ESA Archives Portal

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…

Alongside our activities opening new document collections, the Archives team continues to digitise the historical picture collections held by the European Centre for Space Records, opening images…

Did you know that 9 June is International Archives Day? This date was chosen in 2007 to commemorate the date on which the International Council for Archives was created, under the auspices of…

Since the launch of this website in January, it has been a busy winter of digitisation activities for the ESA Archives team. Now spring is here we see the results and are delighted to conclude the…

The launch of this website has allowed us to make the historical picture collections held by the European Centre for Space Records accessible publicly, for the first time. This is not just the…

In 2022, the European Centre for Space Records, one of the homes of the ESA Historical Archives, marked its first twenty years. The publication of this website coincides with this milestone,…