Themis
3 photos
Themis is an ESA rocket prototype – a flagship European demonstrator for low-cost rocket recovery and reuse technologies. Themis will be powered by the reusable, methane-fuelled engine Prometheus,...
ESA Astronaut Reserve
12 photos
For the first time, ESA has established a reserve pool of astronauts. This reserve list is composed of candidates who were successful throughout the entire selection process but cannot be recruited...
Ariel
1 photo
ESA’s mission Ariel, Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey, will inspect the atmospheres of a thousand planets in our galaxy orbiting stars other than the Sun. Ariel will...
ESA Open Day 2024 in the Netherlands
9 photos
Images from the 13th edition of the ESA Open Days at ESTEC, ESA's technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, which took place on 5 and 6 October 2024.
As with the previous three editions,...
LUNA
14 photos
On 25 September 2024 in Cologne, Germany, the LUNA lunar analogue facility was officially inaugurated. This cutting-edge facility, operated jointly by ESA and DLR, replicates the Moon’s surface and...
Sentinel-2C
7 photos
Sławosz Uznański
8 photos
Sławosz Uznański was selected in November 2022 as a member of the ESA astronaut reserve after a year-long selection process. The 2022 ESA recruitment campaign received over 22 5000 applications...
Ariane 6
142 photos
Ariane 6 is the next rocket in a long history of launchers to fly from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana – demonstrating the power of multinational cooperation for over five decades.
ILA 2024
8 photos
The 2024 edition of the Berlin International Airshow (ILA), Germany's largest aerospace trade show, returns to Berlin ExpoCenter Airport from 5 to 9 June. ESA is taking part to present Europe's...
Einstein Probe
3 photos
Einstein probe is searching the Universe for cosmic variable objects and transient phenomena shining in X-ray light.
Using its large field of view, Einstein Probe can monitor a huge part of the...
ESA’s astronaut class of 2022 graduate
4 photos
On Monday 22 April 2024 ESA celebrated the graduation of its class of 2022 astronaut candidates. The ceremony, held at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, signified the successful...
Royal visit to ESA ESTEC, April 2024
9 photos
HM King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and HM King Felipe VI of Spain visited ESA ESTEC in Noordwijk on 18 April 2024, hosted by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Head of ESTEC/Director...
Arctic Weather Satellite
6 photos
The Arctic Weather Satellite mission will provide frequent coverage of Earth for improved nowcasting and numerical weather prediction. Carrying a cross-track scanning microwave radiometer, the Arctic...
Proba-3
8 photos
Proba-3 is ESA’s – and the world’s – first precision formation flying mission. A pair of satellites will fly together maintaining a fixed configuration as a ‘large rigid structure’ in...
Houston, you've got visitors!
7 photos
Last week, members of ESA’s astronaut class of 2022 embarked on their first overseas field trip. They visited NASA’s facilities at the Johnson Space Centre (JSC) in Houston, Texas, USA, to get...
Hera
35 photos
As part of the world’s first test of asteroid deflection, Hera will perform a detailed post-impact survey of the target asteroid, Dimorphos – the orbiting moonlet of a binary asteroid system...
MetOp-SG
2 photos
Space Summit 2023
8 photos
Government ministers representing ESA’s Member States, Associate States and Cooperating States met for a Council meeting on 6 November 2023 during the Space Summit in Seville, Spain. They resolved...
ESA Open Day 2023 in the Netherlands
22 photos
The theme of this year’s ESA Open Days is ‘Science Fiction Gets Real’, highlighting how science fiction has inspired scientists and engineers to join ESA, and turn once imaginary concepts into...
ESA Open Day Italy 2023
7 photos
On Friday 29 September, the European Space Agency opened the doors of the ESA Centre for Earth Observation, ESRIN, to host the ESA Open Day in the framework of the European Researchers' Night. With a...
Little Pictures of Climate
26 photos
The Little Pictures of Climate competition invites creative experts and enthusiasts across Europe to access and illustrate freely accessible climate datasets available from ESA, European Organisation...
XRISM
3 photos
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a collaboration between JAXA and NASA, with significant participation from ESA, will observe the most energetic objects and events in the cosmos....
