Welcome!

This site has been made for you: the general public and the media. It is designed to give you all the information you need to know about our Space Science Programme, or just to satisfy your curiosity!

There are many new features through which you can share the excitement of our European science adventure in space. There is a Media Centre with the latest news stories, press releases and factsheets, a multimedia archive hosting high-quality images, video clips and 'sounds'. Other new features will be introduced in the next few months.

Our user-friendly language, together with a clear navigation system, a distinction between media information packages and general public features, will make this site useful, entertaining and instructive.

If you want the more technical details of our Space Science Programme and missions, use the direct entry point to the Science and Technology web site (http://sci.esa.int) offered on these pages.

We hope you will enjoy using our web site as much as we have enjoyed building it! If you visit us regularly, there will be some nice surprises...