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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

Holes in the Sun

Operations image of the week: ESA's Proba-2 mission detects 'holes' in the Sun's corona, which emit high-speed solar wind that can affect satellites orbiting Earth

Keeping watch

ESA's future Lagrange mission will keep watch our our dynamic Sun, providing early warning of potentially harmful solar activity before it affects satellites in orbit or power grids on ground

Space Safety Industry Day

Join senior managers and programme experts for ESA's SSA & Space Safety Industry Day, 28 November 2018, Darmstadt, Germany

A home for the Flyeye

Operations image of the week: ESA’s plan to deploy a global network of asteroid-detecting telescopes gets closer to reality, as an agreement is signed with the Italian space agency to locate the first-ever Flyeye telescope in Sicily

BepiColombo goes array

On Saturday 27 October, about a week after BepiColombo's launch, the spacecraft successfully rotated its solar arrays to a position "off-pointed" by 54 degrees, at a rate of rotation of about 0.5 degrees per second...

Deep space ambassadors

EU ambassadors to Australia were recently shown around ESA's New Norcia tracking station. Peering up from the Western Australian desert, two antennas have captured some of the Agency's most beloved missions

Manoeuvring to Mercury

Operations image of the week: Estrack engineers Lucy Santana and Daniel Firre in ESA's Main Control Room during the launch of the ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury — BepiColombo

Space selfie

BepiColombo takes a snapshot of one of its deployed solar wings

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Handing over MetOp-C12 November 2018

Handing over MetOp-C12 November 2018 Mission teams at ESA’s ESOC operations centre in Germany handed control of the recently launched MetOp-C satellite to Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, on Saturday morning, just three days after lau...

Europe’s third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into orbit07 November 2018

Europe’s third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into orbit07 November 2018 The third MetOp satellite, MetOp-C, has been launched on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to continue the provision of data for weather forecasting from polar orbit.

ESA ready for weather mission liftoff05 November 2018

ESA ready for weather mission liftoff05 November 2018 Following months of simulation training, teams at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre have completed the all-important ‘dress rehearsal’ before MetOp-C’s liftoff on 7 November from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

This image, acquired by the LASCO C2 coronagraph instrument on the ESA-NASA SOHO spacecraft, was taken 8 January 2002 and shows a widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) as it blasts more than a billion tons of matter out into space at millions of kilometers per hour.

ESA rocks space weather05 November 2018

ESA rocks space weather05 November 2018 This week, to coincide with the fifteenth annual European Space Weather Week, ESA is celebrating the dynamic phenomenon of space weather.

Flight Operations Director Hervé Côme at ESOC

Counting down to MetOp-C31 October 2018

Counting down to MetOp-C31 October 2018 Teams at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Germany have been training for months in preparation for next week’s launch of MetOp-C – the last in the current series of meteorological satellites that provide high-quality data for weather forecast...

Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud25 October 2018

Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud25 October 2018 Since 13 September, ESA’s Mars Express has been observing the evolution of an elongated cloud formation hovering in the vicinity of the 20 km-high Arsia Mons volcano, close to the planet’s equator.

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