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Test firing at ESA's new Chemical Propulsion Laboratory
Black and white chequered pattern speckled with bright dots and streaks
ESA Impact April-June 2026
Digital twin of the LUNA analog facility
Deployment of Plato's Y-wings
Electrostatic capture technology developed by Adaptronics
A group of engineers celebrating receiving the first navigation signal from Celeste
Researcher inspecting a device in a laboratory
A silicon chip
From left to right: Dietmar Pilz, Robert Lindner, Jeanette Epps, Tommaso Ghidini and Advenit Makaya
3D-printed lens antenna at Jammertest
Students explore ESA's flat floor
Five of current ESA Graduate trainees working in ESA's Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality.
ESA's dark blue van parked in front of a large antenna
Skywalker team
Three solar prominence eruptions captured by ESA's Proba-3 mission
ESA's new Celeste satellites for satnav augmentation testing
3D model of ESA's Test Centre at ESTEC
Coronal mass ejection captured by Proba-2, Proba-3 and SOHO
Satellite model in a testing facility
Inspecting the first ever metal part 3D-printed in space
An essential building block for phased array antennas
Candle flame in microgravity
What farming on the Moon could look like
ESA's upcoming Henon CubeSat mission
PTB's reference blackbody in a vacuum chamber
The cavernous chamber of the Large Space Simulator
TU Delft student Dielof van Loon and his drone
Future of navigation R&D
ESA ESTEC at Leiden Canal Pride Parade 2024
One of the first images of Proba-3's artifical solar eclipse.
Micky the Space Cat resides at ESTEC
MicroCarb in preparation for its flight on Vega-C
Jorgen testing his four-legged robot Olympus at ESA's ORBIT facility
ESA's 7th Quantum Technology Conference 2025
Video taken by the YPSat-1 mission onboard Ariane 6 showing the rocket's rairing opening
TU Delft’s autonomous drone racing against a human pilot
Model of the International Space Station at ESA visitor centre Space Expo in Noordwijk, The Netherlands
AI-generated image depicting satellites orbiting Earth
A page from a brochure showing how satellite radiometers measure sea surface temperature
Flicking through our ESA Delivers brochure
ESA's new CubeSat testing facility
ESA's Advanced Concepts Team's ELOPE challenge
A floating platform circling a satellite model in ESA's Orbital Robotics Lab
A video showing a group of engineers working in a lab
ESTEC's parade float featuring a model of the Ariane 6 rocket covered with flowers
New antenna prototype tested in HERTZ, ESA's chamber without echoes
Logo of ESA's Open Discovery Ideas Channel
Gridded ion engine that will power ESA's HENON CubeSat
Proba-3 Occulter eclipsing Sun for Coronagraph spacecraft