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Agency 29/11/2023 385 views 10 likes There are 28 small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working on ESA’s Hera planetary defence mission, which involves about 100 companies in total. These…

The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully launched the Euclid space telescope on July 1 at 11:12 am ET. It was launched with the help of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. It reached orbit and…

The current expansion of ESA’s technical heart, nestled beside North Sea dunes on the Netherlands coast, as seen from the air.The European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, is ESA’s single largest establishment and hub…

Leaders of European space organisations gathered at ESA’s technical heart – the European Space Technology and Research Centre ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands –  on 15-17 March as part of a trilaterial teambuilding seminar…

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Enabling & Support 18/11/2022 91 views 2 likes ESA’s Optical Ground Station, perched high on the slopes of Tenerife’s Mount Teide volcano, has now been peering skyward for a quarter of a…

At approximately 3000 sq. m in area, ESA’s ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is already the largest satellite testing establishment in Europe. Now it has grown even bigger, with the formal opening of a new 350 sq. m…

Enabling & Support 09/09/2022 10 views 0 likes Next week ESA’s future-oriented Advanced Concepts Team, ACT, will mark its 20th anniversary by contemplating the coming two decades in space…

Space Safety 01/09/2022 338 views 18 likes This month NASA’s DART spacecraft will collide with the smaller of the two Didymos asteroids in deep space, attempting to shift its orbit in what…

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has captured images of portions of the Martian Valles Marineris, the largest system of canyons in the Solar System. Valles Marineris, like many other geological features on the red planet,…