Copernical Team
Safeguarding Europe’s role in Solar System Internet: First Stop, the Moon
ESA is taking a significant step towards realising the Solar System Internet (SSI) - an ambitious vision made possible through global collaboration. Earlier this year, ESA launched a concurrent design activity for the SSI Node-1 mission, the world’s first mission aimed at demonstrating a reliable, routine optical communication link from the Moon to Earth.
Image: Astronauts train for moonwalks in unusual places on Earth
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Engineers simulate lunar lighting for Artemis III moon landing
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ESA at Le Bourget 2025 - Day Two Highlights
The beginning of the industrial development of LISA was among the highlights for the European Space Agency on the second day of the International Paris Air Show.
ULA scrubs attempt at 2nd launch of year helping Amazon catch up to SpaceX
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Abrasive lunar dust is still less toxic than city pollution, study finds
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Watch live: Living Planet Symposium 2025
One of the biggest Earth observation conferences in the world will take place next week in Vienna. You can watch streamed plenary discussions and presentations each day on ESA Web TV.
Construction of ESA’s ambitious LISA mission begins
Today, the European Space Agency (ESA) and OHB System AG sealed their agreement to build ESA's Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, LISA. A bold scientific enterprise, the triple-spacecraft mission will be the first space-based observatory to study gravitational waves: ripples in spacetime caused by the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of supermassive black holes colliding and merging.
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A VISION FOR THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY China Shenzhou XX crew advances cognitive and biotech research aboard Tiangong
Imagine living and working hundreds of miles above Earth for more than 50 days. That has been the reality for China's Shenzhou XX crew-Chen Dong, Chen Zhongrui, and Wang Jie-currently aboard the Tiangong Space Station conducting vital scientific and medical research.
In a video released Monday by China Central Television (CCTV), the astronauts were shown carrying out a full slate of experi