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Cluster satellite reentering Earth's atmosphere

Watching Salsa’s reentry live from the sky

26/08/2024 7416 views 31 likes

Hera glides past Didymos to Dimorphos

Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science

31/07/2024 4736 views 51 likes

Hera inter-satellite link with Juventas CubeSat

Hera spacecraft trio to fly safe with inter-linked radio

24/07/2024 2436 views 3 likes

Space Debris

ESA Space Environment Report 2024

19/07/2024 41335 views 75 likes

Hera approaching Didymos asteroids

NASA selects US scientists to join ESA’s Hera mission

28/06/2024 1851 views 1 likes

Hera's control team visits the spacecraft inside its cleanroom

Countdown to Hera: launch campaign begins at ESOC

27/06/2024 3496 views 24 likes

GOCE in orbit

Time to build zero-debris satellites

26/06/2024 5868 views 24 likes

Near-Earth objects

Two large asteroids safely pass Earth just 42 hours apart

24/06/2024 42605 views 43 likes

Hera and CubeSats in Maxwell chamber

Hera and its CubeSats speak with mission control

13/06/2024 3250 views 12 likes

Zero Debris key visual

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

06/06/2024 4437 views 10 likes

Hera approaches Dimorphos

Virtual flying lessons for Hera asteroid mission

29/05/2024 3538 views 9 likes

Vigil warns Earth

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

22/05/2024 6355 views 13 likes

Zero Debris key visual

Twelve countries sign the Zero Debris Charter

22/05/2024 6038 views 18 likes

Aurora near Frankfurt, Germany, May 2024

The May 2024 solar storm: your questions answered

17/05/2024 25877 views 64 likes

Hera swings by Mars

Hera asteroid mission’s side-trip to Mars

25/04/2024 5577 views 36 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

ESA advances Clearspace-1 development

23/04/2024 7099 views 37 likes

Juventas CubeSat deployment

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

27/03/2024 4862 views 10 likes

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks

‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

26/03/2024 190832 views 124 likes

Milani CubeSat deployed from Hera asteroid mission

Shoebox-sized Milani CubeSat joining Hera asteroid mission

14/03/2024 4503 views 19 likes

ISS batteries orbital ground track (latest)

Reentry of International Space Station (ISS) batteries into…

08/03/2024 151964 views 262 likes

Simulation of DART's impact on Dimorphos

DART impact might have reshaped Hera's target asteroid

26/02/2024 6313 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 28808 views 105 likes

ERS-2 reenters Earth’s atmosphere over Pacific Ocean

21/02/2024 33183 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 18181 views 59 likes

Chelyabinsk asteroid trail

10 years preparing for 'Armageddon'

08/02/2024 6535 views 45 likes

Asteroid 2024 BX1 tracked prior to impact

Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact

25/01/2024 9652 views 26 likes

Zero Debris key visual

ESA leads the way towards a Zero Debris future

14/12/2023 4990 views 62 likes

Milani Patch Contest terms and conditions

13/12/2023 1552 views 1 likes

Milani patch contest

Design the patch for Hera’s Milani CubeSat

13/12/2023 5513 views 35 likes

Hera inside the LEAF acoustic chamber

Hera asteroid mission hears the noise

10/11/2023 5566 views 55 likes

The growing problem of space debris

World-first Zero Debris Charter goes live

06/11/2023 12499 views 58 likes

Final images of Aeolus during its brief phase as space debris

Final images before Aeolus demise

05/09/2023 21864 views 85 likes

Hera's Core Module lowered onto Propulsion Module

Hera asteroid spacecraft assembled

24/08/2023 6121 views 54 likes

ClearSpace-1 with captured Vespa

Objects detected in the vicinity of ClearSpace-1 debris rem…

22/08/2023 18584 views 95 likes

CLIP: Simulating Aeolus’s demise: a bird’s eye view

ESA’s Space Environment Report 2023

10/08/2023 27971 views 85 likes

Juventas studies asteroid's internal structure

Hera’s mini-radar will probe asteroid’s heart

10/08/2023 5912 views 66 likes

Dimorphos asteroid seen by DART

Imagine walking on Hera’s asteroid

30/06/2023 4807 views 78 likes

Hera and its CubeSats at Didymos system

Precision deployer to put Hera’s CubeSats into asteroid orb…

29/06/2023 3898 views 41 likes

GRASS gravimeter on shaker

Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space

22/05/2023 6818 views 66 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination

What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out

24/04/2023 3312 views 44 likes

Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination

Eyes on Hera: Asteroid mission’s cameras ready

23/02/2023 7957 views 111 likes

Curious comet’s rare close approach

01/02/2023 35865 views 243 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

Christmas challenge: find mystery asteroid

09/12/2022 11136 views 52 likes

Time-lapse photograph of 2022 WJ1 taken by astronomer Robert Weryk in Ontario, Canada

The sixth asteroid impact we saw coming

24/11/2022 61103 views 142 likes

European space sector commits: Earth is ours, we must cheri…

21/11/2022 8444 views 49 likes

Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia

30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising

12/10/2022 21115 views 65 likes

LICIACube image of asteroid ejecta

First kinetic impact test succeeds in shifting asteroid orb…

12/10/2022 6539 views 55 likes

DART's moment of impact

Hera team congratulates NASA asteroid impactors

27/09/2022 9040 views 85 likes

Plume ejects from Dimorphos as DART impacts

ESA to capture light from deflected asteroid’s new plume

26/09/2022 25282 views 79 likes

DART impacting asteroid

ESA deep space network tracks DART asteroid impact

20/09/2022 15323 views 104 likes

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