ESA Director General reaction to a reduced budget proposal for NASA (www.esa.int)
ESA welcomes inauguration of the African Space Agency (www.esa.int)
Hubble celebrates 35th year in orbit (www.esa.int)
Martian rock on the move (www.esa.int)
New ESA invention tested in a chamber of no echoes (www.esa.int)
ESA Space Environment Report 2025 (www.esa.int)
Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars (www.esa.int)
As ESA’s Hera planetary defence mission flew past planet Mars it autonomously locked onto dozens of impact craters and other prominent surface features to track them over time, in a full-scale test of the self-driving technology that the spacecraft will employ to navigate around its target asteroids.
Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end (www.esa.int)
Euclid opens data treasure trove, offers glimpse of deep fields (www.esa.int)
ESA Seeks Volunteers for 10-Day Waterbed Spaceflight Study (www.esa.int)
When two become one: engineers get Smile ready for launch (www.esa.int)
First CubeSat joins ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis (www.esa.int)
ESA and Red Cross partnership brings space technology to disaster management (www.esa.int)
Two atmospheric missions on one satellite (www.esa.int)
Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus (www.esa.int)
Euclid discovers a stunning Einstein ring (www.esa.int)
Euclid discovers a stunning Einstein ring (www.esa.int)
Argonaut: a first European lunar lander (www.esa.int)
ESA and European Commission to build quantum-secure space communications network (www.esa.int)
Planet hunter Plato to fly on Ariane 6 (www.esa.int)
Seed-sized space chip (www.esa.int)
Last starlight for ground-breaking Gaia (www.esa.int)
Launched on 19 December 2013, Gaia’s fuel tank is now approaching empty – it uses about a dozen grams of cold gas per day to keep it spinning with pinpoint precision. But this is far from the end of the mission.
Proba-3 becomes two: satellites separated (www.esa.int)
Last night a crucial step in the European Space Agency’s eclipse-making Proba-3 mission was completed: the two spacecraft, flying jointly since launch, have successfully separated.
XMM-Newton catches giant black hole’s X-ray oscillations (www.esa.int)
