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ESA and ATMOS during CDF concept study for Phoenix 3

The Moon crossing Proba-3’s field of view

Artificial solar eclipse by Proba-3 mission

Eclipse over Cebreros Ground Station

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ESA logo added to fairing for ninth Ariane 6 launch

11/08/2026 56 views 0 likes

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MTG-I2 patch and ESA logo added to Ariane 6 fairing

11/08/2026 125 views 0 likes

Ariane 6 fairing branded, ready for MTG-I2 launch

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 154 views 0 likes

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Test firing at brand new green chemical propulsion lab

16/07/2026 1148 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.

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