Image: Turning up the heat in ESA’s Astronaut Reserve Training

Week in images: 27-31 October 2025

Discover our week through the lens

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
OrbitsIQ Global, a Luxembourg-headquartered telecommunications company focused on integrating satellite and terrestrial connectivity for mobile assets, has acquired UNIO Enterprise, a Munich-based broadband connectivity provider that integrates space-based and ground networks, including 4G and 5G. Both firms will collaborate to advance seamless connectivity solutions for vehicles, planes, and bo

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Astronomers have captured a striking cloud of gas and dust shaped like a bat high above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal site in Chile. The cosmic bat was imaged by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), whose expansive field of view revealed a nebula spanning four full Moons. Located roughly 10,000 light-years away, this nebula lies between the southern constellations Circinus and Nor

Paris, France (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
GMV and the Real Betis professional soccer team have inaugurated a satellite tracking and collision prediction station at the Rafael Gordillo Sports Complex near Seville. This facility enhances Europe's space monitoring capabilities and positions Real Betis as the first soccer club with dedicated infrastructure for space sustainability. The installation is part of GMV's Focusear network, w

London, UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Xairos UK Ltd has launched Phase 2 of its quantum time transfer project supported by the European Space Agency's Navigation Innovation and Support Programme (NAVISP). Acting as prime contractor, Xairos leads a consortium with ViaSat and Heriot-Watt University to improve the precision and security of timing synchronization between terrestrial and satellite clocks using quantum technology. T

Image: Flickering flame: spooky spirits or serious science?

Image: To celebrate Halloween, we bring you these spooky sights of Lake Carnegie in Australia, captured from space by Copernicus Sentinel-2.

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What began with tragedy ended in triumph. This is the untold story of the European Space Agency’s pioneering 25-year Cluster mission to study how invisible solar storms impact Earth's environment.

Like a ship in a never-ending storm, Earth is bombarded by swarms of particles ejected from the Sun at supersonic speeds. Most of these solar wind particles are deflected by the magnetosphere and sail harmlessly by, but Earth’s shield is not bulletproof.

Since 2000, Cluster sailed the seas of the Sun and revealed the complexities of the Sun–Earth connection. After two-and-a-half incredibly successful decades in space, ESA took the decision

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2025
A supersolid is an unusual state of matter showing both crystal rigidity and frictionless flow, a paradox realized only in recent years within dipolar quantum gases. Researchers at the University of Innsbruck, led by Francesca Ferlaino, investigated how the solid and superfluid features of a supersolid behave when rotated. Using precisely controlled magnetic fields, the team induced rotation in