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  • Juice returns for a lunar-Earth flyby ESA · 29 Jul 2024 ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is coming back to Earth.
  • ESA blasts off at Gamescom ESA · 29 Jul 2024 Calling all space dreamers and game developers! ESA is back at Gamescom, the world's biggest video game event, kicking off in Cologne from 21 to 25 August. Our stand is in the careers area of Koelnmesse in Hall 10.2, so...
  • Hubble Images a Classic Spiral NASA · 26 Jul 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image treats viewers to a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 that lies 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor. Several other galaxi...
  • FIA 2024 - Day 5 ESA · 26 Jul 2024 ESA's stand at the Farnborough International Airshow 2024
  • Hubble Images a Classic Spiral NASA · 26 Jul 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image treats viewers to a wonderfully detailed snapshot of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430 that lies 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor. Several other galaxi...
  • ESA's stand at the Farnborough International Airshow 2024 ESA · 25 Jul 2024 ESA's stand at the Farnborough International Airshow 2024
  • From Concordia to the Moon ESA · 25 Jul 2024 Concordia is a research station in Antarctica that places you farther away from humankind than even the International Space Station. Every year, ESA sponsors a medical doctor to spend a year, or "winterover," at Concordi...
  • Make the most of ESA’s Industry Space Days 2024 ESA · 25 Jul 2024 Participants of ESA’s Industry Space Days (ISD 2024) share insights and tips on how to make the most of this space technology business event on 18–19 September at ESA-ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
  • Webb images new, cold exoplanet 12 light-years away ESA · 24 Jul 2024 An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have directly imaged an exoplanet roughly 12 light-years from Earth. While there were hints that the planet existed, it had not been...
  • EarthCARE’s multispectral imager puts clouds into context ESA · 24 Jul 2024 Launched less than two months ago, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has already returned images from two of its four instruments. Now, it has also delivered the first images from its multispectral imager, showcasing various typ...
  • YPSat witnesses ISTSat-1 & 3Cat-4 CubeSats deployment from Ariane 6 ESA · 24 Jul 2024 Video returned from the ESA Young Professionals Satellite payload, YPSat, attached to the upper stage of the inaugural Ariane 6 rocket, launched on 9 July 2024. This clip shows two cubesats deployment into orbit from the...
  • Hera spacecraft trio to fly safe with inter-linked radio ESA · 24 Jul 2024 ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence involves not just one spacecraft but three: two shoebox-sized CubeSats will fly up to a few dozen kilometres away from their mothership around the Didymos binary asteroid system....
  • ESA stations support three Moon missions in 2024 ESA · 20 Jul 2024 Happy International Moon Day!
  • ESA supports work on Apophis mission SpaceNews · 20 Jul 2024 The European Space Agency will allow a proposed mission to the asteroid Apophis to proceed to a next stage of development to keep it on schedule even though it is not yet fully funded.
  • ESA Gets Go Ahead to Begin Work on Apophis Mission SpacePolicyOnline.com · 19 Jul 2024 To the delight of planetary defense experts, ESA is beginning work on a probe to visit the asteroid Apophis before it reaches Earth in 2029. Apophis will not impact Earth,
  • ESA Space Environment Report 2024 ESA · 19 Jul 2024 Space Debris
  • ESA Explores Crewed Mission Capabilities for Ariane 6 Rocket European Spaceflight · 19 Jul 2024 The European Space Agency has awarded Arianespace a contract to explore potential options for enabling crewed missions to be launched aboard the Ariane 6 rocket. In an interview with SpaceNews, ESA director of space tran...
  • Hubble Studies a Potential Galactic Merger NASA · 19 Jul 2024 This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 5238, located 14.5 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. Its unexciting, blob-like appearance seems to rese...
  • Preparing for Juice’s daring double flyby ESA · 18 Jul 2024 Next month, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will carry out the first combined lunar-Earth flyby. Preparations are underway at ESA mission control for this highly precise manoeuvre, which will harness the gravita...
  • ESA gears up for the Farnborough International Airshow ESA · 18 Jul 2024 The Farnborough International Airshow is set to return for its 76th edition from 22 to 26 July 2024, and ESA will be there to showcase the agency’s latest achievements and to highlight its next steps and future vision fo...
  • Zero-G testing on Europe’s flattest floor ESA · 17 Jul 2024 A student team testing a new approach to satellite propulsion came to the flattest floor in Europe – based at ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands – which is used to reproduce the experience of weightless free...
  • Satnav enables medical and emergency response ESA · 17 Jul 2024 Satellite navigation is not just about travel directions; its applications extend to search and rescue operations, agriculture, autonomous vehicles, sports and perhaps surprisingly, even health. ESA's NAVISP programme su...
