3+ hour, 18+ min ago  (368+ words) The European Space Agency has awarded the contract to lead the development and build for two Copernicus Sentinel-1 Next Generation satellites to Thales Alenia Space. Building on the success of the current Sentinel-1 mission, the next-generation satellites will ensure the…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (567+ words) The European Space Agency (ESA) is using Extended Reality (XR) to support training, enhance operations, improve simulation environments, and to bring the wonders of space to the public. Walking on the Moon, operating a spacecraft, or floating aboard the International…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (587+ words) Next, a workshop, to be held on 7 May 2026 will expand on previous work by the Agency and industry to establish which security concerns should be priorities and where gaps in the market existed. This next workshop will build collaborations to…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (541+ words) Thirteen European satellites on the same rideshare launcher have successfully reached orbit, bringing capabilities to Italian and Greek monitoring programmes as well as Cube Sats that will test satellite connectivity. The European satellites are: The launch took place on Sunday,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (440+ words) The results are in! Today is the day student teams find out if their code has achieved flight status for the European Astro Pi Challenge 2025/2026! The first batches of Mission Space Lab programs are scheduled to start running on the…...

2+ mon, 11+ hour ago  (372+ words) The European Space Agency has achieved a European first with Celeste, successfully transmitting a navigation signal from low Earth orbit, following the launch of the mission's first satellites on March 28. On the morning of Wednesday, 8 April, ESA and industrial teams…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (541+ words) Last year, history was made as a navigation receiver on the Moon determined its position in real time using signals from approximately 410 000 km away. The receiver, called the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (Lu GRE), acquired signals from four navigation satellites…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (10+ words) A silicon chip that can do it all'European Space Agency...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (146+ words) European Space Agency Rocket Lab's Electron rocket lifts off carrying Celeste Thank you for liking You have already liked this page, you can only like it once! Rocket Lab's Electron rocket lifts off from the M'hia Launch Complex in New…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (141+ words) European Space Agency Thank you for liking You have already liked this page, you can only like it once! The first two Celeste satellites have been placed inside Rocket Lab's Electron rocket fairing ahead of their planned launch on 24 March....