Andreas Mogensen
195 photos
Andreas became the first Danish citizen in space on 2 September 2015 when he was launched on the 10-day ‘iriss’ mission to the International Space Station. While on the Space Station, Andreas...
Plato
6 photos
ESA’s mission Plato, PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, will use its 26 cameras to study terrestrial exoplanets in orbits up to the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission will...
Flight VA261
10 photos
The flight VA261 will be the 117th and final mission for Ariane 5, a series which began in 1996.
Euclid
92 photos
ESA's Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe.
Marcus Wandt
64 photos
ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt from Sweden will travel to the International Space Station on Axiom Mission 3 (Ax-3). Marcus’s mission is called Muninn.
Europe is teaming with a commercial...
New ESA astronaut candidates basic training
34 photos
ESA's newly selected astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 arrived at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, on 3 April 2023 to begin their 12-month basic training.
Meteosat Third Generation
27 photos
Building on the long-standing partnership between ESA and Eumetsat, Meteosat Third Generation will guarantee the continuity of data for weather forecasting from geostationary orbit for the next two...
ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level (CM22)
42 photos
On 22 and 23 November 2022, ESA Member States, Associate States and Cooperating States observers gathered in Paris, France, for the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level (CM22). They discussed how...
ESRIN Researchers Night 2022
14 photos
30th September 2022
ESA Open Days 2022
36 photos
The 11th annual ESA Open Day at ESA’s technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, took place on the weekend of 1 and 2 October 2022. On 1 October, visitors with disabilities had the opportunity...
IAC 2022
21 photos
The 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2022), taking place from 18 to 22 September at the Paris Convention Centre in Paris. A week of lively interactions awaits the world space community,...
EarthCARE
29 photos
The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite mission will advance our understanding of the role that clouds and aerosols play in reflecting incident solar radiation back out...
FIA 2022
22 photos
Farnborough International Airshow, July 2022.
ILA 2022
6 photos
ESA joined the Space Pavilion at ILA 2022 to present the newest programmes, missions and technologies at the heart of Europe’s space effort. The Pavilion also highlights upcoming commercial...
Vega-C
66 photos
Vega-C is a single body rocket about 35 m high with a mass at liftoff of 210 tonnes. It is able to place about 2200 kg in a reference 700 km-polar orbit. This will meet the needs of European...
Webb
379 photos
Inspired by the success of the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency have collaborated since 1996 on the design and construction of a scientifically worthy successor. Due to...
Living Planet Symposium 2022
10 photos
Taking place on 23–27 May 2022 in Bonn, Germany, this symposium focuses on how Earth observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the...
308th ESA Council
5 photos
Galileo 27-28
6 photos
Europe’s largest satellite constellation has grown even bigger, following the launch of two more Galileo navigation satellites by Soyuz launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 5...
IMM21
7 photos
ESA’s Ministers in charge of space activities convened at an Intermediate Ministerial Meeting (IMM21) at the CEiiA centre, Matosinhos, Portugal, on 18-19 November 2021.
Biomass
4 photos
Carrying a novel P-band synthetic aperture radar, the Biomass mission is designed to deliver crucial information about the state of our forests and how they are changing, and to further our knowledge...
ESA Open Day NL 2021
27 photos
10 things you didn’t know about the Moon:...
19 photos
What do you know about the Moon? This set of infographics with accessible text illustrates the most frequently asked questions and facts about Earth’s natural satellite.
Eutelsat Quantum
24 photos
Eutelsat Quantum is a sophisticated software-defined satellite, preparing the way for the next generation of telecommunication satellites that can be reprogrammed in orbit. It offers unprecedented...
European Robotic Arm
19 photos
The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is the first robot that can ‘walk’ around the Russian part of the International Space Station. 100% made-in-Europe, this intelligent robotic arm has a length of...
10 things you didn't know about the Moon
13 photos
What do you know about the Moon? This set of infographics illustrates the most frequently asked questions and facts about Earth’s natural satellite.
Thomas Pesquet
195 photos
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet.
More images are available at: www.flickr.com/photos/thom_astro
Josef Aschbacher is new ESA Director General
5 photos
As of today, 1 March 2021, ESA has a new Director General: Dr Josef Aschbacher, who has taken up duty at ESA Headquarters in Paris, France.
