ESA - Operations - Archive

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Geostationary orbit

The current state of space debris

12/10/2020 57702 views 187 likes

From Earth to Mars

Science & Exploration

The way forward to Mars

01/10/2020 14321 views 94 likes

Infrared imaging of the impact crater

Industry starts work on Europe’s Hera planetary defence mis…

15/09/2020 8075 views 63 likes

Kiruna station

Enabling & Support

ESA’s polar station marks three decades satellite tracking

09/09/2020 3426 views 63 likes

Galileos measure Einsteinian time dilation

Enabling & Support

Adventures in time (and space)

13/07/2020 2590 views 42 likes

Illustration of the Spektr-RG spacecraft

Enabling & Support

ESA listens in on black hole mission

24/06/2020 2773 views 64 likes

Mission control celebrates successful splashdown

Enabling & Support

Space is hard - mission control after Apollo 13

17/04/2020 5498 views 52 likes

BepiColombo’s close-up of Earth during flyby

Science & Exploration

BepiColombo takes last snaps of Earth en route to Mercury

10/04/2020 33199 views 129 likes

BepiColombo Earth flyby

Science & Exploration

Spot BepiColombo during its ‘goodbye flyby’

03/04/2020 8684 views 58 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 6213 views 59 likes

Perspective view of Korolev crater

Enabling & Support

Space missions return to science

02/04/2020 7821 views 78 likes

The inner Solar System

Science & Exploration

ESA scales down science mission operations amid pandemic

24/03/2020 9454 views 62 likes

ESA Main Control Room, Darmstadt

Enabling & Support

Mission Control adjusts to coronavirus conditions

18/03/2020 5959 views 44 likes

Solar Orbiter boom and antenna deployments

Enabling & Support

Solar Orbiter braves challenging early days

14/02/2020 9149 views 143 likes

Science & Exploration

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

10/02/2020 11263 views 56 likes

Solar Orbiter

Enabling & Support

Here comes the Sun!

07/02/2020 4147 views 28 likes

ESA’s New Norcia deep space tracking station

Enabling & Support

First time controlling two spacecraft with one dish

05/02/2020 5641 views 47 likes

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

Enabling & Support

Flying solo

01/02/2020 8685 views 67 likes

Solar Orbiter facing the Sun close up

Enabling & Support

Warming up for the Sun

30/01/2020 4418 views 52 likes

Solar Orbiter

Science & Exploration

Orbiting the Sun together

23/12/2019 17923 views 114 likes

OPS-SAT in orbit

Enabling & Support

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

20/12/2019 2214 views 15 likes

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

Enabling & Support

Investing in 'space on Earth'

13/12/2019 1442 views 19 likes

Shoebox-sized OPS-SAT

Enabling & Support

Sandbox satellite to test operations innovations in space

13/12/2019 3633 views 34 likes

Enabling & Support

Calling radio amateurs: help find OPS-SAT!

12/12/2019 28131 views 103 likes

Only one chance to get this right

Enabling & Support

The truth behind The Burn

11/12/2019 2535 views 20 likes

Enabling & Support

Cleaning the dishes

27/11/2019 2598 views 30 likes

An artificial Proba-2 view of the solar north pole

A decade probing the Sun

04/11/2019 4735 views 68 likes

ESA Main Control Room, Darmstadt

Enabling & Support

European network of operations centres takes shape

25/10/2019 3034 views 23 likes

Gateway and Moon

Science & Exploration

Controlling robots across oceans and space – no magic requi…

02/10/2019 6237 views 88 likes

Plaskett and companion craters - AMIE mosaic

Enabling & Support

Follow live: Magically exploring ‘the Moon’ from afar

24/09/2019 5552 views 71 likes

Asteroid '2019 OK' observed moving against backdrop of stars

Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for mor…

02/08/2019 22944 views 180 likes

Orbiting lunar Gateway

Enabling & Support

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

18/07/2019 23366 views 245 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Enabling & Support

Gaia’s biggest operation since launch

15/07/2019 9835 views 144 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

Space agencies come together

14/06/2019 5761 views 95 likes

New team for New Norcia deep space antenna

Enabling & Support

New era for New Norcia deep space antenna

04/06/2019 7167 views 76 likes

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

Enabling & Support

ExoMars orbiter prepares for Rosalind Franklin

30/05/2019 7366 views 103 likes

Earth observation missions

Enabling & Support

Mission control 'saves science'

17/05/2019 5545 views 60 likes

Recognising sustainable behaviour

06/05/2019 12170 views 82 likes

Pinpointing Gaia from Earth

Science & Exploration

Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps

02/05/2019 6463 views 87 likes

The day the asteroid might hit

26/04/2019 36135 views 150 likes

Open Space Innovation Platform

Enabling & Support

ESA opening up to new ideas

12/04/2019 11124 views 79 likes

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

12/04/2019 9999 views 100 likes

BepiColombo in cruise configuration

Science & Exploration

BepiColombo is ready for its long cruise

05/04/2019 6475 views 98 likes

Simulating lunar surface operations

Enabling & Support

ESA boosts startup to the Moon

03/04/2019 4775 views 64 likes

Hiber CubeSat testing

Enabling & Support

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

02/04/2019 11545 views 94 likes

DLR-Bodenstation Weilheim

Enabling & Support

ESA and DLR in joint study to support deep space missions

02/04/2019 4845 views 56 likes

New Norcia antenna supports NASA's InSight lander on Mars

Science & Exploration

Mars calling

26/03/2019 11827 views 104 likes

SMILE antenna

Enabling & Support

ESA helps business fly in space

10/03/2019 3580 views 57 likes

ESA's space weather mission

Enabling & Support

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

05/03/2019 8423 views 81 likes

Restless star makes for stunning storm

Space weather kicks up a social storm

01/03/2019 8866 views 127 likes

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