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Textile material erosion after environmental testing

Sarah Krahl: detecting laser contamination

Space Forge plasma in space

Dawn Aerospace SatDrive

Geometrid moth (Geometridae)

Sensitive and sturdy

Europe's largest solid-propellant rocket motors

Virtual Reality on the International Space Station

Virtual reality combined with an exoskeleton

Extended reality at ESA

Europe's solid-propellant rocket motors in use: P120C and P160C

Labyrinth seal optimisation

The great parachute bake-out

Team working on Space Rider’s reentry module parts

Team placing Space Rider’s reentry module parts inside the plasma wind tunnel

Team preparing the plasma wind tunnel

Artist's view of Ariane 6 flying with four boosters

Ariane 6 lifts off for flight VA268

A new grip on space: electrostatic capture technology

First full-size Space Rider test model assembled

Space Rider's nose

Inside view of the Space Rider drop-test model

From lunar regolith to printed electronics

ESA Extended Reality Competence Centre

The perfect place for Celeste’s first navigation signal

Pointing in the (b)right direction

Monitoring signals from deep space antenna 4

A silicon chip that can do it all

Smile: aerial view hoisting Vega-C fourth stage for flight VV29

Smile: transporting Vega-C fourth stage for flight VV29

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher visits DSA 4 during inauguration

ESA's Deep Space Antenna 1 (DSA 1) and Deep Space Antenna 4 (DSA 4) at New Norcia ground station site in Australia

Artist impression of a nuclear-electric spacecraft near Ceres

Artist impression of nuclear-powered spacecraft near Mars

RFA One in Saxavord Spaceport

Spectrum on the launch pad under Northern Lights

Spectrum rocket rolling out to the launch pad

Spectrum on the launch pad in the summer

Smile: transporting fourth stage to the Vega-C launch pad

Smile: hoisting Vega-C fourth stage for flight VV29

The Juice flight control team are happy to confirm a successful 3I/ATLAS downlink

Proba-3's Coronagraph captured by the Occulter

3D printing of metallic powders and foils

Kompsat-7 launched on Vega-C

Former NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps visits ESTEC

3D-printed lens antenna tested at ESTEC

Vega-C launching Smile satellite (artist impression)

Ariane 6 and Vega-C over Earth (artist impression)

Ariane 6 and Vega-C over Earth (artist impression)

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Vega-C over Earth with Avio logo (artist impression)

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