ESA - Operations - Archive

Enabling & Support

Cleaning the dishes

27/11/2019 1209 views 29 likes

An artificial Proba-2 view of the solar north pole

Safety & Security

A decade probing the Sun

04/11/2019 2867 views 63 likes

ESA Main Control Room, Darmstadt

Enabling & Support

European network of operations centres takes shape

25/10/2019 1812 views 22 likes

Gateway and Moon

Science & Exploration

Controlling robots across oceans and space – no magic requi…

02/10/2019 3976 views 82 likes

Plaskett and companion craters - AMIE mosaic

Enabling & Support

Follow live: Magically exploring ‘the Moon’ from afar

24/09/2019 4037 views 69 likes

Asteroid '2019 OK' observed moving against backdrop of stars

Safety & Security

Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for mor…

02/08/2019 18519 views 178 likes

Orbiting lunar Gateway

Enabling & Support

Angelic halo orbit chosen for humankind’s first lunar outpo…

18/07/2019 12376 views 212 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Enabling & Support

Gaia’s biggest operation since launch

15/07/2019 6474 views 140 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

Space agencies come together

14/06/2019 3977 views 89 likes

New team for New Norcia deep space antenna

Enabling & Support

New era for New Norcia deep space antenna

04/06/2019 3159 views 64 likes

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

Enabling & Support

ExoMars orbiter prepares for Rosalind Franklin

30/05/2019 4242 views 101 likes

Earth observation missions

Enabling & Support

Mission control 'saves science'

17/05/2019 3873 views 59 likes

Safety & Security

Recognising sustainable behaviour

06/05/2019 6089 views 79 likes

Pinpointing Gaia from Earth

Science & Exploration

Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps

02/05/2019 4323 views 86 likes

Safety & Security

The day the asteroid might hit

26/04/2019 19801 views 143 likes

Open Space Innovation Platform

Enabling & Support

ESA opening up to new ideas

12/04/2019 6324 views 70 likes

Safety & Security

Rocket break-up provides rare chance to test debris formati…

12/04/2019 7458 views 97 likes

Enabling & Support

Want to SMILE?

1410 views 13 likes

Enabling & Support

OPS-SAT: your flying laboratory

1732 views 24 likes

BepiColombo in cruise configuration

Science & Exploration

BepiColombo is ready for its long cruise

05/04/2019 4877 views 94 likes

Simulating lunar surface operations

Enabling & Support

ESA boosts startup to the Moon

03/04/2019 2883 views 63 likes

Hiber CubeSat testing

Enabling & Support

ESA’s ‘CubeSat central’ for smaller missions into space

02/04/2019 6964 views 85 likes

DLR-Bodenstation Weilheim

Enabling & Support

ESA and DLR in joint study to support deep space missions

02/04/2019 2872 views 53 likes

New Norcia antenna supports NASA's InSight lander on Mars

Science & Exploration

Mars calling

26/03/2019 9235 views 102 likes

SMILE antenna

Enabling & Support

ESA helps business fly in space

10/03/2019 2414 views 56 likes

Lagrange mission

Enabling & Support

ESA’s space weather mission to be protected against stormy …

05/03/2019 4981 views 78 likes

Restless star makes for stunning storm

Safety & Security

Space weather kicks up a social storm

01/03/2019 7627 views 124 likes

Hera at Didymos

Safety & Security

ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited

04/02/2019 10893 views 124 likes

ESA Columbus module

Safety & Security

Hundreds of impacts crater ESA’s Columbus science laboratory

23/01/2019 5709 views 91 likes

Enabling & Support

Join the #AuroraHunters

17/01/2019 8711 views 81 likes

BepiColombo cruise configuration

Enabling & Support

BepiColombo’s first routine firing in space

18/12/2018 4792 views 108 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

Enabling & Support

BepiColombo now firing on all cylinders

05/12/2018 8535 views 140 likes

Galileos measure Einsteinian time dilation

Galileo satellites prove Einstein's Relativity Theory to hi…

04/12/2018 10206 views 139 likes

NASA's InSight lander operating on the surface of Mars

Enabling & Support

ESA lends a hand at Mars

23/11/2018 11268 views 111 likes

From pole to pole

Enabling & Support

Handing over MetOp-C

12/11/2018 1832 views 40 likes

MetOp-C liftoff

Europe’s third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into…

07/11/2018 4492 views 78 likes

Enabling & Support

ESA ready for weather mission liftoff

05/11/2018 883 views 14 likes

Coronal mass ejection

Safety & Security

ESA rocks space weather

05/11/2018 4134 views 61 likes

Flight Operations Director Hervé Côme at ESOC

Enabling & Support

Counting down to MetOp-C

31/10/2018 3609 views 55 likes

Elongated cloud on Mars

Science & Exploration

Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud

25/10/2018 34763 views 229 likes

Elsa Montagnon

Enabling & Support

BepiColombo's beginning ends

22/10/2018 7202 views 166 likes

Science & Exploration

BepiColombo blasts off to investigate Mercury’s mysteries

20/10/2018 16083 views 166 likes

Teams at mission control in BepiColombo simulation

Enabling & Support

Mission control ready for Mercury

17/10/2018 6199 views 83 likes

BepiColombo at Mercury

Enabling & Support

Practising for BepiColombo’s epic escape to Mercury

12/10/2018 5705 views 93 likes

New Norcia Tracking Station GIF

Enabling & Support

Ten years catching rocket signals

26/09/2018 3024 views 43 likes

Spacecraft monitoring the Sun

Enabling & Support

Join ESA at New Scientist Live

17/09/2018 1248 views 16 likes

Reducing debris creation

Safety & Security

‘Space debris – a journey to Earth’ nominated for design aw…

12/09/2018 4317 views 29 likes

Critical days for Aeolus

Enabling & Support

Wind mission ready for next phase

24/08/2018 5401 views 107 likes

ESA’s Aeolus wind satellite launched

23/08/2018 14278 views 135 likes

Enabling & Support

Aeolus teams ready for space

17/08/2018 5873 views 67 likes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >> ... 21