The ESA Council appointed Dr Aschbacher in December 2020...
SEOSAT-Ingenio
13 photos
SEOSAT–Ingenio carries a state-of-the-art dual camera that has the ability to image Earth’s land with a resolution of 2.5 m. By imaging Earth’s land in remarkable detail, the satellite will...
Sentinel-6
19 photos
With global mean sea level rising because of climate change, Copernicus Sentinel-6 is the next radar altimetry reference mission to extend the legacy of sea-surface height measurements until at least...
Juice
109 photos
JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - is the first large-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. Planned for launch in 2022 and arrival at Jupiter in 2029, it will spend at least...
Solar Orbiter launch
9 photos
ESA’s new Sun exploring spacecraft Solar Orbiter launched atop the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020....
Beyond landing and return to Cologne
15 photos
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano returned from his second long-duration mission to the International Space Station, known as ‘Beyond’, on 6 February 2020.
Later the same day Luca returned to...
Luca Parmitano / Beyond Mission
103 photos
Luca will be going Beyond when he returns to the International Space Station in 2019 as part of Expedition 60/61, alongside Andrew Morgan of NASA and Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos.
Solar Orbiter
101 photos
Solar Orbiter is a mission dedicated to solar and heliospheric physics. It was selected as the first medium-class mission of ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Programme. The programme outlines key...
Spacebus Neo satellite launch
5 photos
Space19+
33 photos
Space19+ brings the opportunity to direct Europe’s ‘next generation’ ambitions in space, and address the challenges facing not only the European space sector but also European society as a...
ESA Open Day Spain 2019
6 photos
Thousands flocked to ESAC, ESA's astronomy heart nearby Madrid, Spain on Saturday 19 October to celebrate the ESA Open Day.
People got the chance to meet astronaut Thomas Reiter, space experts and...
ESA Open Day NL 2019
37 photos
Thousands flocked to ESTEC, ESA's technical heart in the Netherlands on Sunday 6 October to celebrate the ESA Open Day.
People got the chance to meet astronauts, space experts and saw behind the...
UK Space Conference 2019
8 photos
Solar eclipse 2019
7 photos
Images of the South American total solar eclipse of 2 July 2019 captured by the ESA-CESAR team from ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile
Le Bourget 2019
17 photos
Heracles
6 photos
ESA is working with the Canadian and Japanese space agencies to prepare the Heracles robotic mission to the Moon in the mid-to-late-2020s. Using the space Gateway as a halfway point, a robotic rover...
9th EU/ESA Space Council
4 photos
The 9th high-level EU/ESA Space Council, with the theme 'Space as an enabler', took place on Tuesday, 28 May 2019, in the Lex Building of the European Commission in Brussels. Brussels. Ministers...
Ten things you didn't know about Mars
10 photos
Earth Return Orbiter
2 photos
Bringing samples from Mars is the logical next step for robotic exploration and it will require multiple missions that will be more challenging and more advanced than any robotic missions before....
Columbus Cartoon
24 photos
A series of cartoons about Europe's Columbus laboratory depicting life on Columbus spiked with humour to celebrate its 10 years in orbit.
Horizons arrival
6 photos
ɸ-week cartoons
20 photos
With satellites delivering a mindboggling amount of data about our planet along with the availability of the latest digital technologies, there are countless opportunities for innovation. ESA’s...
Intermediate Ministerial Meeting (IMM18)
7 photos
ESA’s Ministers in charge of space activities convened at an Intermediate Ministerial Meeting (IMM18) at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain on...
BepiColombo
151 photos
ESA Open Day 2018
17 photos
On 7 October 2018 we opened the doors of ESTEC, our technical heart in the Netherlands, and welcomed more than 7600 people on a day full of activities including meet-and-greet with astronauts, tours...
69th International Astronautical Congress
14 photos
The International Astronautical Congress (IAC) consists of a scientific conference program and a space exhibition. It is the one time of the year opportunity when about 4,000 space actors from all...
Alexander Gerst / Horizons
106 photos
Alexander is the first of ESA’s class of 2009 astronauts to fly into space for a second time, launching on Soyuz MS-09 together with NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Russian spacecraft...
