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On 28 November 1983, the first European-built Spacelab was launched from @NASAKennedy aboard Space Shuttle Columbia.Also on board was Ulf Merbold, who became our first astronaut in space. The 10-day Spacelab-1 mission marked our entry into human spaceflight activities.Under a cooperation agreement with @NASA, we were to build a modular research lab…

Have you ever dreamt of flying your own satellite? A team of university students from @universitycollegedublin have done just that!Meet EIRSAT-1, the Educational Irish Research Satellite, Ireland’s first ever satellite to go to space.The journey wasn’t easy, but over six years, the students worked with our experts and in our state-of-the-art labs a…

Watch as Europe’s new Ariane 6 rocket goes through a full-scale rehearsal in preparation for its first flight, when teams from @ArianeGroup, @CnesFrance and ESA on the ground will complete a launch countdown rehearsal. The test includes the ignition of the core stage Vulcain 2.1 engine, followed by 470 seconds of stabilised operation covering the e…

One giant planet. Three icy moons. An eight-year journey. One special spacecraft.Building a mission to Jupiter took years of planning and thousands of people. Now that Juice is finally en route to its destination, we go behind the scenes to discover the story of the making of Juice.The film features exclusive interviews with scientists and engineer…

Watch live as Ireland goes to space, for the first time, with the launch of EIRSAT-1. Built by students at @universitycollegedublin under the guidance of ESA’s Education Office, EIRSAT-1 is a 2-unit CubeSat carrying three experiments, including a novel gamma ray detector that will study some of the most luminous explosions in the universe. Irish br…

Have you ever dreamt of flying your own satellite? A team of university students from @universitycollegedublin have done just that!Meet EIRSAT-1, the Educational Irish Research Satellite, Ireland’s first ever satellite to go to space.The journey wasn’t easy, but over six years, the students worked with our experts and in our state-of-the-art labs a…

Missions to Mars have made many exciting discoveries that have transformed our understanding of the planet, but the next step is to bring samples to Earth for detailed analysis in sophisticated laboratories.🎥 ESA - European Space Agency#ESA #Mars #MarsRoverOleh European Space Agency, ESA

A team of university students from University College Dublin is taking Ireland to space, for the very first time. The story begins in 2017, when the team was accepted to ESA's educational CubeSat programme, Fly Your Satellite! Over the course of six years, they have designed, built, and tested the satellite with the help of ESA experts and with acc…

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide. Curbing methane emissions could deliver immediate and long-lasting benefits for the climate, seeing as the gas only lingers in the atmosphere for a relatively short time.Satellites have a really important role to play in reducing greenhouse gas e…

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ESA is releasing the first full-colour images of the cosmos captured by its recently launched space telescope Euclid. Follow live a broadcast of the reveal on Tuesday 7 November at 13:15 GMT / 14:15 CET.Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical images across such a large patch of the sky. Five images show that t…

Today, ESA’s Euclid space mission reveals its first full-colour images of the cosmos. Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical images across such a large patch of the sky, and looking so far into the distant Universe. These five images illustrate Euclid's full potential; they show that the telescope is ready to…

The first image shown in this video is the 2005 Hubble optical wavelength image of the Crab Nebula. This is followed by a new image of the object from the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) instruments that has revealed new details in infrared light.In Webb’s infrared observation, a crisp, …

There is no point in sending human explorers on long voyages around the solar system if they arrive at their destination in poor physical shape. Long stays in zero gravity are not good for the human body.We already know that astronauts lose bone mass at around 1% for every month they are in space; muscles - including heart muscles - atrophy despite…

Never before has a telescope been able to create such razor-sharp astronomical images across such a large patch of the sky.On Tuesday 7 November, ESA will release the first full-colour images captured by its recently launched Euclid space telescope. These images form part of the mission’s ‘Early Release Observations’ – where Euclid was tasked with …

This video takes the viewer on a cosmic journey to the Crab Nebula.The new image of the object revealed at the end from NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope was captured by the NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) instruments to reveal new details in infrared light.Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, KPNO/NOIRLab, ESO…

ESA’s Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite was launched in August 2018 on a trailblazing mission to show how profiling Earth’s winds from space can improve weather forecasts and climate models. Marking the end of Aeolus’ remarkable mission, ESA worked with composer Jamie Perera to create a woodwind piece from data that spanned the lifetime of the satell…

Euclid Operations Director, Andreas Rudolph, completes the final GO/NO GO RollCall before ESA's cosmic detective is launched from Cape Canaveral on 1 July, to discover the secrets of the dark Universe.Mission Control is GO for launch.Oleh European Space Agency

Listen to the eerie sound of a boom on board ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft deploying in space during commissioning of the spacecraft in May 2023. Tip: use headphones or surround speakers for the best experience – the forward and backward wobbles of the boom come through the left and right channels. The vibration signal used to…

Juice Operations Director, Andrea Accomazzo, completes the final GO/NO GO RollCall before ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer lifts-off on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou on 14 April.Mission Control is GO for launch.Oleh European Space Agency

One year ago, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted, causing widespread destruction to the Pacific Island Nation of Tonga. It spewed volcanic material up to 58 km into the atmosphere, brought a nearly 15 m tsunami that crashed ashore, destroying villages, and created a sonic boom that rippled around the world – twice. Even one year on, inte…

Despite being essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field isn’t something we can actually see in itself, or ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have taken magnetic signals measured by ESA’s Swarm satellite mission and converted them into sound – and for something that protects us, the result is pretty sc…

Voice of Alexander Schmid, Eumetsat Programme ManagerOleh European Space Agency

Voice of Donny Aminou, MTG Payload ManagerOleh European Space Agency

Voice of Paul Blythe, MTG Programme Manager at ESAOleh European Space Agency

Voice of Paul Blythe, MTG Programme Manager at ESAOleh European Space Agency

Voice of Simonetta Cheli, Head of ESA Earth Observation ProgrammesOleh European Space Agency

Voice of Paul Blythe, MTG Programme Manager at ESAOleh European Space Agency

Voice of Alexander Schmid, Eumetsat Programme ManagerOleh European Space Agency

Voice of Simonetta Cheli, Head of ESA Earth Observation ProgrammesOleh European Space Agency

Voice of Simonetta Cheli, Head of ESA Earth Observation ProgrammesOleh European Space Agency

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…

A team of experts, including scientists and musicians, has created a new way to explore the images and data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The first two tracks map the prismatic landscapes of the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula as well as two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. A third track plays the notes of a transmission sp…