Lightcurve Films for ESA

This presentation was given on 6 February 2025 to the engineering team at Thales Alenia Space in Italy, who are designing and building the Envision spacecraft. Planetary scientist Thomas Widemann from the Paris Observatory / Université PSL in ...

Meet Envision. Europe’s next mission to Venus. Planned for launch in 2031. Envision will study Venus from its core to its upper atmosphere to reveal more about the planet’s history, geological activity, and climate. It will help us understand w...

Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study how Earth responds to the solar wind and solar storms. At the European Space Agency’s technical heart in the Netherlands, engineers have taken Smile through the final ste...

Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study space weather and the interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic environment. At the European Space Agency’s technical heart in the Netherlands, engineers ha...

Smile is the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study space weather and the interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s environment. Unique about Smile is that it wil...

Smile is a brand-new space mission currently in the making. It will study how Earth responds to the solar wind and solar storms. At the European Space Agency’s technical heart in the Netherlands, engineers have spent the last four months carryi...

Planck Science is the third of a set of three educational films (see http://www.lightcurvefilms.com/beyond-the-red/) about the new European Space Agency’s science missions Herschel and Planck, recently launched. In Planck Science astrophysicist Vi...

Short Waves, Long Waves is the first of a set of three educational films about the new European Space Agency's science missions Herschel and Planck, recently launched. In Short Waves, Long Waves Dominique Proust, astrophysicist at the Paris Observ...

Herschel Science is the second of a set of three educational films (see http://www.lightcurvefilms.com/beyond-the-red/) about the new European Space Agency’s science missions Herschel and Planck, recently launched. In Herschel Science astrophysici...