ESAs Gaia spacecraft leaves for...
From 25 July 2014 to 15 January 2025, the Gaia space observatory performed high-precision measurements of nearly two billion stars from its Lissajous orbit around the L2 Lagrange point, 1.5 million ...
Hera asteroid mission tested...
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 ...
Media invitation: meet the new MetOp...
25 March 2025Journalists are invited to an exclusive behind-the-scenes opportunity on 8 April to see two exciting new missions up close in the cleanroom at Airbus' facilities in Toulouse, France. ...
Earth from Space: Land of giants
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click ...
Biomass out of the box
Following its arrival at Pariacabo harbour in Kourou, French Guiana, ESA's Biomass satellite has been rolled out of its shipment container, which kept it protected throughout its two-week voyage from ...
Sped-up simulation of Heras Mars flyby
On 12 March 2025 ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defence performs a flyby of Mars. The gravity of the red planet shifts the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, ...
Three MetOp-SG-B weather siblings
While ESA, Eumetsat, space industry partners and the meteorological community gear up for the launch of the first MetOp Second Generation A satellite in August 2025, all three B-type satellites are ...
Watch live: Images from Heras Mars flyby
Join us live for a star-studded event this Thursday, as scientists working on ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence release the mission's first scientific observations beyond the Earth-Moon ...
Hera: Target Deimos
ESA's Hera's spacecraft's 12 March 2025 flyby of Mars brings it just 300 km from Deimos, the smaller and further distant of the planet's two moons. Deimos orbits 20 068 km away from the surface of ...
Hera Mars flyby
On 12 March 2025 ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence performs a flyby of Mars. Mars's gravity will shift the spacecraft's trajectory towards the Didymos binary asteroid system, shortening its ...
