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Solar flare seen by Solar Orbiter

Flying through the biggest solar storm ever recorded

15/10/2025 27273 views 95 likes

In September, mission controllers at ESA's mission control centre started a major simulations exercise to ensure that the next Copernicus Sentinel Earth Observation mission, Sentinel-6B, safely navigates its first days in space.

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Rehearsing for Sentinel-6B’s early days in space

08/10/2025 1230 views 17 likes

ESA's fourth deep space antenna, in New Norcia, Australia

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ESA inaugurates deep space antenna in Australia

04/10/2025 9059 views 101 likes

The European Space Agency (ESA) has officially announced Pulse, a new solution that streamlines mission monitoring and control. To be deployed next year on ESA’s three-satellite Swarm constellation, Pulse will progressively support all ESA missions and serve the broader European space sector.

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Pulse: ESA’s new approach to flying satellites

26/09/2025 2044 views 30 likes

Simulations ongoing for Sentinel-1D

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“We know the drill”: Sentinel-1D begins streamlined simulat…

16/09/2025 1013 views 19 likes

Galileo time

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ESA deploys new fully European ground-based atomic clock

07/09/2025 1409 views 18 likes

Over the summer 2025, ESA’s Ground Laser Transmitter, installed at the Kryoneri Observatory in Greece, has been the half of a optical communication demonstration campaign between Earth and NASA’s Psyche mission.

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ESA wraps up 300-million-kilometre optical communication ca…

27/08/2025 3885 views 46 likes

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Juice team resolves anomaly on approach to Venus

25/08/2025 16901 views 97 likes

NASA's Psyche mission

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Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

10/07/2025 13241 views 90 likes

The Moon over ESA's Cebreros deep space antenna

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Safeguarding Europe’s role in Solar System Internet: First …

16/06/2025 1620 views 17 likes

Cebreros transmitting the Blue Danube Waltz

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ESA transmits the Blue Danube Waltz into deep space

04/06/2025 2972 views 31 likes

ispace's RESILIENCE lander and TENACIOUS micro rover on the Moon

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ESA supports Moon mission carrying first European rover

03/06/2025 7359 views 73 likes

ESA's Cyber Security Operations Centre

ESA inaugurates new Cyber Security Operations Centre

27/05/2025 3240 views 28 likes

Waltz Into Space Event Poster

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Waltzing celebration for half a century of European satelli…

26/05/2025 2386 views 23 likes

Mars Express

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Mars Express updates software, potentially extending spacec…

16/05/2025 2470 views 30 likes

ESA's Biomass Calibration Transponder in New Norcia, Australia

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Biomass, an oversized football and the Australian outback

15/05/2025 1449 views 20 likes

Biomass model in ESA's Main Control Room

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Biomass completes a relay race of a LEOP

09/05/2025 1882 views 30 likes

Biomass takes to the skies

Biomass launched to count forest carbon

29/04/2025 17676 views 135 likes

Vega-C fairing release revealing Biomass

Watch Biomass launch live

24/04/2025 22232 views 66 likes

Simulations ongoing for Biomass launch

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Final preparations for Biomass operations

23/04/2025 1777 views 17 likes

Gaia observes the Milky Way

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Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft operations come to an end

27/03/2025 44696 views 141 likes

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

25/03/2025 3771 views 40 likes

Cartoon Hera made using LEGO® bricks, designed by Frans Snik

Hera’s incredible adventures in brick building

13/03/2025 2852 views 31 likes

Sir Brian May and the rest of Hera's science team see Mars image arrive

Hera asteroid mission spies Mars’s Deimos moon

13/03/2025 23223 views 139 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Watch live: Images from Hera’s Mars flyby

10/03/2025 27542 views 118 likes

Solar Orbiter Venus flyby

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Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus

18/02/2025 8000 views 67 likes

New Norcia antenna completes one year powered by the Sun

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Downlinking satellite data from space to the cloud

22/01/2025 1568 views 11 likes

Snowy Malargüe

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Malargüe: A satellite dish best served cold

17/01/2025 3058 views 66 likes

ISRO Gaganyaan crew module

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ESA to support Indian human spaceflight missions

12/12/2024 4505 views 57 likes

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Open-to-use SMILE antenna wins hertz and minds

22/11/2024 1287 views 11 likes

Hera fires its thrusters

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Hera burns towards Mars

08/11/2024 5372 views 65 likes

CubeSat Deep Space Deployers in Hera spacecraft

Hera asteroid mission’s CubeSat passengers signal home

28/10/2024 5070 views 62 likes

Members of the Hera operations team on launch day

Hera takes flight: Didymos, here we come

10/10/2024 4910 views 54 likes

Lifting the dish at ESA's newest deep space antenna

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Uplifting news! ESA crowns new deep space antenna in Austra…

02/10/2024 4935 views 50 likes

Final data captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite

Sentinel-1B journeys back to Earth

23/09/2024 5257 views 61 likes

Sentinel-2C model in ESOC's Main Control Room

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A smooth start to life in orbit for Sentinel-2C

10/09/2024 2476 views 40 likes

Cluster satellite reenters Earth's atmosphere

Science & Exploration

Goodnight, Cluster: brilliant end to trailblazing mission

09/09/2024 11504 views 53 likes

Mission control GO for Sentinel-2C launch

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Sentinel-2C operators complete final rehearsals

03/09/2024 2801 views 34 likes

BepiColombo Mercury flyby

Science & Exploration

Fourth Mercury flyby begins BepiColombo’s new trajectory

02/09/2024 15266 views 66 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

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Cluster mission set to end with reentry over South Pacific

22/08/2024 6286 views 45 likes

Juice waves Earth goodbye once again

Science & Exploration

Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby

21/08/2024 42477 views 111 likes

Hera glides past Didymos to Dimorphos

Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science

31/07/2024 4484 views 51 likes

Hera inter-satellite link with Juventas CubeSat

Hera spacecraft trio to fly safe with inter-linked radio

24/07/2024 2218 views 3 likes

ESA Kourou communicates with IM-1 at the Moon

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ESA stations support three Moon missions in 2024

20/07/2024 2119 views 10 likes

Juice flies by the Moon

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Preparing for Juice’s daring double flyby

18/07/2024 3316 views 41 likes

Gaia mapping the stars of the Milky Way

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Double trouble: Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm

17/07/2024 24585 views 182 likes

Santa Maria station

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Tracking Ariane 6 as it soars over the Azores

04/07/2024 6151 views 47 likes

Hera's control team visits the spacecraft inside its cleanroom

Countdown to Hera: launch campaign begins at ESOC

27/06/2024 3362 views 24 likes

Hera and CubeSats in Maxwell chamber

Hera and its CubeSats speak with mission control

13/06/2024 3134 views 12 likes

EarthCARE: to understand how clouds and aerosols affect Earth's radiation balance

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EarthCARE on cloud nine after smooth start to mission

05/06/2024 2446 views 20 likes

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