ESA - Operations - Archive

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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 6218 views 59 likes

Perspective view of Korolev crater

Enabling & Support

Space missions return to science

02/04/2020 7825 views 78 likes

The inner Solar System

Science & Exploration

ESA scales down science mission operations amid pandemic

24/03/2020 9458 views 62 likes

ESA Main Control Room, Darmstadt

Enabling & Support

Mission Control adjusts to coronavirus conditions

18/03/2020 5963 views 44 likes

Solar Orbiter boom and antenna deployments

Enabling & Support

Solar Orbiter braves challenging early days

14/02/2020 9154 views 143 likes

Science & Exploration

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

10/02/2020 11272 views 56 likes

Solar Orbiter

Enabling & Support

Here comes the Sun!

07/02/2020 4151 views 28 likes

ESA’s New Norcia deep space tracking station

Enabling & Support

First time controlling two spacecraft with one dish

05/02/2020 5646 views 47 likes

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

Enabling & Support

Flying solo

01/02/2020 8702 views 67 likes

Solar Orbiter facing the Sun close up

Enabling & Support

Warming up for the Sun

30/01/2020 4425 views 52 likes

Solar Orbiter

Science & Exploration

Orbiting the Sun together

23/12/2019 17939 views 114 likes

OPS-SAT in orbit

Enabling & Support

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

20/12/2019 2217 views 15 likes

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

Enabling & Support

Investing in 'space on Earth'

13/12/2019 1443 views 19 likes

Shoebox-sized OPS-SAT

Enabling & Support

Sandbox satellite to test operations innovations in space

13/12/2019 3640 views 34 likes

Enabling & Support

Calling radio amateurs: help find OPS-SAT!

12/12/2019 28147 views 103 likes

Only one chance to get this right

Enabling & Support

The truth behind The Burn

11/12/2019 2539 views 20 likes

Enabling & Support

Cleaning the dishes

27/11/2019 2601 views 30 likes

An artificial Proba-2 view of the solar north pole

A decade probing the Sun

04/11/2019 4740 views 68 likes

ESA Main Control Room, Darmstadt

Enabling & Support

European network of operations centres takes shape

25/10/2019 3037 views 23 likes

Gateway and Moon

Science & Exploration

Controlling robots across oceans and space – no magic requi…

02/10/2019 6240 views 88 likes

Plaskett and companion craters - AMIE mosaic

Enabling & Support

Follow live: Magically exploring ‘the Moon’ from afar

24/09/2019 5553 views 71 likes

Asteroid '2019 OK' observed moving against backdrop of stars

Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for mor…

02/08/2019 22958 views 180 likes

Orbiting lunar Gateway

Enabling & Support

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

18/07/2019 23387 views 245 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Enabling & Support

Gaia’s biggest operation since launch

15/07/2019 9852 views 144 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

Space agencies come together

14/06/2019 5765 views 95 likes

New team for New Norcia deep space antenna

Enabling & Support

New era for New Norcia deep space antenna

04/06/2019 7175 views 76 likes

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

Enabling & Support

ExoMars orbiter prepares for Rosalind Franklin

30/05/2019 7372 views 103 likes

Earth observation missions

Enabling & Support

Mission control 'saves science'

17/05/2019 5549 views 60 likes

Recognising sustainable behaviour

06/05/2019 12179 views 82 likes

Pinpointing Gaia from Earth

Science & Exploration

Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps

02/05/2019 6464 views 87 likes

The day the asteroid might hit

26/04/2019 36206 views 150 likes

Open Space Innovation Platform

Enabling & Support

ESA opening up to new ideas

12/04/2019 11126 views 79 likes

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

12/04/2019 10002 views 100 likes

BepiColombo in cruise configuration

Science & Exploration

BepiColombo is ready for its long cruise

05/04/2019 6481 views 98 likes

Simulating lunar surface operations

Enabling & Support

ESA boosts startup to the Moon

03/04/2019 4778 views 64 likes

Hiber CubeSat testing

Enabling & Support

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

02/04/2019 11556 views 94 likes

DLR-Bodenstation Weilheim

Enabling & Support

ESA and DLR in joint study to support deep space missions

02/04/2019 4857 views 56 likes

New Norcia antenna supports NASA's InSight lander on Mars

Science & Exploration

Mars calling

26/03/2019 11829 views 104 likes

SMILE antenna

Enabling & Support

ESA helps business fly in space

10/03/2019 3581 views 57 likes

ESA's space weather mission

Enabling & Support

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

05/03/2019 8431 views 81 likes

Restless star makes for stunning storm

Space weather kicks up a social storm

01/03/2019 8867 views 127 likes

Hera at Didymos

ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited

04/02/2019 15215 views 130 likes

ESA Columbus module

Hundreds of impacts crater ESA’s Columbus science laboratory

23/01/2019 7599 views 94 likes

Enabling & Support

Join the #AuroraHunters

17/01/2019 9802 views 82 likes

BepiColombo cruise configuration

Enabling & Support

BepiColombo’s first routine firing in space

18/12/2018 5934 views 110 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

Enabling & Support

BepiColombo now firing on all cylinders

05/12/2018 10560 views 141 likes

Galileos measure Einsteinian time dilation

Galileo satellites prove Einstein's Relativity Theory to hi…

04/12/2018 17989 views 150 likes

NASA's InSight lander operating on the surface of Mars

Enabling & Support

ESA lends a hand at Mars

23/11/2018 13568 views 111 likes

From pole to pole

Enabling & Support

Handing over MetOp-C

12/11/2018 4327 views 44 likes

MetOp-C liftoff

Europe’s third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into…

07/11/2018 6843 views 85 likes

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