
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.

The UK Ministry of Defence hosted eight maritime defence companies, including several small and medium-sized enterprises, on a UK Pavilion at the EuroNaval exhibition in Paris, held 3 to 6 November 2026, according to a government news story.

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.

British High Commissioner Matt Woods marked Remembrance Day at Commonwealth war graves in Limbe and launched a UK-NASLA partnership on land management during a four-day visit to Cameroon's South-West region.

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 UK Chief Veterinary Officer has ordered mandatory housing across England from 13 November 2026, alongside an England-wide Avian Influenza Prevention Zone, after rising highly pathogenic avian influenza confirmations in kept and wild birds.

The Regulator of Social Housing has given Bury Metropolitan Borough Council a C3 consumer grade after an inspection found serious failings in health and safety, tenant engagement and service information. The regulator also published stability checks for 19 landlords.

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.