Tag: ESA

These women are doing their part for science: By lying in bed for a week.

ESA recently released video footage of parachute drop tests for its ExoMars rover, showing how the spacecraft will be slowed as it approaches the red planet.

Jupiter has many oddities we’re still learning about, such as its strange X-rays auroras somewhat comparable to the northern lights here on Earth.

A new autonomous robot with “an elbow, shoulders, and even wrists” is heading to the International Space Station this month.

The European and Russian ExoMars rover is scheduled to travel to Mars in 2022, and agencies recently performed a high-altitude test of the rover’s parachute.

A Scandinavian company plans to launch the world’s first wooden satellite to bring attention to the use of renewable materials in space.

Venus is not an inviting place, but sending probes there could answer some long-standing questions. ESA has announced it will send a mission called EnVision.

The James Webb Space Telescope will not launch on October 31, as previously scheduled. Various concerns have pushed the launch date to November or December.

ESA wants to creating a network of satellites in orbit around the moon which could help with landing missions, navigating rovers, and communicating with Earth.

Check out this beautiful timelapse of the night sky shot at the European Space Agency’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America.