Horizons liftoff
18 photos
At 11:12 GMT (13:12 CEST), 6 June 2018, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst was launched into space alongside NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Roscosmos commander Sergei Prokopyev in the Soyuz...
PANGAEA 2018
34 photos
Aeolus Launch
15 photos
ESA’s Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite lifted off on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 22 August at 21:20 GMT (23:20 CEST). Using revolutionary laser technology,...
Aeolus
30 photos
Farnborough International Airshow 2018
25 photos
ESA joined the UK Space Agency and UK space industry at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow taken place between the 16 and 20 of July 2018
50 years of ESEC
15 photos
50 years of the European space Security and Education Centre (ESEC) at Redu in Belgium, was marked on 3 July 2018.
Testing MTG's FCI Instrument
4 photos
A test model of the main imager for Europe’s forthcoming Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite being prepared for simulated space testing.
Official Opening ISU 2018 Space Studies Program
18 photos
Official opening of the International Space University’s Space Studies Program on 25 June 2018, at ESA in the Netherlands. The opening ceremony was attended by HM the King of the Netherlands.
Asteroid Day 2018
1 photo
Asteroid Day is an annual global movement to increase public awareness of potential asteroid impacts with Earth, and the importance of guarding against them. It was co-founded in 2015 by Brian May,...
Horizons roll out
20 photos
Rollout to the launch pad of the Soyuz rocket with the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft inside, 4 June 2018. The spacecraft will launch ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst into space alongside NASA astronaut Serena...
Horizons news conference
8 photos
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst’s news conference took place at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany on 17 April 2018. Over 135 media attended the event.
Alexander will be launched in...
Astronauts Through Time
14 photos
An art project by Sharon Ziljstra
Graffiti without gravity
23 photos
The European Space Agency and the Hague Street Art joined forces for a unique crossover project between (street) art and space exploration.
Galileo 23-26
8 photos
Galileo is Europe’s own global navigation satellite system, providing a highly accurate, guaranteed global positioning service under civilian control. Currently providing Initial Services, Galileo...
Second Mars Sample Return conference
6 photos
The second International Mars Sample Return Conference took place on April 25-27, 2018 in Berlin, Germany.
Participants from all over the planet gathered to explore mission concepts to bring samples...
ILA 2018
25 photos
ESA exhibited in the ‘Space for Earth’ pavilion at ILA, the Berlin Air and Space Show on 25–29 April 2018.
50 years of ESTEC
10 photos
On 3 April 1968, the new European Space Technology and Research Centre, ESTEC, was inaugurated by TRH Princess Beatrix and Prince Claus of the Netherlands. In the five decades since, ESTEC has grown...
CHEOPS
59 photos
CHEOPS - CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite - is the first mission dedicated to searching for exoplanetary transits by performing ultra-high precision photometry on bright stars already known to host...
Human Spaceflight and Robotic Explorations Image...
249 photos
The Images of the Week for ESA's Human Spaceflight and Robotic Explorations programme.
Galileo 19-22
10 photos
Liftoff of Ariane 5 Flight VA240 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana took place at 18:36 UTC (19:36 CET, 15:36 local time) on Tuesday 12 December 2017, carrying Galileo satellites...
Sentinel-5P
98 photos
Sentinel-5 Precursor – also known as Sentinel-5P – is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. The satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a...
ESTEC Open Day 2017
79 photos
8 October 2017. Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Infographics
248 photos
Paolo Nespoli / Vita mission
161 photos
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is set to join Expeditions 52 and 53 on the International Space Station for five months. He will launch on a Soyuz spacecraft in July 2017.
Le Bourget 2017
162 photos
Images from ESA's space pavilion at the Paris Air and Space Show 2017.
Landing Thomas Pesquet/Proxima
43 photos
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet landed on the steppe of Kazakhstan today with Russian commander Oleg Novitsky in their Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft after six months in space. Touchdown was at 14:10 GMT after...
The Moon, as seen by SMART-1
8 photos
SMART-1 was an ESA mission and the first European spacecraft to travel to and orbit around the Moon, launched on 27 September 2003. The mission ended on 3 September 2006 by a controlled lunar...
