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Juventas CubeSat deployment

Radar journey to centre of Hera’s asteroid with Juventas Cu…

27/03/2024 1486 views 9 likes

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

26/03/2024 121203 views 109 likes

Milani CubeSat deployed from Hera asteroid mission

Shoebox-sized Milani CubeSat joining Hera asteroid mission

14/03/2024 1695 views 17 likes

ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 140365 views 249 likes

Simulation of DART's impact on Dimorphos

DART impact might have reshaped Hera's target asteroid

26/02/2024 3863 views 42 likes

Largest flare of the current solar cycle as of 22 February 2024

Sun fires off largest flare of current solar cycle

23/02/2024 7381 views 42 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 29196 views 71 likes

ERS-2 reentering the atmosphere: 14:43 UTC, 14 January 2024

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 15979 views 56 likes

Chelyabinsk asteroid trail

10 years preparing for 'Armageddon'

08/02/2024 4087 views 44 likes

Asteroid 2024 BX1 tracked prior to impact

Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact

25/01/2024 5684 views 23 likes

Zero Debris key visual

ESA leads the way towards a Zero Debris future

14/12/2023 3748 views 61 likes

Milani Patch Contest terms and conditions

13/12/2023 970 views 1 likes

Milani patch contest

Design the patch for Hera’s Milani CubeSat

13/12/2023 4300 views 35 likes

Hera inside the LEAF acoustic chamber

Hera asteroid mission hears the noise

10/11/2023 4430 views 54 likes

The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 10251 views 57 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 18501 views 83 likes

Hera's Core Module lowered onto Propulsion Module

Hera asteroid spacecraft assembled

24/08/2023 4638 views 53 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

Objects detected in the vicinity of ClearSpace-1 debris rem…

22/08/2023 16232 views 91 likes

CLIP: Simulating Aeolus’s demise: a bird’s eye view

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 16034 views 80 likes

Juventas studies asteroid's internal structure

Hera’s mini-radar will probe asteroid’s heart

10/08/2023 4057 views 65 likes

Dimorphos asteroid seen by DART

Imagine walking on Hera’s asteroid

30/06/2023 3985 views 78 likes

Hera and its CubeSats at Didymos system

Precision deployer to put Hera’s CubeSats into asteroid orb…

29/06/2023 2473 views 40 likes

GRASS gravimeter on shaker

Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space

22/05/2023 5212 views 65 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination

What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out

24/04/2023 2580 views 43 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination

Eyes on Hera: Asteroid mission’s cameras ready

23/02/2023 6771 views 109 likes

NEOMIR - in-orbit asteroid spotter

NEOMIR: finding risky asteroids outshone by Sun

17/02/2023 11255 views 116 likes

Curious comet’s rare close approach

01/02/2023 34635 views 243 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

Christmas challenge: find mystery asteroid

09/12/2022 10384 views 52 likes

Aten asteroids in orbit, with ESA's orbit visualisation tool

ESA asteroid toolkit: how to guide

09/12/2022 6247 views 18 likes

Time-lapse photograph of 2022 WJ1 taken by astronomer Robert Weryk in Ontario, Canada

The sixth asteroid impact we saw coming

24/11/2022 56194 views 139 likes

European space sector commits: Earth is ours, we must cheri…

21/11/2022 7664 views 48 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising

12/10/2022 18075 views 65 likes

LICIACube image of asteroid ejecta

First kinetic impact test succeeds in shifting asteroid orb…

12/10/2022 5068 views 55 likes

DART's moment of impact

Hera team congratulates NASA asteroid impactors

27/09/2022 8067 views 85 likes

Plume ejects from Dimorphos as DART impacts

ESA to capture light from deflected asteroid’s new plume

26/09/2022 24455 views 79 likes

DART impacting asteroid

ESA deep space network tracks DART asteroid impact

20/09/2022 14388 views 104 likes

DART impacting Dimorphos

After NASA’s asteroid impact, ESA’s Hera comes next

01/09/2022 13882 views 101 likes

Aurorae

Protecting Artemis and lunar explorers from space radiation

26/08/2022 7272 views 88 likes

Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthed

09/08/2022 6110 views 63 likes

Artist's view of Swarm

Swarm dodges collision during climb to escape Sun’s wrath

14/07/2022 26217 views 181 likes

A busy field of stars hide once-risky asteroid 2021 QM1

Impact in 2052 ruled out as ESA counts down to Asteroid Day

29/06/2022 43597 views 73 likes

GIF from ESA's

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2022

22/04/2022 32776 views 80 likes

Space in Response to Humanitarian Crises

Space in Response to Humanitarian Crises

13/04/2022 1437 views 2 likes

Space Safety & Security at ESA

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 9405 views 65 likes

Kleť Observatory sees asteroid 2022 EB5, 13 minutes before impact

Fifth asteroid ever discovered before impact

15/03/2022 19315 views 149 likes

Asteroid 2022 AE1 observed with the Calar Alto Schmidt telescope in Spain

The rise and fall of the riskiest asteroid in a decade

24/02/2022 75597 views 97 likes

New laser station lights the way to debris reduction

15/02/2022 9730 views 111 likes

Vigil warns Earth

Introducing ESA Vigil: Earth’s devoted solar defender

10/02/2022 8576 views 47 likes

The Moon

Incoming! Debris enroute to the Moon

02/02/2022 15069 views 130 likes

Asteroid 2020 XL5 has been confirmed as the second known Earth Trojan asteroid

Newly discovered asteroid just second of its kind

01/02/2022 8277 views 111 likes

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