Flying through the biggest solar...
No communication or navigation, faulty electronics and collision risk. At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, teams faced a scenario unlike any before: a solar storm of extreme magnitude. ...
Gravity assists: trading energy with...
Is there life on Terran V? Join the adventure to the fictional planet and find out what it takes to reach the farthest frontiers of deep space.This video uses a fictional spacecraft and a fictional ...
ESA and Poland celebrate Ignis
The week began on 6 October in Toruń, the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus. Nearly 400 schoolchildren filled the city's planetarium to meet Sławosz and hear about his time in orbit. The setting ...
Swarm reveals growing weak spot in...
Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth's magnetic field over the South ...
Earth from Space: Kilauea lava lake,...
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures an active lava lake on the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution.Located ...
Critical UK satellites to be defended...
British businesses, emergency services and more will be protected from drastic disruption by new sensors that identify laser threats from adversaries to military and civilian satellites in space. ...
Earth from Space: Cyclone Errol
This wide view of Copernicus Sentinel-3 shows Cyclone Errol heading towards the coast of Western Australia.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution.Errol was a powerful tropical cyclone, ...
Rehearsing for Sentinel-6Bs early...
Last month, mission controllers at ESA's mission control centre started a major simulations exercise to ensure that the next Copernicus Sentinel Earth Observation mission, Sentinel-6B, safely ...
Sentinel-1D preparations underway in...
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is about to get its fourth satellite. Copernicus Sentinel-1D has now undergone the checks and functional tests prior to its integration with Ariane 6, ready for ...
Heras first year in space
What a difference a year makes! Today Hera's asteroid mission for planetary defence is cruising through deep space on the far side of the Sun, headed to its final destination: the Didymos binary ...
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