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European engineers in the Eagle mission control room at ESA's technical site in the Netherlands

European engineers in the Orion Mission Evaluation Room at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

Earth sets above the lunar horizon during Artemis II

Orion, European Service Module and a distant Moon

The Artemis II rocket, with Orion and its European Service Module on top, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

The Artemis II rocket, with Orion and its European Service Module on top, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

The Artemis II rocket, with Orion and its European Service Module on top, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

The Artemis II rocket, with Orion and its European Service Module on top, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

The Artemis II rocket, with Orion and its European Service Module on top, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

The Artemis II rocket at its launchpad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center

In October 2025, the Artemis II Orion – complete with crew module, ESA’s European Service Module, solar arrays and launch abort system – was rolled 10 kilometres to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, for stacking onto the Space Launch System rocket.

Space Launch System, vollständig montiert für Artemis II, im Vehicle Assembly Building, einen Tag vor dem Transport zum Startkomplex 39B im Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, am 16. Januar 2026. Bildquelle: ESA-S. Corvaja

Solaranlagen, die am Orion-Raumschiff der NASA für die Artemis II Mission im Operations and Checkout Building des Kennedy Space Centers der NASA installiert wurden, Anfang März 2025. Bildquelle: Lockheed Martin

Orion’s solar arrays were built at Airbus in the Netherlands; the same European engineers came to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to install the four wings on Orion.

Das kegelförmige Besatzungsmodul wird im Kennedy Space Center auf das darunter liegende Servicemodul gesetzt. Bildquelle: NASA

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Artificial solar eclipse by Proba-3 mission

The images are false-colour and were created using Sentinel-2’s near-infrared channel.

These Copernicus Sentinel-2 images over the Danube north of Budapest show how the river’s level has fallen to a record low in Hungary due to a severe drought in central Europe.

Relative severity is a percentage loss relative to the biomass measured before disturbance or harvest.

One-sided spiral

Smoke plume from Greek wildfires seen by Sentinel-3

This colourful radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission features New Orleans and the delta of the Mississippi River, one the largest rivers in North America.

Pacific Ocean salinity June 2026

Themis during wet dress rehearsal

Earth and Proba-3’s Coronagraph play hide and seek

Satellite positions observing the fireball

The data was captured by radar instruments on the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites.

This image based on data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, captured on 26 July, shows the aerosol index over Spain and France, after days of wildfire spread through dry countryside.

These images by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, captured on 26 July, show the area to the west of Bordeaux, France, where wildfires continue to burn countryside, fanned by wind and heatwave conditions.

Raging wildfires near Madrid, Spain

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Australia’s southwestern corner in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia.

Commissioning of Galileo L14 satellites

Focus On

Orion and its European Service Module bringing the crew around the Moon and back to Earth

Surface and cloud-top temperatures by MTG-Sounder

Antarctic Peninsula by Sentinel-1D

Global ozone measured by Sentinel-5A

Bolivian forest: comparing Sentinel-2 and Biomass

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

Svalbard, Norway, seen from Sentinel-1C

Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)

Arctic Weather Satellite’s first images capture Storm Boris

Seville from Copernicus Sentinel-2C

Vertical distribution of cloud particle concentration

Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Didymos and Dimorphos seen by DART

Webb’s first deep field

Mercury first impressions

First sea-level height results from Copernicus Sentinel-6

The density of stars from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3

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