ESA highlights Smile aurora and EarthCARE aerosols in weekly image selection
ESA’s image selection highlights an auroral substorm, volcanic aerosols and a radar view of seas affected by Typhoon Surigae.
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ESA’s image selection highlights an auroral substorm, volcanic aerosols and a radar view of seas affected by Typhoon Surigae.
ESA says the astronaut spent a total of 19 hours and 42 minutes outside the International Space Station across three outings.
Captured south of Japan, the satellite image shows contrasting sea conditions beneath the storm’s clouds. ESA says Surigae has since weakened.
The Orionids are active, but clear skies will matter for UK viewers looking on Friday. The shower peaks later this month.
The European Space Agency plans to use the October congress in Türkiye to present its mission results and longer-term space priorities.
Two Americans, a Canadian and a Russian have left Florida on a SpaceX flight to the ISS for a long-duration mission.
ESA’s September round-up covers a Vega-C launch, a step towards Mercury for BepiColombo and a claimed European first for the Spectrum rocket.
EarthCARE data helped Australian forecasters check the height of an ash plume from Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano, according to the European Space Agency.
ESA says the joint European-Chinese Smile mission is ready for science operations, although stray light is still limiting its X-ray view towards Earth.
Mars’s northern spring brings a new year on 30 September, though a Martian year lasts nearly twice as long as one on Earth.
ESA has published a James Webb Space Telescope image in which a galaxy cluster acts as a gravitational lens, bringing much more distant galaxies into view.
Starship reached orbit and deployed 26 satellites, but SpaceX ended its planned 10-hour test flight early.
The two organisations say interference could affect the observations behind forecasts and early warnings as they release a new spectrum handbook.
The spacecraft passed 8,640 km above the Indian Ocean, using Earth’s gravity to change its course while saving propellant for Jupiter.
US agencies have announced funding and a regulatory change intended to expand alternatives to animal testing. The FDA rule will not ban animal studies.
ECO, Keystone and CryoRad are advancing to further study. ESA plans to choose one for Earth Explorer 12, with launch expected around 2036.
A newly published IRIDE satellite image shows Venice’s canals, boat trails and salt marshes. ESA says more satellites are due to join the Italian constellation on 1 October.
ESA is holding a creative competition to mark BepiColombo’s planned arrival at Mercury. One winner will be able to follow that milestone on 9 December from the control centre in Darmstadt.
The onboard computer for the Ramses asteroid mission has been switched on together with connected systems for the first time. This marks a step by the assembly team towards the planned launch in 2028, needed to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis around its flyby of Earth.
The European space probe Hera is expected to arrive in November 2026 at Dimorphos, the asteroid struck by NASA’s DART in 2022. The mission is intended to establish how much the collision changed the small celestial body.