ESA

8 missions

First spacecraft to orbit a comet. Its Philae lander bounced and landed on its side in a shadow, lim...

Creating the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way. Has measured positions of nearly 2 billion stars....

Mapping the dark universe by observing billions of galaxies. Investigating dark energy and dark matt...

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. Will study Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa for signs of habitability. Wil...

The first European mission to another planet, in orbit since December 2003. Its radar detected what ...

Mapped the afterglow of the Big Bang with record precision. Fixed the age of the universe at 13.8 bi...

Flew within 596 km of the nucleus of comet Halley in March 1986, the first close look at a comet. Wa...

The first European mission to Venus, in orbit from 2006 to 2014. Studied the runaway greenhouse atmo...