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Draco mission poster

ESA's Planetary Defence team

Asteroids named after ESA people and places in 2025

Celebrating asteroid ESOC

Ramses mission poster

An airplane in front of the Sun

ESA's Draco mission: inside a fiery reentry

RISE mission poster

Vigil mission poster

Observation of 40 000 near-Earth Asteroids

Radio interference from the 11 November 2025 flare as observed in Austria, provided by eCallisto radiospectrograms, a federated product from the Institute for Data Science (FHNW).

Observation of the Sun in extreme ultraviolet by the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s AIA instrument on 11 November, provided by the Royal Observatory of Belgium / SIDC.

Summary of the space weather event triggered on 11 November 2025 and its consequences

ESA Space Safety Fleet

Rumba was observed from ESA's Optical Ground Station on 21 October, shortly before Rumba reentered the atmosphere.

The space environment health index in 2025 shows our current behaviour is not sustainable over time.

ESA Space Environment 2025 figure 4

Distribution of space debris around Earth

Space weather simulation exercice at ESOC

The exercise replicated the effects of a catastrophic solar storm on satellite operations to test the team’s ability to respond without satellite navigation and under severe electronic disruption.

Video of the explosion of the Sun during the 2003 Halloween solar storm, captured by the EIT instrument onboard the ESA/NASA SOHO satellite. Snow-like lines in the images correspond to the saturation of the camera detectors due to the impact of high-energy particles originated in the solar active region.

ESA spots asteroid that made very close approach to Earth

Asteroid 2023 CX1 observed prior to impact

Space Safety brochure front

Close approach of asteroid 2025 FA22

Locations of lunar impact flashes detected by the NELIOTA project

RISE: Extending missions in geostationary orbit

Draco mission patch

Hera and asteroid Otero at time of observation

Asteroid (18805) Kellyday

Asteroid (1126) Otero [stacked]

NEOMIR mission patch

Space weather reporter Vigil in deep space

Earth from space as seen by Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski

ESA observes interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the Moon?

Digital eclipse by KU Leuven's simulation software

Visiting ESA's Flyeye telescope

Flyeye's view of the Andromeda galaxy

Flyeye's view of asteroid (139289) 2001 KR1

Flyeye's view of asteroid (35107) 1991 VH

Flyeye's view of asteroid 2025 KQ

Flyeye's view of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS)

Close approach of asteroid (424482) 2008 DG5

Lights and dust for a Moon shot

ESA's Cyber Security Operations Centre

Distribution of ESA's Cyber Security Operations Centre

ESA's Cyber Security Operations Centre

Izaña-1 laser ranging station

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