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Proba-3's Coronagraph captured by the Occulter

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Proba-3’s Coronagraph is alive!

19/03/2026 3455 views 77 likes

ESA's Ministerial Council 2025

Upcoming ESA–Industry events on CM25 implementation

19/03/2026 474 views 18 likes

ECOS is the web-based ESA costing software tool which is free for industry doing business with ESA

ESA rolls out new costing software for its suppliers

11/03/2026 421 views 6 likes

Multi-beam satellite navigation antenna test

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The tiny lens antenna with big potential

11/03/2026 2492 views 53 likes

Proba-3 spacecraft aligned above Earth

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Work ongoing to restore contact with Proba-3's Coronagraph

06/03/2026 5160 views 38 likes

V-STARS team

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Crawling, gripping and floating above ESA’s flat floor

26/01/2026 1312 views 24 likes

Friction stir welding machine at MT Aerospace

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Artificial intelligence in manufacturing rocket parts

21/01/2026 2818 views 60 likes

Preparing for fueling

Stay smart on space chemical compliance

20/01/2026 587 views 25 likes

Coronal mass ejection captured by Proba-2, Proba-3 and SOHO

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Proba-3 fills the solar observation gap

17/12/2025 3355 views 49 likes

Success for Europe's space technology at CM25

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CM25: A historic step forward for Europe’s space technology…

28/11/2025 2879 views 29 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

Science & Exploration

Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 5196 views 43 likes

3D-printed space metal under microscope

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A close-up look at the first metal part made in space

13/11/2025 3504 views 51 likes

Group picture at the Space Systems Engineering Training Course at ESEC – Galaxia

ESA and AfSA join forces for systems engineering training

04/11/2025 2552 views 35 likes

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ESA’s first stand-alone deep-space CubeSat Henon takes shape

29/10/2025 3764 views 42 likes

PTB’s facility: vacuum chamber hosting the new reference blackbody

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Ensuring the accuracy of ESA’s FORUM climate mission

09/10/2025 1070 views 24 likes

The cavernous chamber of the Large Space Simulator

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Large Space Simulator gets a digital twin

06/10/2025 3700 views 44 likes

Dielof van Loon and his drone

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The dynamic drone-rover duo with a special bond

24/09/2025 2248 views 25 likes

Endothelial cells

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A cell’s-eye view of altered gravity and ageing

16/09/2025 1544 views 31 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

Science & Exploration

Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 4624 views 48 likes

Over the summer 2025, ESA’s Ground Laser Transmitter, installed at the Kryoneri Observatory in Greece, has been the half of a optical communication demonstration campaign between Earth and NASA’s Psyche mission.

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ESA wraps up 300-million-kilometre optical communication ca…

27/08/2025 4734 views 47 likes

MicroCarb in preparation for its flight on Vega-C

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Europe’s new carbon-monitoring mission launches on Vega-C

28/07/2025 1610 views 16 likes

The four-legged robot Olympus on Europe’s flattest floor

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Four-legged robot’s first encounter with microgravity

17/07/2025 2824 views 21 likes

Smile sees the light

Science & Exploration

Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 3474 views 40 likes

NASA's Psyche mission

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Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

10/07/2025 14892 views 92 likes

TU Delft’s autonomous drone racing against a human pilot

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From ESA lab to a historic drone race win

08/07/2025 1865 views 37 likes

Innovative mission concepts enabled by disruptive computing paradigms

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Help ESA redefine the future of space computing

30/06/2025 2250 views 33 likes

Radio eye on forest mission Biomass

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R&D Successes Onboard Biomass

23/06/2025 1132 views 29 likes

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

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Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse

16/06/2025 37732 views 145 likes

Site of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (ESDI) at Park Innovaare in Villigen, Switzerland

Inauguration of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Cen…

27/05/2025 5536 views 46 likes

YPSat-2 thermal sub-system team

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About YPSat-2

26/05/2025 2127 views 28 likes

Fuelling Galileo-13

Navigate revisions to laws on hazardous chemicals in the EU

22/05/2025 1414 views 34 likes

Proba-3 Occulter eclipsing Sun for Coronagraph spacecraft

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Proba-3 achieves precise formation flying

08/05/2025 9130 views 74 likes

Advanced Concepts Team’s ELOPE challenge

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‘ELOPE’ with ESA’s moon landing guidance competition

01/05/2025 2069 views 31 likes

ESA was guest of honour at the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva 2025

Space technologies find new life on Earth

16/04/2025 2086 views 28 likes

Space Rider's ALEK in accoustic chamber

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Space Rider’s smart ALEK passes bumpy, noisy, shocking test…

10/04/2025 2767 views 42 likes

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher welcomes industry

ESA shares space proposals with industry

07/04/2025 3665 views 46 likes

Proba-3’s Coronagraph spacecraft captured by a camera onboard the Occulter spacecraft during the mission's first autonomous formation acquisition

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Proba-3's first autonomous formation flight

27/03/2025 5137 views 62 likes

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

25/03/2025 4323 views 40 likes

Sir Brian May and the rest of Hera's science team see Mars image arrive

Hera asteroid mission spies Mars’s Deimos moon

13/03/2025 24431 views 140 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Watch live: Images from Hera’s Mars flyby

10/03/2025 28193 views 119 likes

Perfect placement for Smile’s payload module

Science & Exploration

When two become one: engineers get Smile ready for launch

06/03/2025 3112 views 48 likes

Student teams explore ESTEC’s robotics labs

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Student teams explore ESA’s robotics labs

06/03/2025 1105 views 18 likes

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Growing Algae on Mars

06/03/2025 2734 views 35 likes

ESA engineering

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ESA seeks companies to commercialise inventions

26/02/2025 2322 views 33 likes

Proba-3’s ASPIICS coronagraph

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Proba-3 stargazing to warm up for corona observations

24/02/2025 2609 views 61 likes

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Developing an open-source tool for a European space-grade c…

20/02/2025 2748 views 32 likes

ESA Director General, Josef Aschbacher presented the Honourable Mention award to Helene Huby, Co-Founder and CEO at The Exploration Company

ESA Business Incubation Centres celebrate two decades of in…

14/02/2025 1958 views 21 likes

Timelapse of hydrogel swelling

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For astronaut radiation protection, just add water

06/02/2025 11153 views 105 likes

Space radiation

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Here there be radiation dragons

03/02/2025 2110 views 35 likes

Columbus laboratory

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Using AI for more reliable space missions

30/01/2025 4157 views 31 likes

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