ESA - Space Engineering & Technology - Archive

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V-STARS team

Enabling & Support

Crawling, gripping and floating above ESA’s flat floor

26/01/2026 1097 views 23 likes

Friction stir welding machine at MT Aerospace

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Artificial intelligence in manufacturing rocket parts

21/01/2026 2479 views 60 likes

Preparing for fueling

Stay smart on space chemical compliance

20/01/2026 481 views 25 likes

Coronal mass ejection captured by Proba-2, Proba-3 and SOHO

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Proba-3 fills the solar observation gap

17/12/2025 2995 views 49 likes

Success for Europe's space technology at CM25

Enabling & Support

CM25: A historic step forward for Europe’s space technology…

28/11/2025 2487 views 29 likes

ESA and CAS teams working on the Smile mission

Science & Exploration

Smile approved for launch in spring 2026

20/11/2025 4471 views 43 likes

3D-printed space metal under microscope

Enabling & Support

A close-up look at the first metal part made in space

13/11/2025 3141 views 51 likes

Group picture at the Space Systems Engineering Training Course at ESEC – Galaxia

ESA and AfSA join forces for systems engineering training

04/11/2025 2459 views 35 likes

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ESA’s first stand-alone deep-space CubeSat Henon takes shape

29/10/2025 3605 views 42 likes

PTB’s facility: vacuum chamber hosting the new reference blackbody

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Ensuring the accuracy of ESA’s FORUM climate mission

09/10/2025 961 views 24 likes

The cavernous chamber of the Large Space Simulator

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Large Space Simulator gets a digital twin

06/10/2025 3506 views 44 likes

Dielof van Loon and his drone

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The dynamic drone-rover duo with a special bond

24/09/2025 2081 views 25 likes

Endothelial cells

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A cell’s-eye view of altered gravity and ageing

16/09/2025 1472 views 31 likes

Plato sailing to the Netherlands by boat

Science & Exploration

Plato arrived at ESA’s test centre by boat

11/09/2025 4509 views 48 likes

Over the summer 2025, ESA’s Ground Laser Transmitter, installed at the Kryoneri Observatory in Greece, has been the half of a optical communication demonstration campaign between Earth and NASA’s Psyche mission.

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ESA wraps up 300-million-kilometre optical communication ca…

27/08/2025 4522 views 46 likes

MicroCarb in preparation for its flight on Vega-C

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Europe’s new carbon-monitoring mission launches on Vega-C

28/07/2025 1553 views 16 likes

The four-legged robot Olympus on Europe’s flattest floor

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Four-legged robot’s first encounter with microgravity

17/07/2025 2652 views 21 likes

Smile sees the light

Science & Exploration

Smile passes gruelling set of tests

15/07/2025 3307 views 40 likes

NASA's Psyche mission

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Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

10/07/2025 14454 views 91 likes

TU Delft’s autonomous drone racing against a human pilot

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From ESA lab to a historic drone race win

08/07/2025 1767 views 36 likes

Innovative mission concepts enabled by disruptive computing paradigms

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Help ESA redefine the future of space computing

30/06/2025 2156 views 33 likes

Radio eye on forest mission Biomass

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R&D Successes Onboard Biomass

23/06/2025 1038 views 28 likes

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

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Proba-3’s first artificial solar eclipse

16/06/2025 37198 views 144 likes

Site of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (ESDI) at Park Innovaare in Villigen, Switzerland

Inauguration of the European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Cen…

27/05/2025 5372 views 46 likes

YPSat-2 thermal sub-system team

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About YPSat-2

26/05/2025 2000 views 28 likes

Fuelling Galileo-13

Navigate revisions to laws on hazardous chemicals in the EU

22/05/2025 1370 views 34 likes

Proba-3 Occulter eclipsing Sun for Coronagraph spacecraft

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Proba-3 achieves precise formation flying

08/05/2025 8897 views 74 likes

Advanced Concepts Team’s ELOPE challenge

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‘ELOPE’ with ESA’s moon landing guidance competition

01/05/2025 2023 views 31 likes

ESA was guest of honour at the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva 2025

Space technologies find new life on Earth

16/04/2025 2005 views 28 likes

Space Rider's ALEK in accoustic chamber

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Space Rider’s smart ALEK passes bumpy, noisy, shocking test…

10/04/2025 2714 views 42 likes

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher welcomes industry

ESA shares space proposals with industry

07/04/2025 3624 views 46 likes

Proba-3’s Coronagraph spacecraft captured by a camera onboard the Occulter spacecraft during the mission's first autonomous formation acquisition

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Proba-3's first autonomous formation flight

27/03/2025 5001 views 62 likes

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

25/03/2025 4142 views 40 likes

Sir Brian May and the rest of Hera's science team see Mars image arrive

Hera asteroid mission spies Mars’s Deimos moon

13/03/2025 23871 views 139 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Watch live: Images from Hera’s Mars flyby

10/03/2025 27971 views 119 likes

Perfect placement for Smile’s payload module

Science & Exploration

When two become one: engineers get Smile ready for launch

06/03/2025 2957 views 48 likes

Student teams explore ESTEC’s robotics labs

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Student teams explore ESA’s robotics labs

06/03/2025 1081 views 18 likes

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Growing Algae on Mars

06/03/2025 2583 views 35 likes

ESA engineering

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ESA seeks companies to commercialise inventions

26/02/2025 2288 views 33 likes

Proba-3’s ASPIICS coronagraph

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Proba-3 stargazing to warm up for corona observations

24/02/2025 2574 views 60 likes

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Developing an open-source tool for a European space-grade c…

20/02/2025 2674 views 32 likes

ESA Director General, Josef Aschbacher presented the Honourable Mention award to Helene Huby, Co-Founder and CEO at The Exploration Company

ESA Business Incubation Centres celebrate two decades of in…

14/02/2025 1913 views 21 likes

Timelapse of hydrogel swelling

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For astronaut radiation protection, just add water

06/02/2025 10428 views 103 likes

Space radiation

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Here there be radiation dragons

03/02/2025 2023 views 35 likes

Columbus laboratory

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Using AI for more reliable space missions

30/01/2025 3941 views 31 likes

17th European Space Conference - Small satellite companies awarded IOD/IOV rideshare contract

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Rideshare deal opens new path to space for European innovat…

28/01/2025 2043 views 15 likes

ESA Investor Network

ESA grows private investment in Europe’s space sector

28/01/2025 3324 views 20 likes

LightShip – ESA's martian tug

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Towards low-cost missions to Mars

21/01/2025 8570 views 68 likes

Proba-3 satellites

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Proba-3 becomes two: satellites separated

15/01/2025 3785 views 44 likes

Turning astronaut waste into fuel on Mars

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Producing fuel on Mars using astronaut wastewater

20/12/2024 2469 views 27 likes

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