Sentinel2Go launch event
78 photos
ESOC, Darmstadt, 6-7 March 2017.
Sentinel-2B launch
17 photos
MetOp-C
9 photos
Proba-V satellite images of European countries
22 photos
Launched on 7 May 2013, Proba-V is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.
To celebrate the...
Matthias Maurer
67 photos
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer
SmallGEO
12 photos
ESA Ministerial Council 2016
20 photos
King Philippe of Belgium visit to ESTEC
13 photos
King Philippe of Belgium visits ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, ESA's technical heart, on 29 November 2016
Galileo 15-18
37 photos
Launch of Galileo satellites 15, 16, 17 and 18 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 17 November 2016.
CometLanding - September 2016
15 photos
Images from the Rosetta spacecraft’s final descent on 30 September
Farnborough Airshow 2016
9 photos
Landing Tim Peake/Principia
17 photos
ESA astronaut Tim Peake returned to Earth on 18 June 2016 after spending six months on the International Space Station.
LISA Pathfinder media briefing
9 photos
Images from the media briefing on the first results from ESA’s LISA Pathfinder mission, held at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre on 7 June 2016
ILA 2016
30 photos
ESA exhibited in the ‘Space for Earth’ pavilion at ILA, the Berlin Air and Space Show on 1–4 June 2016.
Couture in Orbit fashion show
6 photos
ESA’s Couture in Orbit project to look at the future of fashion using space materials and technology came to a close with a fashion show at London’s Science Museum on 25 May.
Space Station 360
8 photos
Explore the Space Station on your mobile phone or virtual reality headset.
ExoMars
208 photos
The ExoMars programme will investigate the Martian environment and demonstrate new technologies paving the way for a future Mars sample return mission in the 2020's.
Timothy Peake / Principia
163 photos
ESA astronaut Timothy Peake is currently on board the International Space Station for the Principia mission. He launched in December 2015 and will spend six months living and working on the ISS. More...
Orion and the European Service Module
132 photos
Orion is NASA’s next spacecraft to send humans into space. It is designed to send astronauts farther into space than ever before, beyond the Moon to asteroids and even Mars.
The European Service...
Asteroid Day 2016 - Press conference
5 photos
Asteroid Day, a global movement to increase knowledge and awareness of asteroids, announced its plans for 2016 from a press conference hosted at ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands and...
LISA Pathfinder
54 photos
LISA Pathfinder will help to open up a completely new observational window into the gravitational Universe, proving new technologies needed to measure gravitational waves in space.
Sentinel-3
67 photos
Sentinel-3 will measure sea-surface topography, sea and land-surface temperature, and ocean and land-surface colour, in support of ocean and weather forecasting systems.
Sentinel-2
104 photos
The pair of Sentinel-2 satellites will routinely deliver high-resolution optical images globally, providing enhanced continuity of SPOT- and Landsat-type data.
Sentinel-1
174 photos
The Sentinel-1 mission is a polar-orbiting satellite system for the continuation of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) operational applications.
Irish Taoiseach visits ESTEC
8 photos
Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny visits ESA's ESTEC technical centre on 6 January 2016.
TEDxESA
18 photos
The inaugural TEDxESA event took place at the ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, on 11 November 2015.
Image credit: ESA/Sarah Jane Muirhead, CC BY NC ND IGO 3.0
Earth from Space
874 photos, 3 videos
More images of Earth from Space: www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Sets/Earth_observation_image_of...
Technology image of the week
363 photos
ESA Science
479 photos, 9 videos
The best of ESA's Science images.
Space Science Image of the Week
368 photos, 7 videos
The Image of the Week for ESA's Space Science programme.
Hubble Space Telescope
626 photos
The Hubble Space Telescope is a collaboration between ESA and NASA. It's a long-term, space-based observatory. The observations are carried out in visible, infrared and ultraviolet light.
For more...
Year at a comet - Rosetta
44 photos
Celebrating Rosetta’s first year at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko with a calendar of NavCam images
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Navcam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
ESTEC Open Day 2015
31 photos
Some 8865 members of the public made the trip to ESA's technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, on Sunday 4 October
Futura tour of Italy - Milan
11 photos
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov are touring Samantha’s home country of Italy after their mission on the International Space Station.
