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    ESA > Our Activities > Space Science

    Spacecraft

    XMM campaign

    Selected articles covering from how a mission is chosen, designed, built and tested, through to getting into space and what happens when the mission is over.

    • How a mission is chosen

    • Designing and building spacecraft

      • Technology preparation
      • Serving the spacecraft
      • Instruments

    • Testing spacecraft

    • Launching spacecraft

      • What is a 'launch window'?
      • Getting ready for launch

    • Getting to the destination

      • Types of orbit
      • What are Lagrange points?
      • L1, Lagrangian Point
      • L2, Lagrangian Point
      • Interplanetary trajectories
      • Gravity assist manoeuvres

    • Operating in space
      • Surviving and operating in extreme conditions
      • What is SOHO/EIT 'bakeout'?
      • Making light work of the dark

      • When the mission is complete

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