ESA has received permission to begin preparing a mission to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis. ‘Ramses’ will be designed to accompany Apophis through its close and incredibly rare flyby of Earth in 2029. esa.int/Space_Safety/P…

Never hide what you don’t know, always rely on your team, trust, and empower. Everyone gains so much more that spending energy to prove you know best. But also empower and request accountability for own actions, promote growth and careers. This is what I learned European Space Agency

Satellite navigation🤝 emergency services Satnav is not just about travel directions; it is emerging as a game-changing tool in countless fields, including healthcare. NAVISP supports several projects that use PNT technologies to help locate people in distress, optimise

A team from @uniSouthampton 🇬🇧 test satellite control tech on Europe's flattest floor: air-bearing platforms moving along it reproduce free-floating weightless conditions in 2D, organised via ESA Education esa.int/Enabling_Suppo…

Steel plates lining the cavernous heart of the newest addition to @ESA's ESTEC technical centre in 🇳🇱 - Hertz 2.0. These plates will screen out radio signals to enable the testing of the biggest & most powerful spacecraft antennas esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

As the number of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) increases exponentially, so does the debris, with potentially catastrophic consequences! #ESADiscovery invites researchers to join our briefing on a new project using passive multistatic radar techniques for debris

🤔Can't wait for the #Olympics #Paris2024? 🙋 😎 Wait no longer! 🏸 Today, our missions will compete for 🥇🥈🥉 in our very own #ESAGames! 🎯 Who will win the space diving, synchronised orbital swimming, satellite marathon, cosmic pentathlon and astro-archery? You choose 🫵

It's been two weeks since the historic inaugural flight of the Ariane 6, and this just in - we received the video from our friends at #YPSat of our CubeSats being deployed! 🚀 Take a look as the Exolaunch deployer first releases ³Cat-4, then ISTSat-1 into orbit. Both of these

Our #HeraMission for planetary defence is not 1 spacecraft but 3! As Hera's pair of shoebox-sized CubeSats fly around the Dimorphos asteroid they'll stay linked to their mothership using a radio system developed by a terrestrial drone company TEKEVER esa.int/Space_Safety/H…

Working in the space industry? Join us at #ESATech centre #ESTEC for @ESA's Industry Space Days 2024 on 18–19 September - programme now available! #ISD2024ESA esa.int/About_Us/Busin…

🛰️ Are you a student interested in designing a satellite navigation mission? Don't miss this opportunity to receive invaluable training and support from ESA navigation specialists! 🙋‍♀️Don't know where to start? Choose one of the innovative ideas developed by the ESA Navigation

As @ESA’s #HeraMission completes pre-launch testing, its target bodies have come into focus as tiny worldlets of their own, with new studies based on NASA's #DARTMission imagery in Nature Communications esa.int/Space_Safety/H…

Satellites in orbit produce so much data that the main challenge is getting it all down to Earth! #ESADiscovery is working with IBM & KP Labs 🇵🇱 on space-based data centres to process key insights on the spot for downlinking esa.int/Enabling_Suppo…

Sometimes the journey is just as worthy as the destination🌑 As humankind embarked on the monumental first lunar-Earth flyby, @ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission captured a breathtaking glimpse of our natural satellite. At 23:15 CEST on 19 August 2024, the left

Register now to be part of Europe’s leading conference on Spacecraft Structures, Materials and Environmental Testing (ECSSMET)... ECSSMET 2024 will take place in ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on 23-27 September: atpi.eventsair.com/ecssmet2024/

During this week's lunar-Earth flyby, #ESAJuice's Navigation Camera (NavCam) was tested out in space for the first time. Though NavCam was actually designed to help Juice steer around Ganymede, Europa and Callisto, these images aren't bad either 😍 More 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…

Its closest pass yet and its first-ever views of Mercury's south pole – last night was quite a night for #BepiColombo! Enjoy this taste of our fourth Mercury flyby. Details & images 👇esa.int/Science_Explor…

🤖 Move over T-1000! This isn't sci-fi, this is European Space Agency and Airbus Space 3D printing the first ever metal part in space 🔧🚀. In the future, astronauts could print on demand any tools they need, revolutionising missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond 🌑🔴 Find out more 👉

Might we one day see a human-made meteor shower? It's possible, according to an analysis of the debris thrown into space when NASA's DART mission slammed into asteroid Dimorphos. Small, harmless pieces could make it to Mars, or even Earth, in the future. esa.int/Space_Safety/H…