EU Commissioner Bieńkowska tours ESTEC
5 photos
On 21 September 2015 ESA's ESTEC technical centre was honoured with a visit from Elżbieta Bieńkowska, EU Commissioner for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and Small–Medium...
German Aerospace Day 2015 at EAC
14 photos
The European Astronaut Centre in Cologne was open to visitors during German Aerospace Day 2015 on 20 September.
iriss - landing & return to Cologne
31 photos
Soyuz TMA-16M landed in the Kazakh steppe at 00:51 UTC on 12 September 2015, bringing the 10-day iriss mission to an end. Later the same day Andreas was welcomed to Cologne, Germany, where he spent...
iriss - inflight
15 photos
Images from ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen taken during his iriss mission to the International Space Station. 1-12 September 2015
iriss - launch
17 photos
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander Sergei Volkov and Aidyn Aimbetov were launched into space on 2 September at 04:38 GMT (06:38 CEST) from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
The launch marks...
iriss - launch day preparations
35 photos
Preparations for launch for the Soyuz TMA-18M crew, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov and Roscosmos spacecraft commander Sergei Volkov .
Galileo 9 & 10
20 photos
iriss - Preflight State Commission and press...
18 photos
Rollout Soyuz TMA-18M
22 photos
The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft is rolled out by train, on 31 August 2015, from the MIK 112 integration facility to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad 1, in Kazakhstan.
Contract signature Ariane 6 and Vega C
6 photos
ESA signed contracts for the development of the Ariane 6 new‑generation launcher, its launch base and the Vega C evolution of the current ESA small launcher, on 12 August 2015.
Le Bourget 2015
83 photos
The 51st International Paris Air & Space Show, Le Bourget, opens its doors on 15 June. ESA’s exhibition pavilion sits between the full-size models of the Ariane 1 and Ariane 5 launchers....
Landing Soyuz TMA-15M
17 photos
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, NASA astronaut Terry Virts and Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov landed safely on 11 June 2015 in the Kazakh steppe after a three-hour ride in their Soyuz...
Galileo 7 & 8 preparations
14 photos
On 27 March 2015, at 21:46 UTC/22:46 CET, a Soyuz rocket will launch the seventh and eighth Galileo satellites from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
These are the third and fourth...
Solar eclipse 2015
4 photos
#Hubble25
7 photos
Images released to celebrate 25 years since the launch of Hubble on 24 April 1990.
Details: www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/04/Hubble_25_withou...
Edgar Martins
4 photos
Portuguese-born photographer Edgar Martins collaborated closely with ESA to produce a comprehensive photographic survey of the Agency’s various facilities around the globe, together with those of...
spaceinvader
37 photos
These space invaders have been spotted not only in the Space Station but also in ESA establishments all over Europe.
HM King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands...
11 photos
16 December 2014
A year of celebrations marking half a century of European cooperation in space concluded at ESA’s largest establishment – the ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the...
Inauguration of the ‘Space For Our Future’...
5 photos
Inauguration of the ‘Space For Our Future’ exhibition, created by ESA and the European Commission, on 28 October 2014, at the Berlaymont building in Brussels, headquarters of the European...
Ministerial Council 2014
15 photos
Rosetta comet landing event
41 photos
Images from the event at ESOC, Darmstadt, marking the Rosetta and Philae landing event on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Rosetta comet arrival event
66 photos
Images from the event at ESOC, Darmstadt, marking ESA's Rosetta spacecraft arrival at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Wakeuprosetta - behind the scenes
6 photos
Behind the scenes at the wake-up Rosetta event held at ESOC, Darmstadt, on 20 January 2014.
Wakeuprosetta event, ESOC, 20 January 2014
33 photos
After 31 months in deep space hibernation it is time to wake-up ESA's comet chaser Rosetta. These photos are from an event held at ESOC, in Darmstadt, Germany to mark the wake-up at 10:00 UT/11:00...
Rosetta
607 photos, 1 video
Rosetta is at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, making the most detailed study of a comet ever attempted. It is following the comet on its journey through the inner Solar System, measuring the...
