Archive | ESA

How do you build a spaceship? It’s not easy, because space is risky – but potential payoffs are vast. ESA’s track record allows us to manage that risk, balancing it with chances for rich rewards To source

ESA’s Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, was recently declared ready to fly after completing a series of final spacecraft tests. To source

New Space, quest for innovation and integrated applications, new business models, global challenges: this is the scenario that the ESA Education programme is now even more equipped to address with the inauguration of Galaxia, the new permanent ESA training and learning facility in Belgium. To source

Our week through the lens: 25 – 29 March 2019 To source

Discover ESA is a colourful journey through ESA’s activities and space missions. The brochure, which is available in six languages, includes an attractive space poster To source

Earth observation image of the week: Copernicus Sentinel-1 takes us over the narrow strait that separates Europe and Asia To source

In this edition, we take a look at the narrow strait that connects eastern Europe to western Asia: the Bosphorus in northwest Turkey To source

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Technology image of the week: ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite images the Galápagos island chain, inspiration for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution To source

While people in Mozambique face the mammoth task of cleaning up after Cyclone Idai, the blue-purple in this image shows where floodwater is retreating To source

Human and robotic exploration image of the week: new bedrest study tests impact of artificial gravity To source

In the absolute darkness of caves, rare creatures have returned to living in water to survive. Astronauts looking for life in the underworld during the CAVES training courses discovered a new species of crustaceans that have completed an evolutionary full circle – from water to land, and back to water again.  To source