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MetOp-C pre-launch Roll Call 07.11.2018 1:05

The live roll call for the MetOp-C mission control teams: all positions at ESOC report GO for launch less than one hour before liftoff.

BepiColombo final Rollcall 20.10.2018 0:36

The final go/no-go roll call of the BepiColombo flight control team: all positions at ESOC report GO for launch less than one hour before liftoff.

Aeolus final roll call 22.08.2018 1:13

The final go/no-go roll call of the Aeolus flight control team: all positions at ESOC report GO for launch less than one hour before launch.

Sentinel-3B final roll call 25.04.2018 1:03

Final go/no-go roll call of Sentinel-3B flight control team: all positions at ESOC report GO for launch at this time (less than an hour from launch)

Hear the lightning 11.04.2018 1:15

Electromagnetic waves travelling upward from a lightning strike undergo dispersion in the ionosphere. High frequencies travel faster and arrive before the longer waves, giving rise to a whistling tone from high to low recorded by our magnetometer. Credits ESA/CNES/Leti/IPGP/Swarm DISC

Jean-François Clervoy message for Columbus 10 year anniversary 07.02.2018 2:22

ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy's inspirational message to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Europe's space laboratory Columbus. One space lab, five spacecraft, 10 years of success. A decade ago, the Columbus laboratory set sail for humanity’s new world of space. Columbus houses as many disciplines as possible in a small volume, from astrobiology to solar science through metallurgy and psychol...

Sentinel-5P - GO/NOGO Roll Call 13.10.2017 1:15

The Sentinel-5P GO/NOGO roll call in the Main Control Room at ESOC, ESA's European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany. The roll call was conducted by Flight Director Pier Paolo Emanuelli approximately 47 minutes before lift off at 09:27:44 UTC (11:27:44 CEST), 13 October 2017. The 820-kg satellite will be launched on a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. Six families o...

Sputnik 1957 - history's first artificial signals from space 02.10.2017 0:04

History changed on 4 October 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball (58 cm across), weighed only 83.6 kg and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single e...

Soyuz ride into space 25.08.2017 3:15

On 28 May 2014, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev rocketed into space in a Soyuz spacecraft. This was their voyage - in audio. Strapped atop 274 tonnes of rocket propellants delivering 26 million horsepower, it took only six hours to reach their destination, the International Space Station ISS.

ISS spacewalk 24.03.2017 9:54

This is a 10-minute live audio excerpt of ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough conducting a ‘spacewalk’ outside the International Space Station on 24 March 2017. They installed a new computer, disconnected a docking adapter to allow its move to a new location and maintained the Station’s Dextre multipurpose robotic hand - among other tasks. Besides the voices of Thomas P...

International radio telescopes hear Huygens 14.01.2017 5:15

Extract from live video recorded on 14 January 2005 during the descent and landing of ESA's Huygens probe. In this clip, scientists have just been informed that a global network of radio telescopes had received signals from Huygens as it touched down on Saturn's moon Titan, the first indication that the descent had gone well. Scientists and mission controllers had to wait a bit longer, until 17:19...

Rosetta end of operations confirmation 30.09.2016 0:40

Spacecraft Operations Manager Sylvain Lodiot confirms loss of signal (LOS) and end of Rosetta operations at 13:19 CEST, 30 September 2016, via the voice loop in the Main Control Room at ESA's space operations centre, Darmstadt, Germany.

What does Rosetta mean to you? No. 5 Renske Van Den Berg, The Netherlands 29.09.2016 0:32