ESA - European Space Agency

Feb 17 2025 163 ep. 8 mins 2.4k

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The sounds of BepiColombo’s sixth flight past Mercury

Listen to the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft as it flew past Mercury on 8 January 2025. This sixth and final flyby used the little planet's gravity to steer the spacecraft on course for entering orbit around Mercury in 2026. What you can hear in the sonification soundtrack of this video are real spacecraft vibrations measured by the Italian Spring Accelerometer (ISA) instrument.

Cosmic Jingles: listen to Euclid’s image of a star nursery

Jan 16 2025 1 mins

ESA's Euclid space telescope is creating the largest 3D-map ever made of our Universe, to study the most mysterious cosmic components: dark matter and dark energy. While scanning the sky, Euclid snapped a breathtaking image of Messier 78, a vibrant nursery of star formation. This audio is a sonification of the image, where the twinkling sounds represent the galaxies and stars in t

Hear three years of solar fireworks

Dec 18 2024 1 mins

The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission has been keeping a close eye on the Sun for more than three years, witnessing it becoming increasingly active as it approaches the peak in the 11-year solar cycle. This audio is a sonification based on the detected flares and the spacecraft's distance to the Sun. This audio is a sonification based on the detected flares (metallic clinks) and the

Sentinel-1C Roll Call

Dec 04 2024 1 mins

The pre-launch roll call for the launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite at ESA's ESOC mission control centre

Proba-3 RollCall

Dec 04 2024 1 mins

Proba-3 RollCall by European Space Agency

Hera pre-launch Roll Call

Oct 07 2024 1 mins

Hera pre-launch Roll Call by European Space Agency

Sentinel-2C RollCall

Sep 04 2024 1 mins

All stations reporting in at the European Space Agency's European Spacecraft Operations Centre prior to the launch of the EU Copernicus Sentinel-2C Earth observation satellite on 5 September 2024.

EarthCARE RollCall

EarthCARE Operations Director, Jose Morales, completes the final GO/NO GO RollCall before ESA's cloud and aerosol mission is launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 29 May 2024. Mission Control is GO for launch.

The sound of the wind from space

Jul 14 2023 28 mins

ESA’s Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite was launched in August 2018 on a trailblazing mission to show how profiling Earth’s winds from space can improve weather forecasts and climate models. Marking the end of Aeolus’ remarkable mission, ESA worked with composer Jamie Perera to create a woodwind piece from data that spanned the lifetime of the satellite’s life in orbit around

Euclid RollCall

Euclid Operations Director, Andreas Rudolph, completes the final GO/NO GO RollCall before ESA's cosmic detective is launched from Cape Canaveral on 1 July, to discover the secrets of the dark Universe. Mission Control is GO for launch.