...

2023-11-17, 21:05 ESA

On 17 November 2023, ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) fired its main engine, burning 10% of the mission's entire fuel supply in just 43 minutes.Why?The engine burn was part of a two-part ...

Juice burns hard towards first-ever...

2023-11-17, 20:50 ESA

ESA?s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) launched from Europe?s spaceport in French Guiana on 14 April 2023.It?s on a mission to make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three ...

Earth from Space: North Channel

2023-11-17, 13:18 ESA

The North Channel, between Northern Ireland and Scotland, is featured in this false-colour radar image from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or ...

Spacecraft fall silent as Mars...

2023-11-17, 10:18 ESA

The space between Earth and Mars is usually buzzing with science data, telemetry and commands racing to and from almost a dozen missions at the Red Planet. But for roughly one and a half days this ...

Italy's Mount Etna spews lava

2023-11-15, 16:00 ESA

One of the world?s most active volcanoes, Mount Etna, erupted on Sunday ? spewing lava and clouds of ash high over the Mediterranean island of Sicily. This image, captured on 13 November by the ...

MetOp Second Generation weather...

2023-11-15, 12:29 ESA

Having satellites in different types of orbit is essential to delivering data to forecast the weather accurately. With the first Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite safely in geostationary ...