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ESA deploys new fully European ground-based atomic clock

07/09/2025 2065 views 20 likes

Over the summer 2025, ESA’s Ground Laser Transmitter, installed at the Kryoneri Observatory in Greece, has been the half of a optical communication demonstration campaign between Earth and NASA’s Psyche mission.

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ESA wraps up 300-million-kilometre optical communication ca…

27/08/2025 5080 views 47 likes

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Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus

25/08/2025 18823 views 105 likes

NASA's Psyche mission

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Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

10/07/2025 15589 views 92 likes

The Moon over ESA's Cebreros deep space antenna

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Safeguarding Europe’s role in Solar System Internet: First …

16/06/2025 2103 views 17 likes

Cebreros transmitting the Blue Danube Waltz

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ESA transmits the Blue Danube Waltz into deep space

04/06/2025 3430 views 31 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 8366 views 73 likes

ESA's Cyber Security Operations Centre

ESA inaugurates new Cyber Security Operations Centre

27/05/2025 4314 views 31 likes

Waltz Into Space Event Poster

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Waltzing celebration for half a century of European satelli…

26/05/2025 2696 views 23 likes

Mars Express

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Mars Express updates software, potentially extending spacec…

16/05/2025 2905 views 30 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 1842 views 20 likes

Biomass model in ESA's Main Control Room

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Biomass completes a relay race of a LEOP

09/05/2025 2236 views 30 likes

Biomass takes to the skies

Biomass launched to count forest carbon

29/04/2025 19531 views 137 likes

Vega-C fairing release revealing Biomass

Watch Biomass launch live

24/04/2025 22740 views 66 likes

Simulations ongoing for Biomass launch

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Final preparations for Biomass operations

23/04/2025 1912 views 18 likes

Gaia observes the Milky Way

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Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end

27/03/2025 46542 views 144 likes

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

25/03/2025 4515 views 40 likes

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

Hera’s incredible adventures in brick building

13/03/2025 3649 views 32 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 25050 views 140 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Watch live: Images from Hera’s Mars flyby

10/03/2025 28328 views 119 likes

Solar Orbiter Venus flyby

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Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus

18/02/2025 8575 views 67 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 2055 views 11 likes

Snowy Malargüe

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Malargüe: A satellite dish best served cold

17/01/2025 3337 views 66 likes

ISRO Gaganyaan crew module

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ESA to support Indian human spaceflight missions

12/12/2024 5306 views 57 likes

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Open-to-use SMILE antenna wins hertz and minds

22/11/2024 1394 views 11 likes

Hera fires its thrusters

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Hera burns towards Mars

08/11/2024 5737 views 65 likes

CubeSat Deep Space Deployers in Hera spacecraft

Hera asteroid mission’s CubeSat passengers signal home

28/10/2024 5578 views 62 likes

Members of the Hera operations team on launch day

Hera takes flight: Didymos, here we come

10/10/2024 5303 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 5344 views 50 likes

Final data captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite

Sentinel-1B journeys back to Earth

23/09/2024 5942 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 2588 views 40 likes

Cluster satellite reenters Earth's atmosphere

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Goodnight, Cluster: brilliant end to trailblazing mission

09/09/2024 12150 views 54 likes

Mission control GO for Sentinel-2C launch

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Sentinel-2C operators complete final rehearsals

03/09/2024 2929 views 34 likes

BepiColombo Mercury flyby

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Fourth Mercury flyby begins BepiColombo’s new trajectory

02/09/2024 16378 views 66 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

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Cluster mission set to end with reentry over South Pacific

22/08/2024 7044 views 46 likes

Juice waves Earth goodbye once again

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

21/08/2024 43981 views 111 likes

Hera glides past Didymos to Dimorphos

Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science

31/07/2024 4872 views 51 likes

Hera inter-satellite link with Juventas CubeSat

Hera spacecraft trio to fly safe with inter-linked radio

24/07/2024 2550 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 2367 views 10 likes

Juice flies by the Moon

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Preparing for Juice’s daring double flyby

18/07/2024 3534 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 25387 views 183 likes

Santa Maria station

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Tracking Ariane 6 as it soars over the Azores

04/07/2024 6478 views 49 likes

Hera's control team visits the spacecraft inside its cleanroom

Countdown to Hera: launch campaign begins at ESOC

27/06/2024 3597 views 24 likes

Hera and CubeSats in Maxwell chamber

Hera and its CubeSats speak with mission control

13/06/2024 3394 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 2662 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 3175 views 16 likes

Hera approaches Dimorphos

Virtual flying lessons for Hera asteroid mission

29/05/2024 3609 views 9 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

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Glitch on BepiColombo: work ongoing to restore spacecraft t…

15/05/2024 15280 views 108 likes

ESA's new spacecraft control facility in Germany

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The spacecraft control centre of the future

14/05/2024 6934 views 42 likes

Mission control during EarthCARE launch preparations

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Mission control ready for EarthCARE despite disruption

06/05/2024 2807 views 27 likes

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