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Space Safety Programme at 2025 Ministerial Council

08/05/2025 7129 views 15 likes

Space debris surrounding Earth

ESA Space Environment Report 2025

01/04/2025 92577 views 90 likes

Hera's autonomous surface feature tracking during Mars flyby

Hera asteroid mission tested self-driving technique at Mars

25/03/2025 4840 views 40 likes

Where space weather starts

Supercomputing powers for space weather models

25/03/2025 1417 views 12 likes

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

Hera’s incredible adventures in brick building

13/03/2025 4200 views 33 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 25711 views 140 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Watch live: Images from Hera’s Mars flyby

10/03/2025 28507 views 119 likes

Ramses mission patch

First CubeSat joins ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

05/03/2025 6238 views 53 likes

Asteroid 2024 YR4 impact risk rises and falls

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses significant impact risk

25/02/2025 31541 views 89 likes

Near-Earth objects

ESA endorses Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defen…

07/02/2025 10280 views 67 likes

Asteroid - artist's impression

ESA actively monitoring near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4

29/01/2025 193336 views 145 likes

German laser ranging company receives ESA innovation award

21/11/2024 2897 views 11 likes

ESA has signed a contract with Hemeria worth €9.8 million to design, build and operate Swing, the Agency’s first space weather nanosatellite mission. Swing will aim at demonstrating the value of nanosatellites to gather space weather data and support the commercialisation trend in the New Space era.

Hemeria to implement ESA’s first space weather nanosatellit…

20/11/2024 2282 views 7 likes

CubeSat Deep Space Deployers in Hera spacecraft

Hera asteroid mission’s CubeSat passengers signal home

28/10/2024 5825 views 62 likes

ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis

ESA moves forward with Apophis mission preparations

17/10/2024 14770 views 128 likes

RISE: Extending missions in geostationary orbit

ESA to build first in-orbit servicing mission with D-Orbit

14/10/2024 15281 views 63 likes

Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)

Hera’s first images offer parting glimpse of Earth and Moon

14/10/2024 15832 views 141 likes

Members of the Hera operations team on launch day

Hera takes flight: Didymos, here we come

10/10/2024 5480 views 54 likes

Planetary defence mission Hera heading for deflected astero…

07/10/2024 17223 views 44 likes

Hera launch animation still

Hera launch: how to watch

04/10/2024 22333 views 93 likes

ESA's Draco mission: inside a fiery reentry

Draco mission made for destruction

24/09/2024 14462 views 73 likes

ESA’s final observations of asteroid 2024 RW1

Asteroid 2024 RW1 impact – ESA analysis

09/09/2024 7883 views 18 likes

Debris from DART impact could reach Earth

06/09/2024 10317 views 50 likes

Hera departs ESA test centre

Goodbye Hera: asteroid mission departs ESA test centre

02/09/2024 3203 views 19 likes

Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Watching Salsa’s reentry live from the sky

26/08/2024 8156 views 31 likes

Hera glides past Didymos to Dimorphos

Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science

31/07/2024 5031 views 51 likes

Hera inter-satellite link with Juventas CubeSat

Hera spacecraft trio to fly safe with inter-linked radio

24/07/2024 2712 views 3 likes

Space Debris

ESA Space Environment Report 2024

19/07/2024 45976 views 76 likes

Hera approaching Didymos asteroids

NASA selects US scientists to join ESA’s Hera mission

28/06/2024 2002 views 1 likes

Hera's control team visits the spacecraft inside its cleanroom

Countdown to Hera: launch campaign begins at ESOC

27/06/2024 3711 views 24 likes

GOCE in orbit

Time to build zero-debris satellites

26/06/2024 6499 views 25 likes

Near-Earth objects

Two large asteroids safely pass Earth just 42 hours apart

24/06/2024 43655 views 44 likes

Hera and CubeSats in Maxwell chamber

Hera and its CubeSats speak with mission control

13/06/2024 3625 views 12 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Dozens of companies, institutions and NGOs sign the Zero De…

06/06/2024 5012 views 11 likes

Hera approaches Dimorphos

Virtual flying lessons for Hera asteroid mission

29/05/2024 3742 views 9 likes

Vigil warns Earth

Airbus to build ESA’s Vigil space weather forecasting missi…

22/05/2024 7006 views 13 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Twelve countries sign the Zero Debris Charter

22/05/2024 6816 views 19 likes

Aurora near Frankfurt, Germany, May 2024

The May 2024 solar storm: your questions answered

17/05/2024 27203 views 65 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars

25/04/2024 6146 views 36 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

ESA advances Clearspace-1 development

23/04/2024 8603 views 45 likes

Juventas CubeSat deployment

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

27/03/2024 5479 views 10 likes

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

26/03/2024 191666 views 124 likes

Milani CubeSat deployed from Hera asteroid mission

Shoebox-sized Milani CubeSat joining Hera asteroid mission

14/03/2024 5185 views 19 likes

ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 152491 views 262 likes

Simulation of DART's impact on Dimorphos

DART impact might have reshaped Hera's target asteroid

26/02/2024 6761 views 48 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 29697 views 107 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 33964 views 76 likes

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

ERS-2 spotted by other satellites during descent

19/02/2024 18477 views 59 likes

Chelyabinsk asteroid trail

10 years preparing for 'Armageddon'

08/02/2024 6958 views 45 likes

Asteroid 2024 BX1 tracked prior to impact

Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact

25/01/2024 10166 views 26 likes

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