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    Human spaceflight and operations image of the week: ESA astronaut Tim Peake tries out his pressure suit and seat for 15 December launch
    Talking climate

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    Discover more about the importance of soil moisture as an Essential Climate Variable to understand our changing world
    Galileo taking shape

    Galileo taking shape

    A new video shows Galileos 11 and 12 being readied for their 17 December launch, concluding a year when the number of satellites in orbit will have doubled
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    Artificial eclipse

    Space Science Image of the Week: SOHO is still going strong after two decades in space, sending back impressive images of the Sun and its varying bursts of activity
    Week In Images

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    Our week through the lens:
    30 November - 4 December 2015
    A new frontier

    A new frontier

    LISA Pathfinder is on its way to test the extraordinary technology needed to observe gravitational waves from space
    Launch – full replay

    Launch – full replay

    Watch LISA Pathfinder launch into low-Earth orbit, with commentary from experts at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou
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    Sentinel-2 moves on

    The story so far of the second Copernicus satellite and what it will do next
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    Space for climate

    While leaders from around the world meet at COP21 to reach an agreement on climate change, learn how satellites provide essential information about the health of our planet
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