The ESA has announced that its Earth-observing satellite called Aeolus had to fire its thrusters to avoid a potential collision with one of the satellites in the SpaceX Starlink mega constellation.

ESA has been forced to reposition an Earth-observing satellite to avoid a potential collision with a member of SpaceX’s Starlink mega constellation. The avoidance maneuver took place just half an ...

ESA and 16 satellite industry leaders today signed a joint statement on their collaboration over ‘Satellite for 5G’ at the Paris Air and Space Show. ESA and the European space industry are joining ...

An out-of-control satellite has fallen to Earth, nearly three decades after it launched. The ERS-2 satellite, which served as an observation platform after launching in 1995, landed in the Pacific ...

Placing a satellite in orbit and keeping it there is a complicated move that requires a lot of planning and the use of mathematics few of us understand. In the decades that have passed since humans ...

The European Space Agency declared the death of its massive Earth-observing satellite Envisat Wednesday after a month of mysterious silence from the school bus-size spacecraft. Envisat is the world's ...

The accumulation of junk which is damaging to the environment isn’t only a problem here on Earth: it’s also a problem in space. Every year more and more discarded rocket stages, broken satellites, and ...

Researchers have successfully launched a new satellite that is designed to study the planet's forests and "provide unprecedented insight" into how those regions impact the Earth's carbon cycle, the ...

ESA has successfully launched its Cheops telescope on a mission to make detailed follow-up studies of distant exoplanets discovered by earlier space-faring telescopes, such as Kepler and TESS. The ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The European Space Agency (ESA) challenged cybersecurity experts in the space industry ecosystem to disrupt the operation of the agency's OPS-SAT demonstration nanosatellite.

ESA is continuing to investigate a problem with the power system on the Sentinel-1B satellite that has kept the radar imaging satellite out of service since late December. Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — The ...