
ESA Video Profiles the People Behind Galileo Navigation
A new ESA video, the second in a three-part series on the Galileo navigation project, focuses on the engineers, operators and programme leaders working across Europe to deliver its signal.
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A new ESA video, the second in a three-part series on the Galileo navigation project, focuses on the engineers, operators and programme leaders working across Europe to deliver its signal.

A Romanian-led team has tested a scaled lunar crane at ESA's Planetary Robotics Laboratory; the full-size design is intended to lift up to a tonne of cargo and set it down to six metres away.

The European Space Agency says its 2026 Open Days welcomed more than 23,000 visitors across six establishments, offering the public a look at Europe's space activities and the people behind its missions.

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk are scheduled to install and deploy the eighth and final IROSA on the station's 3B channel, completing power augmentation upgrades, NASA says.

Joshua Kutryk of the Canadian Space Agency and NASA's Anil Menon began a spacewalk at 8:36 a.m. EST to install and deploy the eighth and last IROSA on the station's 3B channel.

The European Space Agency's Advanced Concepts Team is inviting the space community to design an algorithm that matches a rover's ground-level panorama with an orbital map to pinpoint its position on the Moon.

ESA reports that player contributions from its IMPACT game were used to train an AI model that identified 3,192 potential craters in a small patch of the Moon's surface, though the model is still in development.

NASA reports that the seven Expedition 75 crew members wrapped up a busy week with spacewalk cleanup, biomedical assessments and orbital maintenance aboard the International Space Station.

A Pleiades Neo satellite view highlights Toulouse's terracotta rooftops, the Garonne river and landmarks including the stadium and Matabiau station, ESA says.

NASA's Expedition 75 crew studied antibiotic-resistant bacteria in microgravity, serviced spacesuits and prepared for cargo vehicle departures and arrivals aboard the International Space Station.

NASA published an image of CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk taken during an Oct. 29, 2026, spacewalk, with the International Space Station flying 267 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean.

A NASA technical bulletin describes two cases of thick-film chip resistor cracking found during environmental testing and offers guidelines to reduce flexure-related risk in ceramic components on printed circuit boards.