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ESA's Ministerial Council 2025

Upcoming ESA–Industry events on CM25 implementation

22/06/2026 902 views 34 likes

Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse after recovery

Enabling & Support

We’re back: Proba-3 ready for more science

09/06/2026 2008 views 60 likes

Artist's view of the ICI-5 mission flying through the aurora borealis and deploying daughter payloads

ESA’s Prodex programme brings scientific research to space

22/05/2026 2121 views 57 likes

ESA's REACH workshop on hazardous chemicals helps the space industry stay compliant with EU regulations

Stay space chemical compliant in the EU

21/05/2026 501 views 27 likes

Textile material erosion after environmental testing

Enabling & Support

The young minds space-proofing ESA’s missions

13/05/2026 1128 views 33 likes

Extended reality at ESA

Enabling & Support

Extended Reality at ESA opens new pathways for space explor…

07/05/2026 2828 views 48 likes

Close-up of Plato’s cameras

Science & Exploration

Plato aces space-like tests

23/04/2026 5524 views 43 likes

SME initiative

SME Forum 2026 – Join ESA's annual consultation process

15/04/2026 648 views 11 likes

Imaged of processed Proba-3 data that highlights movement around the Sun

Science & Exploration

First Proba-3 science: surprisingly speedy solar wind

13/04/2026 4335 views 51 likes

Industry Space Days 2026

Register for ESA’s Industry Space Days 2026

10/04/2026 943 views 10 likes

Light hits graphene aerogel

Science & Exploration

Graphene and lasers for space propulsion

07/04/2026 5248 views 39 likes

Proba-3's Coronagraph captured by the Occulter

Enabling & Support

Proba-3’s Coronagraph is alive!

19/03/2026 4159 views 80 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 945 views 6 likes

Multi-beam satellite navigation antenna test

Enabling & Support

The tiny lens antenna with big potential

11/03/2026 3191 views 57 likes

Proba-3 spacecraft aligned above Earth

Enabling & Support

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

06/03/2026 5750 views 39 likes

V-STARS team

Enabling & Support

Crawling, gripping and floating above ESA’s flat floor

26/01/2026 1590 views 24 likes

Friction stir welding machine at MT Aerospace

Enabling & Support

Artificial intelligence in manufacturing rocket parts

21/01/2026 3188 views 63 likes

Preparing for fueling

Stay smart on space chemical compliance

20/01/2026 742 views 26 likes

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

Enabling & Support

Proba-3 fills the solar observation gap

17/12/2025 3686 views 50 likes

Success for Europe's space technology at CM25

Enabling & Support

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

28/11/2025 3328 views 29 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

Science & Exploration

Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 6379 views 44 likes

3D-printed space metal under microscope

Enabling & Support

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

13/11/2025 4351 views 56 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 2729 views 36 likes

Enabling & Support

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

29/10/2025 4110 views 42 likes

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

Enabling & Support

Ensuring the accuracy of ESA’s FORUM climate mission

09/10/2025 1297 views 26 likes

The cavernous chamber of the Large Space Simulator

Enabling & Support

Large Space Simulator gets a digital twin

06/10/2025 4104 views 45 likes

Dielof van Loon and his drone

Enabling & Support

The dynamic drone-rover duo with a special bond

24/09/2025 2483 views 25 likes

Endothelial cells

Enabling & Support

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

16/09/2025 1719 views 34 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

Science & Exploration

Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 5081 views 49 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.

Enabling & Support

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

27/08/2025 5195 views 47 likes

MicroCarb in preparation for its flight on Vega-C

Enabling & Support

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

28/07/2025 1721 views 16 likes

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

Enabling & Support

Four-legged robot’s first encounter with microgravity

17/07/2025 3056 views 21 likes

Smile sees the light

Science & Exploration

Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 4009 views 40 likes

NASA's Psyche mission

Enabling & Support

Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

10/07/2025 15739 views 93 likes

TU Delft’s autonomous drone racing against a human pilot

Enabling & Support

From ESA lab to a historic drone race win

08/07/2025 2070 views 37 likes

Innovative mission concepts enabled by disruptive computing paradigms

Enabling & Support

Help ESA redefine the future of space computing

30/06/2025 2482 views 33 likes

Radio eye on forest mission Biomass

Enabling & Support

R&D Successes Onboard Biomass

23/06/2025 1301 views 30 likes

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

Enabling & Support

Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse

16/06/2025 38583 views 146 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 5908 views 47 likes

YPSat-2 thermal sub-system team

Enabling & Support

About YPSat-2

26/05/2025 2521 views 28 likes

Fuelling Galileo-13

Navigate revisions to laws on hazardous chemicals in the EU

22/05/2025 1530 views 34 likes

Proba-3 Occulter eclipsing Sun for Coronagraph spacecraft

Enabling & Support

Proba-3 achieves precise formation flying

08/05/2025 9520 views 74 likes

Advanced Concepts Team’s ELOPE challenge

Enabling & Support

‘ELOPE’ with ESA’s moon landing guidance competition

01/05/2025 2160 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 2222 views 28 likes

Space Rider's ALEK in accoustic chamber

Enabling & Support

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

10/04/2025 2937 views 42 likes

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher welcomes industry

ESA shares space proposals with industry

07/04/2025 3747 views 46 likes

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

Enabling & Support

Proba-3's first autonomous formation flight

27/03/2025 5364 views 62 likes

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

25/03/2025 4567 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 25161 views 140 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Watch live: Images from Hera’s Mars flyby

10/03/2025 28358 views 119 likes

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