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ESA Open Day 2025 at ESOC - A group of visitors poses happily in front of an ESA sign during the Open Day event.

Wrapping up an unforgettable Open Day at ESOC

19/09/2025 618 views 6 likes

Save the date: ESA ESOC Open Day, 12 September 2025

30/06/2025 5265 views 131 likes

Artist impression of Euclid scanning the sky

Science & Exploration

Seeking Euclid's hidden stars: commissioning looks up

26/09/2023 12709 views 143 likes

Understanding Earth’s winds

Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission

29/07/2023 16800 views 138 likes

ESA's wind mission

Guiding Aeolus' safe reentry

10/07/2023 13482 views 192 likes

Juice flyby of Ganymede (artist’s impression)

Science & Exploration

Solving the RIME deployment mystery

06/07/2023 12184 views 156 likes

Juice’s wriggling RIME antenna

Science & Exploration

Work continues to deploy Juice RIME antenna

28/04/2023 34145 views 225 likes

UK Science Minister George Freeman in ESA's mission control room

Enabling & Support

ESA mission control builds UK connections

14/06/2022 1154 views 18 likes

Interact rover picking up geological sample

Enabling & Support

ESA’s force-feedback rover controlled from a nation away

12/10/2020 3025 views 56 likes

The inner Solar System

Science & Exploration

ESA scales down science mission operations amid pandemic

24/03/2020 9779 views 62 likes

Solar Orbiter

Science & Exploration

Orbiting the Sun together

23/12/2019 18751 views 114 likes

Reducing debris creation

Enabling & Support

AI challenged to stave off collisions in space

09/10/2019 8752 views 52 likes

Plaskett and companion craters - AMIE mosaic

Enabling & Support

Follow live: Magically exploring ‘the Moon’ from afar

24/09/2019 5797 views 71 likes

Orbiting lunar Gateway

Enabling & Support

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

18/07/2019 24860 views 247 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

Enabling & Support

Gaia’s biggest operation since launch

15/07/2019 10604 views 145 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

Space agencies come together

14/06/2019 6113 views 95 likes

New team for New Norcia deep space antenna

Enabling & Support

New era for New Norcia deep space antenna

04/06/2019 8028 views 78 likes

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

Enabling & Support

ExoMars orbiter prepares for Rosalind Franklin

30/05/2019 8157 views 103 likes

Pinpointing Gaia from Earth

Science & Exploration

Observing Gaia from Earth to improve its star maps

02/05/2019 7180 views 88 likes

The day the asteroid might hit

26/04/2019 41482 views 152 likes

Open Space Innovation Platform

Enabling & Support

ESA opening up to new ideas

12/04/2019 11432 views 79 likes

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

12/04/2019 10498 views 100 likes

BepiColombo in cruise configuration

Science & Exploration

BepiColombo is ready for its long cruise

05/04/2019 6799 views 98 likes

Simulating lunar surface operations

Enabling & Support

ESA boosts startup to the Moon

03/04/2019 5166 views 64 likes

Hiber CubeSat testing

Enabling & Support

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

02/04/2019 12284 views 94 likes

DLR-Bodenstation Weilheim

Enabling & Support

ESA and DLR in joint study to support deep space missions

02/04/2019 5433 views 56 likes

New Norcia antenna supports NASA's InSight lander on Mars

Science & Exploration

Mars calling

26/03/2019 12260 views 104 likes

Heavy but fast

Science & Exploration

ESA-FAIR’s first ever Radiation Summer School

25/03/2019 4835 views 10 likes

SMILE antenna

Enabling & Support

ESA helps business fly in space

10/03/2019 3861 views 57 likes

Hera at Didymos

ESA plans mission to smallest asteroid ever visited

04/02/2019 15891 views 130 likes

ESA Columbus module

Hundreds of impacts crater ESA’s Columbus science laboratory

23/01/2019 8170 views 96 likes

Enabling & Support

Join the #AuroraHunters

17/01/2019 10067 views 82 likes

ESA and DLR sign cooperation agreement

Space in Europe: ESA and DLR agree on mission control coope…

19/12/2018 2176 views 4 likes

BepiColombo cruise configuration

Enabling & Support

BepiColombo’s first routine firing in space

18/12/2018 6402 views 110 likes

BepiColombo approaching Mercury

Enabling & Support

BepiColombo now firing on all cylinders

05/12/2018 11222 views 141 likes

Galileos measure Einsteinian time dilation

Galileo satellites prove Einstein's Relativity Theory to hi…

04/12/2018 20473 views 153 likes

NASA's InSight lander operating on the surface of Mars

Enabling & Support

ESA lends a hand at Mars

23/11/2018 14085 views 112 likes

From pole to pole

Enabling & Support

Handing over MetOp-C

12/11/2018 4750 views 45 likes

MetOp-C liftoff

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

07/11/2018 7287 views 86 likes

Enabling & Support

ESA ready for weather mission liftoff

05/11/2018 1846 views 16 likes

Coronal mass ejection

ESA rocks space weather

05/11/2018 5442 views 61 likes

Flight Operations Director Hervé Côme at ESOC

Enabling & Support

Counting down to MetOp-C

31/10/2018 4975 views 56 likes

Elongated cloud on Mars

Science & Exploration

Mars Express keeps an eye on curious cloud

25/10/2018 43361 views 244 likes

Elsa Montagnon

Enabling & Support

BepiColombo's beginning ends

22/10/2018 9155 views 170 likes

Science & Exploration

BepiColombo blasts off to investigate Mercury’s mysteries

20/10/2018 19669 views 170 likes

Teams at mission control in BepiColombo simulation

Enabling & Support

Mission control ready for Mercury

17/10/2018 8020 views 85 likes

BepiColombo at Mercury

Enabling & Support

Practising for BepiColombo’s epic escape to Mercury

12/10/2018 7382 views 95 likes

New Norcia Tracking Station GIF

Enabling & Support

Ten years catching rocket signals

26/09/2018 5228 views 45 likes

Critical days for Aeolus

Enabling & Support

Wind mission ready for next phase

24/08/2018 6570 views 109 likes

ESA’s Aeolus wind satellite launched

23/08/2018 17926 views 140 likes

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