The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Find out more about space activities in our 23 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.
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Image of the Vertical Support Beam (VSB) worksite on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02 taking during ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano's second spacewalk to service the International Space Station's cosmic ray detector.
Here, Luca cut tubes in preparation to install a new cooling system. He made them safe by capping them and will connect them to the instrument's new cooling system during the third spacewalk in the series.