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Artificial solar eclipse by Proba-3 mission

ESA's ESOC-1 ground station

FOX (Facility for Operations Experimentation) platform infographic

FOX (Facility for Operations Experimentation) key visual

Themis during wet dress rehearsal

Themis during wet dress rehearsal

Themis control centre during wet dress rehearsal

Themis during wet dress rehearsal

Student team’s retroreflector as seen by a radar

Drone with a suspended retroreflector flying over ESTEC

Retroreflector made by a student team from Ruhr University Bochum

Setting up a drone for retroreflector test campaign at ESTEC

Student team and advisors during retroreflector test campaign at ESTEC

Earth and Proba-3’s Coronagraph play hide and seek

Liftoff as Ariane 6 takes flight for the first time

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 lift off on Ariane 6

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 lift off on Ariane 6

Ariane 6 first flight soars

The first Ariane 6 rocket soars

Europe’s new weather satellite launches

The silicon brains steering next-generation antennas

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Vega-C with Avio logo (artist's impression)

22/07/2026 65 views 0 likes

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Test firing at brand new green chemical propulsion lab

16/07/2026 1008 views 25 likes

Meet the team behind ESA’s AMAT (Advanced Mission Analysis Tools) project.

Slide titled “MARTA – MAny Revolution Transfer Algorithm (midas.design.sep.marta)” showing four plots of a spacecraft transfer orbit. The charts display orbital evolution from an initial orbit (red) to a final orbit (blue), including top, side, and three‑dimensional views.

Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Space Systems

MTG-I2 was taken out of its protective casing at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

MTG-I2 was taken out of its protective casing at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

Nine engines on first Rocket Factory Augsburg launch vehicle

Artist's view of Space Transportation's major programmes from 2026 onwards

Artist's view of Space Transportation's major programmes from 2026 onwards – vertical

Synthetic Tracking algorithm process

Recycled plastic components from the Nextek space recycling activity

VOLTA air-breathing electric thruster firing

MISTRAL air-breathing electric propulsion concept

COTS processor radiation testing

CompPair HealTech™ CS03 slit tapes

BioSTEP process diagram

BioSTEP: Biocomposite functional parts from biomass and plastic side streams

The art of hadrons

The BepiColombo thrusters located in the Mercury Transfer Module switch off permanently, marking the end of solar electric propulsion.

The four composite BepiColombo spacecraft is approaching Mercury. Solar electric propulsion thrusters are turned off, priming the spacecraft for the beginning of complex planetary arrival sequence.

The BepiColombo mission team eagerly gathers at ESOC's Main Control Room waiting to receive signal confirmation of the successful shutdown of the spacecraft's solar electric propulsion system.

Ground view: liftoff of first Ariane 6 with P160C-based boosters

First Ariane 6 liftoff with most powerful boosters

First Ariane 6 with P160C-based boosters soars

First Ariane 6 liftoff with P160C-based boosters

Ariane 6 liftoff – first with P160C-based boosters

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