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ESA control room

Enabling & Support

ESA and CNES experts ready for Galileo’s first orbits

20/08/2014 4939 views 28 likes

ATV-5 docks

Science & Exploration

ATV completes final automated docking

12/08/2014 11676 views 66 likes

Science & Exploration

ESA’s cargo vessel ready for space delivery

11/08/2014 6605 views 50 likes

Rover control centre

Enabling & Support

Gerst drives car-sized rover from space

08/08/2014 8299 views 71 likes

Comet on 3 August 2014

Science & Exploration

Rosetta arrives at comet destination

06/08/2014 229766 views 726 likes

Main Control Room

Enabling & Support

Rosetta timeline: countdown to comet arrival

05/08/2014 54930 views 194 likes

Space navigators at work

Enabling & Support

How Rosetta arrives at a comet

01/08/2014 25053 views 139 likes

Science & Exploration

Venus Express: up above the clouds so high

28/07/2014 15439 views 85 likes

OHB-designed Galileo satellite

Enabling & Support

Galileo’s ‘midwives’ stand ready for launch

23/07/2014 5689 views 67 likes

Venus Express aerobraking

Science & Exploration

Venus Express rises again

11/07/2014 53320 views 116 likes

Science & Exploration

Rosetta, are we there yet?

09/07/2014 35797 views 96 likes

Space debris objects in orbit

ESA makes space debris software available online

25/06/2014 23417 views 32 likes

Harpooning in space

Whale of a target: harpooning space debris

24/06/2014 15800 views 78 likes

Comet on 4 June

Science & Exploration

Rosetta’s comet: expect the unexpected

19/06/2014 17600 views 105 likes

Space weather report for Venus 5 June 2014

Space weather report for an alien world

06/06/2014 8264 views 55 likes

Visualisation of the Venus Express aerobraking manoeuvre

Science & Exploration

Venus Express gets ready to take the plunge

16/05/2014 38305 views 111 likes

Andreas using a flare for survival training

Science & Exploration

Andreas Mogensen’s mission name links cosmos and Earth

28/04/2014 5284 views 39 likes

Laser from the Moon

Enabling & Support

Laser-powered farewell to Moon mission

25/04/2014 9468 views 85 likes

Sentinel-1 performs opening dance routine

04/04/2014 15413 views 113 likes

Sentinel-1A liftoff

Europe lofts first Copernicus environmental satellite

03/04/2014 15321 views 61 likes

Soyuz VS07 transfer from MIK to launch zone

Enabling & Support

Dress rehearsal final step prepares for Sentinel-1

02/04/2014 5626 views 44 likes

Rosetta’s first sighting of its target in 2014 – narrow angle view

Science & Exploration

Rosetta sets sights on destination comet

27/03/2014 22183 views 111 likes

Fully loaded

Sentinel-1 fuelled and ready

26/03/2014 5923 views 62 likes

Main control room

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-1 controllers ready for hectic first days

25/03/2014 4696 views 48 likes

Upgraded station in Spain

Enabling & Support

Catching signals from a speeding satellite

07/03/2014 8385 views 80 likes

Body-mounted astronaut joystick

Enabling & Support

Touchy-feely joystick heading to Space Station

26/02/2014 10043 views 79 likes

Test radar in Spain

ESA debris radar detects first space objects

25/02/2014 7711 views 34 likes

Swarm heads for new heights

06/02/2014 7747 views 80 likes

Artist's impression of asteroids passing Earth

Getting ready for asteroids

31/01/2014 29878 views 101 likes

I helped wake up Rosetta!

Science & Exploration

The competition winners who helped us wake up Rosetta

29/01/2014 18997 views 47 likes

Rosetta teams at ESOC

Enabling & Support

Rosetta wide awake as check-up continues

29/01/2014 11990 views 111 likes

Science & Exploration

ESA’s ‘sleeping beauty’ wakes up from deep space hibernation

20/01/2014 107379 views 393 likes

Science & Exploration

The most important alarm clock in the Solar System

16/01/2014 34002 views 114 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Enabling & Support

The experts behind Gaia's arrival at nothingness

15/01/2014 16229 views 145 likes

Science & Exploration

Call for Media: Rosetta wake up event

13/01/2014 14859 views 57 likes

Gaia liftoff

Science & Exploration

Gaia enters its operational orbit

08/01/2014 23307 views 100 likes

Science & Exploration

Mars Express heading towards daring flyby of Phobos

23/12/2013 26285 views 129 likes

Gossamer deorbit sail

Sailing satellites into safe retirement

20/12/2013 13404 views 110 likes

Gaia liftoff

Science & Exploration

Liftoff for ESA’s billion-star surveyor

19/12/2013 30627 views 154 likes

Science & Exploration

Gaia has ticket to ride

18/12/2013 11851 views 61 likes

Soyuz VS06 transfer to launch zone

Enabling & Support

Gaia liftoff timeline

18/12/2013 3823 views 17 likes

Gaia launch

Enabling & Support

Mission control ready for Gaia launch

17/12/2013 14152 views 66 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Science & Exploration

Call for Media: ESA’s Galaxy-mapping Gaia ready for launch …

12/12/2013 3937 views 17 likes

Science & Exploration

Wake up, Rosetta!

10/12/2013 61223 views 124 likes

Philae landing on comet

Science & Exploration

Background briefing – Rosetta wake up and year ahead

03/12/2013 10293 views 48 likes

Kourou tracking station

Enabling & Support

Helping China to the Moon

29/11/2013 24882 views 158 likes

Enabling & Support

End of the beginning for Swarm trio

26/11/2013 6884 views 81 likes

Swarm constellation deploys booms

23/11/2013 6482 views 56 likes

Swarm ready for launch

22/11/2013 3150 views 28 likes

Swarm upper composite hoisted to the top of the service tower

Enabling & Support

Swarm launch timeline

21/11/2013 2697 views 10 likes

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