Samantha Cristoforetti
187 photos
Born in Milan, Italy, on 26 April 1977 Samantha Cristoforetti is an avid reader with a passion for science and technology, and an equal interest in humanities. She enjoys learning foreign languages...
Alexander Gerst / Blue Dot
115 photos
Alexander Gerst is an ESA - European Space Agency astronaut. He is a European of German nationality, a geophysicist, volcanologist and explorer. On his "Blue Dot" mission to the...
Luca Parmitano / Volare
64 photos
Volare is the name of ESA’s six-month mission to the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is the first of ESA’s new generation of astronauts to fly into space.
The Italian...
ESTEC Open Day 2014
12 photos
Galileo FOC
31 photos
On 21 August, at 12:31 UTC/14:31 CEST, a Soyuz rocket will launch the fifth and six Galileo satellites from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
These are the first ‘Full Operational...
Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle - IXV
65 photos
ILA 2014
18 photos
Highlights from the ‘Space for Earth’ space pavilion at ILA, the Berlin Air and Space Show, May 2014.
DG's press briefing 2014
6 photos
On Friday, 17 January, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain met the press at the traditional start-of-year gathering, providing an overview of ESA’s achievements in 2013 and the challenges...
Venus Express
3 photos
Gaia
51 photos, 2 videos
ATV-5 launch campaign
92 photos
Swarm
28 photos
Nightpod
34 photos
To help astronauts take better pictures, ESA developed a motorised tripod. Called NightPod, this device compensates for the motion of the Space Station by tracking single points on Earth...
Best of ESA
130 photos
For more information :
www.esa.int
ESTEC Open Day 2013
8 photos
#SocialSpace at German Aerospace Day 2013
15 photos
Living Planet Symposium 2013
9 photos
Selected highlights from the Living Planet Symposium 2013 held in Edinburgh, Scotland, 9-13 September. For the full set of images see our ESA events photostream:...
ESA CAVES
54 photos
CAVES stands for Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills. The three-week course prepares astronauts to work safely and effectively in multicultural...
Alphasat
12 photos
Le Bourget 2013
8 photos
ESA will be present at the 50th Paris Air & Space Show at Le Bourget with a pavilion at its traditional and central place, near the full-size Ariane 5 and Ariane 1 mockups.
The ESA pavilion will...
ATV-4 Launch campaign
38 photos
Vega VV02 and Proba-V launch campaign
18 photos
Concordia
46 photos
Soyuz VS03 liftoff
45 photos
12 October 2012:
The third and fourth satellites of Europe’s Galileo global navigation satellite system were lofted into orbit on 12 October from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. They join...
ESA astronaut André Kuipers returns to Earth
10 photos
ESA astronaut André Kuipers, together with his Russian Commander Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, has landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 08:14 GMT (10:14 CEST) in Soyuz...
André Kuipers / PromISSe
115 photos
A selection of images showing highlights from ESA astronaut André Kuipers' mission to the ISS, PromISSe.
ILA Berlin Air and Space Show, 2012
19 photos
ESA, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the DLR German Aerospace Center and the German Aerospace Industries Association will be exhibiting in the ‘Space for Earth’...
Farnborough airshow 2012
32 photos
ESA is joining other space agencies and industry in a dedicated Space Zone at the major Farnborough international airshow in the UK for seven days from Monday, 9 July 2012.
For further information...
MSG-3 Launch campaign
20 photos
MSG-3, the third Meteosat Second Generation satellite is prepared for its launch on 5 July 2012
Vega VV01 launch campaign
62 photos
Vega, ESA’s new launch vehicle, is ready to operate alongside the Ariane 5 and Soyuz launchers after a successful qualification flight this morning from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French...
From ESA with love
7 photos
A selection of heart themed images from ESA's extensive multimedia gallery, to share on this Valentine's day.
ISS and Endeavour
33 photos
Images of the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour, flying at an altitude of approximately 350 km, taken by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20...
ATV-3 Launch Campaign
82 photos
Ariane 5 VA205 and ATV Edoardo Amaldi lifted off from Europe's Spaceport, Kourou, French Guiana on 23 March 2012.
