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Continuing our series on ESRO’s Directors General, the latest #ESAarchives #ObjectOfTheMonth covers Prof. Hermann Bondi’s appointment as Director General in 1967, with some of his first words to the ESRO community, and an optimistic look to the future. Find out with us whether

#OTD 7 November 2018, the 3rd #MetOp satellite, MetOp-C, was launched from Centre spatial guyanais, continuing the provision of data for weather forecasting from polar orbit 🚀 🔗esa.int/Applications/O…

🎉👏☄️ Seems only yesterday Paolo !

#OTD 9 November 2005, launch of Venus Express, #ESA's 1st probe to #Venus. The mission ended in 2014 after 8 years of service ESA Science 🔗esa.int/Science_Explor…

#OTD 4⃣0⃣ years ago: 10 November 1984, one of Europe’s 1st telecommunications satellites, #MARECS B2, launched on #Ariane3 V11 from Centre spatial guyanais 🚀🛰️ ESA Connectivity and Secure Communications Arianespace CNES Viasat 🔗 esa.int/About_Us/ESA_h…

Follow along with #CometLandingRelived!

#OTD 🔟 years ago: 12 November 2014, ESA Rosetta Mission made history by landing a probe on the surface of a comet, 1st ever to do so. The signal confirming touchdown of Philae Lander on #Comet67P was received by ESA Operations #ESOC #CometLandingRelived 🔗esa.int/Science_Explor…

Seems like only yesterday! #CometLandingRelived ☄️

#OTD 🔟 years ago, 12 November 2014, the third of a trio of music videos featuring music composed specially by #Vangelis was released to celebrate the first landing on a comet by ESA's #Rosetta mission. Elsew.com #Vangelis Airbus Space ESA Science DLR - English ESA Operations NASA History Office

#ESAarchives are issuing an appeal for donations! We’re looking for material from ESA’s predecessors COPERS, ELDO and ESRO, who operated throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, prior to the creation of ESA in 1975. Can you help us reconstruct their legacy?

#OTD 14 November 2000, #Portugal 🇵🇹 acceded to the #ESA Convention, becoming ESA's 15th Member State Josef Aschbacher 🔗esa.int/About_Us/Corpo…

#OTD 16 November 2022, NASA headed back to the Moon together with #ESA, with the launch of #ArtemisI, a Orion Spacecraft spacecraft powered by the #ESM1 European Service Module #Artemis #ForwardToTheMoon Human Spaceflight NASA History Office NASA Artemis NASA's Kennedy Space Center 🔗

#OTD 17 November 2016, launch of #ESA's Thomas Pesquet Pesquet 🇫🇷 on his 6-month #Proxima mission to International Space Station w/Peggy Whitson & cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky #Shenanigans Human Spaceflight ESA France NASA History Office 🔗 esa.int/Science_Explor…

Our #ESAarchives series on ESRO’s Directors General concludes this month with Alexander Hocker, DG from 1971 to 1974. December's #ObjectOfTheMonth tells the story of a framed portrait and takes us to the transition from ESRO to ESA, ready for ESA’s 50th anniversary next year!

How do you make a new space organisation? Find out with the #ESAarchives in a special two-part series looking at the people and processes that created ESA in 1975, as we get ready for fifty years of ESA next year! Part one starts with drafting a Convention...

Part two of our #ESAarchives series on 'how a make a new space organisation' looks at the day it all happened – come back to 30 May 1975 and discover exactly how it all came together to make @ESA! 🔗historicalarchives.esa.int/30-may-1975-re… #Roadto1975 #60yearsELDOandESRO #50YearsOfESA

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