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Take part in ESA’s online Global Space Economic Workshop on 3, 9, 16 and 23 July to discover opportunities for industry to work with ESA to fight the COVID-19 crisis. Join the discussion on ESA web TV or ESA Space Economy . To source

A showcase of imagery from the past months for the June Council To source

Week in images: 15-19 June 2020 Discover our week through the lens To source

Commercial flight trials that use satellite-enabled communications to reduce the environmental impact of flying are scheduled to commence once normal traffic levels resume. To source

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Great Rift Valley, Kenya. To source

Video: 00:00:00 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission  takes us over part of the Great Rift Valley, Kenya. See also Great Rift Valley, Kenya  to download the image. To source

Video: 00:03:20 Soon a Vega will launch from Kourou carrying a payload of several satellites. These will be delivered into orbit by a new multi-payload system developed by ESA. Among these small satellites,  E-SAIL. This microsatellite is dedicated to supporting maritime traffic and making seafaring safer. It is part of ESA’s SAT-AIS programme, which aims […]

Press Release N° 10–2020 ESA, NASA and JAXA invite the general public and media representatives to participate in an online media conference on Thursday, 25 June, at 09:00 EDT (15:00 CEST) where they will present a new dashboard that uses Earth observation data to show the impacts of COVID-19. This new platform will combine data, […]

Tune in to ESA Web TV  on Friday 19 June from 02:36 BST / 03:36 CEST to watch the return to flight of Vega on its debut rideshare mission dedicated to light satellites. Vega will lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana carrying 53 satellites on its new dispenser called the Small Spacecraft Mission Service , […]

An observation campaign led by ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory reveals the youngest pulsar ever seen – the remnant of a once-massive star – that is also a ‘magnetar’, sporting a magnetic field some 70 quadrillion times stronger than that of Earth. To source

Video: 00:00:16 Using data from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, a European citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in the satellite data — the 4,000th comet discovery in the spacecraft’s 25-year history. Currently nicknamed SOHO-4000 and pending its official designation from the Minor Planet Center , the comet has a rather small […]

Image: When Vega met satellites To source

European engineers, together with Canada, are working on the technologies needed to find and retrieve samples from Mars, as part of ESA’s plans to send material from the Red Planet to Earth. To source