For further information, please visit:
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ATV/index.html
Soyuz - Galileo launch preparations
24 photos
Final testing of the Soyuz launch site at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana began on 29 April with a simulated launch campaign that will end on 5 May 2011.
This dry run ensures that the Soyuz...
Paolo Nespoli / MagISStra
219 photos
ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli's MagISStra mission to the International Space Station
Paolo Nespoli - MagISStra (3D images)
10 photos
ESA Astronaut Paolo Nespoli's MagISStra mission to the International Space Station.
3D anaglyph pictures best viewed with red/cyan glasses.
EVA training 2010 at EAC
6 photos
Astronaut Survival Training
12 photos
At the end of June 2010, ESA’s six astronaut candidates were thrown out of a helicopter, left to drift at sea and were abandoned under the hot Mediterranean sun – but luckily they were...
Mars Express
456 photos, 10 videos
On 3 March 2010, Mars Express made the closest-ever flyby of Phobos, at 21:55 CET at a distance of just 67 km.
More information:
www.esa.int/marsexpress
Mars Webcam
5 photos
Images acquired by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) on board Mars Express. More information in the VMC Blog: www.esa.int/vmc
OasISS launch
10 photos
ESA astronaut Frank De Winne launches to the to the International Space Station for the six-month OasISS mission. The launch is planned for 12:34 CEST on 27 May 2009 from the Baikonur Kosmodrome,...
Launch of Herschel and Planck
15 photos
Selection of photos and TV stills of the launch of Ariane 5 ECA flight V188, carrying ESA's Herschel and Planck satellites, liftoff at 15:12:02 CEST, 14 May 2009.
Herschel and Planck at Kourou
68 photos
Herschel and Planck launch activity at ESA's spaceport, the Guiana Space Centre, Kourou, French Guiana.
For more information:
www.esa.int/SPECIALS/herschelplanck/index.html
Herschel and Planck launch at ESOC
28 photos
Activities at European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany for the Herschel and Planck launch on 14 May 2009.
For more information:
www.esa.int/operations
CryoSat-2 launch event
66 photos
CryoSat-2 launch event, April 8th, at ESA/ESOC Darmstadt
Farnborough airshow 2010
51 photos
ESA, together with the UK Space Agency, the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and industry, will be exhibiting in a dedicated Space Zone at the Farnborough International Air Show, 19–25 July 2010.
The...
ILA 2010
56 photos
Madrid Book Fair, June 2010
30 photos
ESA Campaign, Madrid Underground, June 2010
8 photos
ESA Human Spaceflight Teachers Workshop
160 photos
It was three days of listening, learning, brainstrorming and networking for forty secondary school teachers from all ESA Member States, when they participated the first ESA Human Spaceflight Teachers...
Living Planet Symposium 2010
31 photos
Images from ESA's Living Planet Symposium in Bergen, Norway, 28 June to 2 July. Image of the day, participants and more.
Live coverage at: www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Living_Planet_Symposium_2010/index.html
Inauguration of the European Space Astronomy...
29 photos
The inauguration of the European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid (Spain) was presided by their Royal Highness the Prince and Princess of Asturias
CryoSat-2 launch rehearsal
28 photos
Full rehearsal for CryoSat-2 launch held in the Main Control Room at ESA's European Space Operations Centre, 6 April 2010. Launch is set for 15:57 CEST, 8 April 2010.
Spacelab Pallet has new home in Lucerne
15 photos
An historic Spacelab Pallet was handed over to the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne on 5 March 2010. The Pallet, nick-named 'Elvis', was a critical component of the ESA/NASA Spacelab programme...
Create your Space
12 photos
The European Space Agency invites you to get inspiration from our images to create a work of art. Share your art with us and see how many “Likes” you can collect.
www.facebook.com/CreateYourSpace
André's PromISSe for Earth Hour
11 photos
ESA astronaut, André Kuipers observed Earth Hour 2012 from the International Space Station. During the time, he captured many shots of the Earth, in daylight and at night.
MetOp launch campaign
9 photos
ESA Astrophotography competition 2012
13 photos
ESA's Science Astrophotography competition 2012. For full details, please click here.