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Illustration of the Spektr-RG spacecraft

Enabling & Support

ESA listens in on black hole mission

24/06/2020 1694 views 60 likes

Mission control celebrates successful splashdown

Enabling & Support

Space is hard - mission control after Apollo 13

17/04/2020 1913 views 48 likes

BepiColombo’s close-up of Earth during flyby

Science & Exploration

BepiColombo takes last snaps of Earth en route to Mercury

10/04/2020 29864 views 121 likes

BepiColombo Earth flyby

Science & Exploration

Spot BepiColombo during its ‘goodbye flyby’

03/04/2020 7406 views 57 likes

Earth and the Moon as seen by the selfie cameras on board of the Bepi Colombo spacecraft in early March 2020

Enabling & Support

Why is BepiColombo back?

03/04/2020 4774 views 56 likes

Perspective view of Korolev crater

Enabling & Support

Space missions return to science

02/04/2020 5512 views 70 likes

The inner Solar System

Science & Exploration

ESA scales down science mission operations amid pandemic

24/03/2020 7005 views 58 likes

ESA Main Control Room, Darmstadt

Enabling & Support

Mission Control adjusts to coronavirus conditions

18/03/2020 4228 views 41 likes

Solar Orbiter boom and antenna deployments

Enabling & Support

Solar Orbiter braves challenging early days

14/02/2020 7253 views 140 likes

Science & Exploration

Liftoff for Solar Orbiter, ESA’s mission to face the Sun up…

10/02/2020 8548 views 50 likes

Solar Orbiter

Enabling & Support

Here comes the Sun!

07/02/2020 2885 views 27 likes

ESA’s New Norcia deep space tracking station

Enabling & Support

First time controlling two spacecraft with one dish

05/02/2020 3578 views 45 likes

Solar Orbiter's orbit brings the Sun's poles into view

Enabling & Support

Flying solo

01/02/2020 5573 views 60 likes

Solar Orbiter facing the Sun close up

Enabling & Support

Warming up for the Sun

30/01/2020 3181 views 50 likes

Solar Orbiter

Science & Exploration

Orbiting the Sun together

23/12/2019 12619 views 111 likes

OPS-SAT in orbit

Enabling & Support

OPS-SAT in orbit: a stepping stone to smarter space operati…

20/12/2019 1219 views 13 likes

Behind every successful mission, investment in 'space on Earth'

Enabling & Support

Investing in 'space on Earth'

13/12/2019 651 views 16 likes

Shoebox-sized OPS-SAT

Enabling & Support

Sandbox satellite to test operations innovations in space

13/12/2019 2270 views 33 likes

Enabling & Support

Calling radio amateurs: help find OPS-SAT!

12/12/2019 25501 views 101 likes

Only one chance to get this right

Enabling & Support

The truth behind The Burn

11/12/2019 1702 views 19 likes

Enabling & Support

Cleaning the dishes

27/11/2019 1634 views 29 likes

An artificial Proba-2 view of the solar north pole

Safety & Security

A decade probing the Sun

04/11/2019 3217 views 64 likes

ESA Main Control Room, Darmstadt

Enabling & Support

European network of operations centres takes shape

25/10/2019 2186 views 22 likes

Gateway and Moon

Science & Exploration

Controlling robots across oceans and space – no magic requi…

02/10/2019 4527 views 82 likes

Plaskett and companion craters - AMIE mosaic

Enabling & Support

Follow live: Magically exploring ‘the Moon’ from afar

24/09/2019 4309 views 70 likes

Asteroid '2019 OK' observed moving against backdrop of stars

Safety & Security

Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for mor…

02/08/2019 19800 views 179 likes

Orbiting lunar Gateway

Enabling & Support

Angelic halo orbit chosen for humankind’s first lunar outpo…

18/07/2019 14159 views 217 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Enabling & Support

Gaia’s biggest operation since launch

15/07/2019 7640 views 143 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

Space agencies come together

14/06/2019 4310 views 91 likes

New team for New Norcia deep space antenna

Enabling & Support

New era for New Norcia deep space antenna

04/06/2019 3772 views 64 likes

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

Enabling & Support

ExoMars orbiter prepares for Rosalind Franklin

30/05/2019 4740 views 101 likes

Earth observation missions

Enabling & Support

Mission control 'saves science'

17/05/2019 4203 views 59 likes

Safety & Security

Recognising sustainable behaviour

06/05/2019 6826 views 80 likes

Pinpointing Gaia from Earth

Science & Exploration

Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps

02/05/2019 4865 views 86 likes

Safety & Security

The day the asteroid might hit

26/04/2019 21079 views 143 likes

Open Space Innovation Platform

Enabling & Support

ESA opening up to new ideas

12/04/2019 8276 views 72 likes

Safety & Security

Rocket break-up provides rare chance to test debris formati…

12/04/2019 7944 views 97 likes

BepiColombo in cruise configuration

Science & Exploration

BepiColombo is ready for its long cruise

05/04/2019 5145 views 97 likes

Simulating lunar surface operations

Enabling & Support

ESA boosts startup to the Moon

03/04/2019 3186 views 63 likes

Hiber CubeSat testing

Enabling & Support

ESA’s ‘CubeSat central’ for smaller missions into space

02/04/2019 7756 views 85 likes

DLR-Bodenstation Weilheim

Enabling & Support

ESA and DLR in joint study to support deep space missions

02/04/2019 3241 views 54 likes

New Norcia antenna supports NASA's InSight lander on Mars

Science & Exploration

Mars calling

26/03/2019 9637 views 102 likes

SMILE antenna

Enabling & Support

ESA helps business fly in space

10/03/2019 2622 views 56 likes

Lagrange mission

Enabling & Support

ESA’s space weather mission to be protected against stormy …

05/03/2019 5939 views 79 likes

Restless star makes for stunning storm

Safety & Security

Space weather kicks up a social storm

01/03/2019 7798 views 124 likes

Hera at Didymos

Safety & Security

ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited

04/02/2019 11824 views 125 likes

ESA Columbus module

Safety & Security

Hundreds of impacts crater ESA’s Columbus science laboratory

23/01/2019 5921 views 91 likes

Enabling & Support

Join the #AuroraHunters

17/01/2019 8876 views 81 likes

BepiColombo cruise configuration

Enabling & Support

BepiColombo’s first routine firing in space

18/12/2018 4956 views 109 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

Enabling & Support

BepiColombo now firing on all cylinders

05/12/2018 8861 views 140 likes

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