During the night of 26 to 27 April the second Galileo satellite will be launched from Baikonur on top of a Soyuz rocket

Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle introduces a new generation of spacecraft, capable of entirely automated rendezvous and docking

ESA's Jules Verne ATV is now undergoing critical in-flight testing to ensure its sophisticated systems can safely guide it to an ISS rendezvous and docking

There are many moons in the Solar System, some of which are considered to be worlds in their own right, where life in some form might exist

Jules Verne ATV: ESA's re-supply, re-boost and refuse spacecraft

A new generation spacecraft offering key elements for future human spaceflight operations and automatic exploration.

An uninhabited but man-rated vehicle, ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle prepares the way for developing technologies on behalf of future space navigation.

The launch of ESA's Jules Verne ATV, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle for the International Space Station, is planned for early March. The ATVs are the largest and most powerful spacecraft ever built in Europe. They will be controlled from Toulouse where CNES, the French space agency, operates a dedicated control centre on behalf of ESA.

Water and air are two of the basic and fundamental elements that rule our planet, and the interaction between these two has a profound effect on climate.

The third and final Rosetta planetary fly-by will bring the spacecraft to Earth in November 2009 before it heads out on the final and longest leg of its ten-year journey to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, in 2014.