  • Double trouble: Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm ESA · 17 Jul 2024 Launched in December 2013, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft is on a mission to map the locations and motions of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way with extreme precision.
  • ESA Targets 2031 for First Argonaut Lunar Lander Mission European Spaceflight · 17 Jul 2024 In a call for Phase A/B1 development of its Argonaut lunar lander, the European Space Agency revealed that it is targeting 2031 for the lander’s first mission to the Moon’s surface. Funding for the development of the Arg...
  • Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis ESA · 16 Jul 2024 30 years ago, on 16 July 1994, astronomers watched in awe as the first of many pieces of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet slammed into Jupiter with incredible force. The event sparked intense interest in the field of planetary...
  • ESA Announces Ramses Mission to Study Asteroid’s Close Flyby of Earth European Spaceflight · 16 Jul 2024 The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the commencement of preparatory work on Ramses, the agency’s planetary defence mission. The Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses) is the latest mission of ESA’s Spa...
  • ESA astronaut class of 2022: Astro Chat with Alexander Gerst ESA · 15 Jul 2024 ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst, an experienced spaceflyer, spacewalker, and former ISS commander, shares insights into his role as head of astronaut operations at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre. Tune in as he talks with...
  • Themis Reusable Booster Demonstrator Hop Tests Delayed Once Again European Spaceflight · 15 Jul 2024 The initial hop tests of the ArianeGroup-developed, ESA-funded Themis reusable booster demonstrator have slipped once again. The first is now expected no earlier than 2025. In a May 2024 presentation given at the Interna...
  • Vivid Webb portrait of interacting galaxies Penguin and Egg ESA · 12 Jul 2024 A duo of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142 commemorates the second science anniversary of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
  • Vivid portrait of interacting galaxies marks Webb’s second anniversary ESA · 12 Jul 2024 A duo of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142 commemorates the second science anniversary of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Their ongoing interaction was set in motion between 25 and 75 million years ago,...
  • ESA Mars Earth Return Orbiter Passes Key Milestone European Spaceflight · 12 Jul 2024 The European Space Agency announced on 5 July that its Earth Return Orbiter had passed a key milestone with the completion of its critical design review. ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) is the agency’s primary contribut...
  • YPSat’s view from Ariane 6 ESA · 11 Jul 2024 If there had been an astronaut aboard the historic first launch of Europe’s Ariane 6 launcher, this is what they would have seen: images and videos from key phases of the flight were captured by the YPSat payload, a proj...
  • YPSat: the view from Ariane 6 ESA · 11 Jul 2024 If there had been an astronaut aboard the historic first launch of Europe’s Ariane 6 launcher, this is what they would have seen: images and videos from key phases of the flight were captured by the YPSat payload, a proj...
  • NASA CubeSat Launches as Rideshare on ESA’s First Ariane 6 Rocket NASA · 10 Jul 2024 NASA launched CURIE (CubeSat Radio Interferometry Experiment) as a rideshare payload on the inaugural flight of ESA’s (European Space Agency) Ariane 6 rocket, which launched at 4 p.m. GFT on July 9 from Europe’s Spacepor...
  • Hubble finds evidence for rare black hole in Omega Centauri ESA · 10 Jul 2024 An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spanning two decades to detect seven fast-moving stars in the innermost region of Omega Centauri, the largest an...
  • Ariane 6 inaugural flight press conference ESA · 10 Jul 2024 Replay of the press conference held in Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana with ESA, ArianeGroup, CNES and Arianespace representatives providing updates on the first mission of Ariane 6.
  • ESA Approves “European Launcher” Definition Ahead of Ariane 6 Debut European Spaceflight · 9 Jul 2024 The European Space Agency’s member states have adopted a resolution that outlines what it considers to be a “European launch service.” Over the last two weeks, Arianespace head of public affairs Charlotte Lang, CNES chai...
  • The Young Professional Satellite - From Theory to Reality (episode 2) ESA · 8 Jul 2024 In the second episode of this docu series, we take a closer look into what it took to build ESA’s Young Professional Satellite (YPSat). YPSat’s mission objectives are to capture the key moments of Ariane 6’s inaugural fl...
  • Call for ideas on navigation demonstrators and technologies ESA · 8 Jul 2024 Do you want to help shape the future of European satellite navigation? ESA is issuing an open call via OSIP for companies and researchers to help identify future navigation demonstrators and disruptive technologies that...
  • Highlights from ESA’s first open day in the UK ESA · 8 Jul 2024 On Saturday 29 June, thousands of visitors made their way to ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT), as part of the very first ESA open day to be held in the UK.

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