Watch the replay of the Smile pre-launch media briefing. The briefing covered key details ahead of the mission’s launch aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Smile is a joint mission between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, designed to study how the solar wind interacts with Earth’s magnetic field.

For the first time in over 50 years, humans are going back to the Moon. This time, Europe is part of that journey.

Artemis II is the first crewed mission of NASA's Artemis programme and will bring four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the Moon and safely back to Earth.
What carries them on this voyage is the Orion spacecraft, powered by our European Service Module (ESM).

The ESM is built by 20 companies across Europe, led by prime contractor Airbus. The module will provide all the air and water needed by the crew throughout their journey, and

The new headquarters building is expected to be completed by 2031

While government agencies are increasingly turning to commercial contracting mechanisms for space capabilities, that does not necessarily translate to additional business opportunities for the companies offering them.

The company is scaling up production as it looks to build a 258-satellite network to provide positioning, navigation and timing services

China conducted a pair of launches in recent days, adding new satellites to the SuperView and CentiSpace low Earth orbit infrastructure constellations.