News and Events
-
Monitoring coastal changes in Greece
Hundreds of satellite images spanning over 25 years have been compiled to show the evolution of Greece’s ever-changing coastlines.
News ObservationMay 18, 2021 -
Name ESA’s new mission!
ESA needs you. We need a name for our new spacecraft. Its mission? To spot potentially hazardous solar storms before they reach Earth.
News SciencesMay 17, 2021 -
Glacier melting: untangling local from global
An international team led by the LEGOS space geophysics and oceanography research laboratory has measured the evolution of all the world’s glaciers over 20 years. On average, they...
News ObservationMay 12, 2021 -
Webb’s golden mirror wings open one last time on...
As part of the international James Webb Space Telescope’s final tests, the 6.5 meter (21 feet 4 inch) mirror was commanded to fully expand and lock itself into place, just like it...
News SciencesMay 12, 2021 -
LA FRANCE PRESENTE AUX COTES DU JAPON DANS LES...
SciencesMay 11, 2021 -
MARS 2020 MISSION - FRENCH SUPERCAM INSTRUMENT...
SciencesMay 7, 2021 -
Masked campaign
Researchers take a group photo in front of the Air Zero G aircraft to mark the end of the 75th ESA parabolic flight campaign. The campaign was the third to take place under Covid-...
News SciencesMay 6, 2021 -
3D printing could be used in search for black...
An X-ray telescope designed to search for supermassive black holes could be built using a novel 3D-printing technique called plasma metal deposition.
News SciencesMay 5, 2021 -
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to Begin New...
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has a new mission. Having proven that powered, controlled flight is possible on the Red Planet, the Ingenuity experiment will soon embark on a new...
News SciencesApril 30, 2021 -
VEGA COMPLETES 18TH SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT ORBITS...
ArianeApril 29, 2021 -
Defence: the European strategy against spatial...
Space debris forces ground crews to conduct avoidance manoeuvres: in 2020, Europeans had to perform 31 such manoeuvres. To address this problem, Europe will launch the European...
News SciencesApril 27, 2021 -
JUICE Jupiter probe’s first taste of space
JUICE mission led by the European Space Agency (ESA), has left Airbus’ satellite integration centre in Friedrichshafen (Germany) and is now on its way to the Large Space Simulator...
News SciencesApril 27, 2021 -
18TH VEGA MISSION TO ORBIT PLEIADES NEO 3,...
ArianeApril 27, 2021 -
‘Campfires’ offer clue to solar heating mystery
Computer simulations show that the miniature solar flares nicknamed ‘campfires’, discovered last year by ESA’s Solar Orbiter, are likely driven by a process that may contribute...
News SciencesApril 27, 2021 -
FRANCE’S ESA ASTRONAUT THOMAS PESQUET EN ROUTE TO...
ProximaApril 23, 2021 -
Mars Helicopter: Second flight successful!
Nasa's Ingenuity helicopter successfully flew into the Martian skies for the second time, higher and longer. This second flight lasted 51.9 seconds against 39.1 seconds for...
News SciencesApril 22, 2021 -
NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover Extracts First...
The growing list of “firsts” for Perseverance, NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the Martian surface, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich...
News SciencesApril 21, 2021 -
ESA ALPHA MISSION - WATCH THOMAS PESQUET’S LAUNCH...
ProximaApril 19, 2021