ESA fired a ‘non-explosive actuator’ in stuck bracket of the ESA JUICE spacecraft's RIME antenna to jar in loose. Mission controllers have been trouble shooting the antenna deployment for 3 weeks.

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...

NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which was designed to study the large, gaseous planet Jupiter and its moons, first caught hints of ...

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

Paris, August 22, 2024, SPA -- The European Space Agency (ESA) announced yesterday in a press release that the JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) probe has achieved a remarkable milestone by passing ...

As for a follow-on mission? ESA is working on the GaiaNIR mission, an infrared version of Gaia which would be able to see through the dust in the Milky Way's disk to map many more stars and make a ...

Credit: ESA/Novespace WASHINGTON — In a first, a European astronaut with a physical disability has been medically cleared for missions to the International Space Station. The European Space ...

Credit: Thales Alenia Space TAMPA, Fla. — The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Thales Alenia Space a contract worth a total €367 million ($383 million) to lead the development of ...

Euclid, the ESA spacecraft launched in July 2023 designed to observe deep space in the hope of unlocking the mysteries of the universe, spotted its first strong gravitational lens as it set about ...