Flickering flame: spooky spirits or serious science?
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Published: October 31, 2025 08:54
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ESA’s first stand-alone deep-space CubeSat Henon takes shape
Published: October 29, 2025 10:00
The European Space Agency’s upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, communicate with Earth and manoeuvre to its final destination without relying on a bigger spacecraft. Once in its orbit around the…
Ensuring the accuracy of ESA’s FORUM climate mission
Published: October 9, 2025 09:15
The European Space Agency’s upcoming FORUM mission is set to provide unique insights into Earth’s radiation budget, filling in a missing piece in the climate puzzle. The mission’s spectrometer will be the first space-based instrument to measure Earth’s…
Hera’s first year in space
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/10/Hera_s_first_year_in_space
Published: October 7, 2025 14:00
Video: 00:07:47 What a difference a year makes! Today Hera’s asteroid mission for planetary defence is cruising through deep space on the far side of the Sun, headed to its final destination: the Didymos binary asteroid system. But a year ago, on 7…
Large Space Simulator gets a digital twin
Published: October 6, 2025 14:13
The Large Space Simulator, Europe’s largest vacuum chamber, routinely reproduces space conditions on Earth to test spacecraft before they fly into orbit. The facility is complex, and the current process of training a new operator is lengthy and…
The dynamic drone-rover duo with a special bond
Published: September 24, 2025 08:00
The martian landscape is not the easiest terrain to get around. Some areas are too rocky for a wheeled rover to cross, and elsewhere a lack of distinctive features in the landscape can cause problems for a camera-based navigation system. For a flying…
A cell’s-eye view of altered gravity and ageing
Published: September 16, 2025 08:00
Muscle weakening, bone density loss and an impaired immune system: the systemic health impacts of spaceflight bear many similarities to ageing. Sharon van Rijthoven, a student from Delft University of Technology and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, compared…
Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat
Published: September 11, 2025 12:00
The European Space Agency’s Plato spacecraft has safely arrived at ESTEC, ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands. There, engineers will complete the spacecraft by connecting its solar panels and sunshield, and carry out a series of critical tests to…
ESA wraps up 300-million-kilometre optical communication campaign
Published: August 27, 2025 13:38
Over the summer, the European Space Agency ran an optical communication demonstration campaign using two observatories on Earth and NASA’s Psyche mission. All four optical links were successful.
Four laser links over 300 million kilometres: ESA concludes daring optical communication campaign
Published: August 26, 2025 13:38
Over the summer, the European Space Agency ran an optical communication demonstration campaign using two observatories on Earth and NASA’s Psyche mission. All four optical links were successful.
Europe’s new carbon-monitoring mission launches on Vega-C
Published: July 28, 2025 13:00
The MicroCarb mission, led by the French space agency CNES, will monitor carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to help identify the world’s main sources and sinks of this important greenhouse gas. Launched on 25 July on a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport…
Four-legged robot’s first encounter with microgravity
Published: July 17, 2025 12:00
For the exploration of planetary bodies with low gravity, such as the Moon or Mars, legged robots have an advantage over traditional rovers. One such robot recently jumped from wall to wall in conditions simulating partial microgravity and free flight at…