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ESA's detection expertise

What's the difference between monitoring asteroids in space and debris in orbit? As part of ESA's Space Safety & Security activities, the Agency brings together experts in natural and artificial object detection

Replay available soon

On 22 January, watch the plenary and panel discussion from ESA's first-ever joint asteroid and debris detection conference 09:00 CET start

Exploiting synergies

ESA's first-ever joint technology conference will bring together two fundamental pillars of space safety and security: hunting asteroids and detecting space debris

The one that got away

Operations image of the week: High above the majestic 'Dirdle Door' rock formation in Dorset, comet 46P/Wirtanen hurries by – an alien rock formation once destined to be visited by ESA's Rosetta mission

Cool running

Operations image of the week: New cryogenically cooled hardware promises to improve data return from ESA's current and future deep-space missions

A record making year

The sun sets over an extraordinary year at ESA’s operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, which has seen a remarkable series of records achieved by the Agency

New ventures

Information and registration for the Future Gound Segments and Mission Operations industry workshop, Darmstadt, 17-18 January 2019

Feeding a giant

ESA's deep-space antenna in New Norcia, Western Australia, has now been powered by solar energy for over a year, in the first step towards creating a green network of eyes on the skies

Space weather 'piggyback'

Operations image of the week: An ESA-funded instrument is now in orbit on a South Korean satellite, helping boost Europe’s space weather information network

A message from Mars

With this radio, ESA's gas detecting spacecraft in orbit around Mars is waiting to catch signals from InSight, the latest inhabitant of the Red Planet, and then relay the data from this alien world back to Earth

Wary of solar hazards

ESA is working to make Europe more resilient to 'space weather' and its effects on really vital things we all use every day, like satellites and power grids

Discussing a hot topic

This week marks the biggest annual event in the space weather calender — European Space Weather Week. Find out what space weather is, its hazards, and what ESA is doing about it, in the latest from ESA Web TV

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