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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)

09/03/2026 125 views 2 likes

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

09/03/2026 69 views 0 likes

Flying spacecraft means balancing operational efficiency with human connection: Isabel Rojo at ESOC

Flying spacecraft means trusting yourself: Gabriela Ansteeg at ESOC

Flying spacecraft means solving problems: Angela Dietz at ESOC

Flying spacecraft is meaningful work: Sara Melloni at ESOC

Flying spacecraft means staying curious: Jutta Hübner at ESOC

Women flying spacecraft at ESA mission control

Refill FSSW welding process

Internally stiffened structure using refill FSSW

ESA seeks your ideas to advance stratospheric and mesospheric observation

Overview of the main ISAM missions at ESA

The Circular Economy campaign teams presented at ESTEC

Infrared images of Cassandra repair process on a test sample through heating

Cassandra demonstrator diagram

Self-healable Cassandra demonstrator

Holding Cassandra test panel

Cassandra demonstrator panel in a laboratory

Zefiro-9 hoisting to the top of the Vega-C rocket that will take Smile to space

Zefiro-9 ready for stacking on top of the Vega-C rocket that will take Smile to space

Connecting the third stage of the Vega-C rocket that will take Smile to space

Smile: getting ready to hoist Zefiro-9 to the top of the Vega-C rocket

Zefiro-9 ready for stacking on top of the Vega-C rocket that will take Smile to space

Smile: transporting Zefiro-9 to the Vega-C launch pad

Faces of Ariane 6: Jörn

Jörn (left) at test facility

Working on Ariane 6 booster

Faces of Ariane 6: Jörn

Jörn with colleagues

Group photo

Building Vega-C for smile: lowering Zefiro-40 second stage onto first stage

Zefiro-40 for Smile on the way to the the Vega-C launch pad

Zefiro-40 for Smile at the Vega-C launch pad

Zefiro-40 on the road to the Vega-C launch pad

Zefiro-40 for Smile arrives at the Vega-C launch pad

Students kick off experiments on ESA’s flat floor

Greta fires up

Greta rocket engine in mobile test stand

ESA’s 5G laboratory on wheels

Smile: first stage for Vega-C flight VV29 arrives at the launch pad

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