ESA Archives Portal

The ESA Archives exist in two different physical sites in Italy today: the European Centre for Space Records (ECSR) at ESRIN, Frascati, which houses technical documentation from ESA projects and…

As we embark on ESA’s fiftieth year, we are pleased to open the collection of photographs from 1979 – a year marked by one of the first major triumphs for ESA with the inaugural launch of Ariane,…

Throughout 2024 the ESA Archives has been marking the 60th anniversary of the creation of ESA’s forerunners, ELDO and ESRO, with news articles and related content on this portal, and openings of…

This month we are joining our colleagues in the US as they celebrate #AskAnArchivist Day on 16 October, with our own European version! Come with us behind the scenes as we talk to the archivists…

The digitisation of another year of our historical picture collections has just been completed and pictures from 1978 are now open in the ESA Archives’…

Today we are celebrating the first anniversary of this website! We take a quick look back for a review of 2023 and recap of the material and collections that are currently available online in our…

At the very end of 2023 the Archives team put the finishing touches to the digitisation of another year in our historical picture collections. As a result, we are delighted to start this new year…

Last month’s celebrations of the 40th anniversary of Spacelab, featured a sticker from the Spacelab-1 mission as the November Object of the Month…

Next up in our series reviewing the tools of the analogue world for digital natives is microfiche and microfilm, the flat sheets or rolls of microfilm used by institutions throughout the twentieth…

A key aspect of professional development for archivists (and more generally anyone working in conservation or preservation) is keeping up to date with the constant evolution of the tools they need…

We have just opened the third collection in our ongoing series of ESA publications and you can now browse copies of the ESA Brochures, issued from 1979 to 2001 in our…

How can we reconstruct history without material? Our June Object of the Month on the ESRO-1B satellite (at the bottom of our homepage) touched on…