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Cebreros transmitting the Blue Danube Waltz

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ESA transmits the Blue Danube Waltz into deep space

04/06/2025 1931 views 30 likes

ispace's RESILIENCE lander and TENACIOUS micro rover on the Moon

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ESA supports Moon mission carrying first European rover

03/06/2025 5726 views 70 likes

Waltz Into Space Event Poster

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Waltzing celebration for half a century of European satelli…

26/05/2025 1550 views 22 likes

Mars Express

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Mars Express updates software, potentially extending spacec…

16/05/2025 1667 views 24 likes

ESA's Biomass Calibration Transponder in New Norcia, Australia

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Biomass, an oversized football and the Australian outback

15/05/2025 821 views 17 likes

Biomass model in ESA's Main Control Room

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Biomass completes a relay race of a LEOP

09/05/2025 1339 views 27 likes

Biomass takes to the skies

Biomass launched to count forest carbon

29/04/2025 15799 views 130 likes

Vega-C fairing release revealing Biomass

Watch Biomass launch live

24/04/2025 21379 views 66 likes

Simulations ongoing for Biomass launch

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Final preparations for Biomass operations

23/04/2025 1479 views 17 likes

Gaia observes the Milky Way

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Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end

27/03/2025 41855 views 141 likes

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

25/03/2025 3027 views 40 likes

Cartoon Hera made using LEGO® bricks, designed by Frans Snik

Hera’s incredible adventures in brick building

13/03/2025 2213 views 31 likes

Sir Brian May and the rest of Hera's science team see Mars image arrive

Hera asteroid mission spies Mars’s Deimos moon

13/03/2025 21859 views 135 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Watch live: Images from Hera’s Mars flyby

10/03/2025 25917 views 116 likes

Solar Orbiter Venus flyby

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Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus

18/02/2025 7298 views 66 likes

New Norcia antenna completes one year powered by the Sun

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Downlinking satellite data from space to the cloud

22/01/2025 1285 views 11 likes

Snowy Malargüe

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Malargüe: A satellite dish best served cold

17/01/2025 2811 views 66 likes

ISRO Gaganyaan crew module

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ESA to support Indian human spaceflight missions

12/12/2024 3843 views 54 likes

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Open-to-use SMILE antenna wins hertz and minds

22/11/2024 1182 views 11 likes

Hera fires its thrusters

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Hera burns towards Mars

08/11/2024 5157 views 65 likes

CubeSat Deep Space Deployers in Hera spacecraft

Hera asteroid mission’s CubeSat passengers signal home

28/10/2024 4628 views 60 likes

Members of the Hera operations team on launch day

Hera takes flight: Didymos, here we come

10/10/2024 4518 views 54 likes

Lifting the dish at ESA's newest deep space antenna

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Uplifting news! ESA crowns new deep space antenna in Austra…

02/10/2024 4316 views 48 likes

Final data captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite

Sentinel-1B journeys back to Earth

23/09/2024 4817 views 61 likes

Sentinel-2C model in ESOC's Main Control Room

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A smooth start to life in orbit for Sentinel-2C

10/09/2024 2366 views 40 likes

Cluster satellite reenters Earth's atmosphere

Science & Exploration

Goodnight, Cluster: brilliant end to trailblazing mission

09/09/2024 10949 views 53 likes

Mission control GO for Sentinel-2C launch

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Sentinel-2C operators complete final rehearsals

03/09/2024 2712 views 34 likes

BepiColombo Mercury flyby

Science & Exploration

Fourth Mercury flyby begins BepiColombo’s new trajectory

02/09/2024 14484 views 66 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Science & Exploration

Cluster mission set to end with reentry over South Pacific

22/08/2024 5719 views 45 likes

Juice waves Earth goodbye once again

Science & Exploration

Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

21/08/2024 40528 views 110 likes

Hera glides past Didymos to Dimorphos

Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science

31/07/2024 4113 views 51 likes

Hera inter-satellite link with Juventas CubeSat

Hera spacecraft trio to fly safe with inter-linked radio

24/07/2024 1915 views 3 likes

ESA Kourou communicates with IM-1 at the Moon

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ESA stations support three Moon missions in 2024

20/07/2024 1887 views 10 likes

Juice flies by the Moon

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Preparing for Juice’s daring double flyby

18/07/2024 3164 views 41 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

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Double trouble: Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm

17/07/2024 24077 views 181 likes

Santa Maria station

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Tracking Ariane 6 as it soars over the Azores

04/07/2024 5785 views 46 likes

Hera's control team visits the spacecraft inside its cleanroom

Countdown to Hera: launch campaign begins at ESOC

27/06/2024 3060 views 24 likes

Hera and CubeSats in Maxwell chamber

Hera and its CubeSats speak with mission control

13/06/2024 2817 views 12 likes

EarthCARE: to understand how clouds and aerosols affect Earth's radiation balance

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EarthCARE on cloud nine after smooth start to mission

05/06/2024 2343 views 20 likes

OPS-SAT's mission is complete

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Mission complete for ESA’s OPS-SAT flying laboratory

04/06/2024 2045 views 15 likes

Hera approaches Dimorphos

Virtual flying lessons for Hera asteroid mission

29/05/2024 3156 views 9 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

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Glitch on BepiColombo: work ongoing to restore spacecraft t…

15/05/2024 13019 views 105 likes

ESA's new spacecraft control facility in Germany

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The spacecraft control centre of the future

14/05/2024 5763 views 41 likes

Mission control during EarthCARE launch preparations

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Mission control ready for EarthCARE despite disruption

06/05/2024 2532 views 27 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars

25/04/2024 4649 views 36 likes

Juice flyby of Callisto (artist’s impression)

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Juice aces Callisto flyby test

11/04/2024 3339 views 43 likes

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Solar Orbiter prepared for ‘worst-case scenario’

02/04/2024 3558 views 34 likes

Juventas CubeSat deployment

Radar journey to centre of Hera’s asteroid with Juventas Cu…

27/03/2024 3629 views 10 likes

Science & Exploration

Euclid's sight restored

26/03/2024 7209 views 59 likes

Euclid artist impression

Science & Exploration

Operations begin to de-ice Euclid’s vision

19/03/2024 23691 views 50 likes

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