Discover our week through the lens (18-22 November 2019). To source
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Hera scans Didymoon
Image: Hera is a candidate ESA mission be presented to ESA’s Space19+ meeting next week as part of the Agency’s Space Safety programme, where Europe’s space ministers will take a final decision on flying it. If approved, Hera that will be humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system, Didymos. The larger of […]
Earth from Space: Seville
Video: 00:02:39 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Seville in southern Spain, where ESA’s next Ministerial Council will soon take place. See also Seville, Spain to download the image. To source
Seville, Spain
Image: Ahead of next week’s ‘Space19+’ Ministerial Council, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Seville in southern Spain – the destination for this milestone event. On 27–28 November, Ministers from ESA’s Member States along with Associate Member Slovenia and Cooperating State Canada will meet in Seville for the ESA Council at Ministerial Level Space19+ […]
Shimmering skies signal space weather
Image: The Aurora, seen here dancing above Svalbard in Norway, is the most beautiful result of space weather on Earth. The lights, most commonly found at polar regions, are totally benign, but they signify something serious happening at Earth. Space weather describes the ever-changing conditions in space, caused by intense radiation and colossal amounts of energetic material […]
Solar Orbiter launch campaign begins
ESA’s mission to the Sun has been unpacked following its arrival in Florida earlier this month, ready to begin pre-launch testing and checks. To source
Luca aces telerobotic lunar geology test drive
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano took command of a rover in the Netherlands on Monday and expertly drove it over an obstacle course to collect a rock from a sampling site– all while circling our planet at 28 800 km/h on the International Space Station. To source
Watch live: second #SpacewalkForAMS
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will take the lead spacewalking role yet again on 22 November as he and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan go beyond the International Space Station airlock to service the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer AMS-02. To source
Priya's YGT experience in the ESA Future Missions Office!
Video: 00:02:50 Priya Patel, System Engineer, talks about her experience as a YGT working on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Mission (LISA) . To source
The Burn
Video: 00:10:05 ESA’s flight controllers use the best software and systems to fly our missions — but do they have the cool savvy needed to handle a wonky engine and a time-critical manoeuvre? Set in the near future, ‘The Burn’ is a new short film that tells the story of what happens when an ESA […]
Out-of-this-world aspirations
Video: 00:01:01 The latest Harris Interactive survey conducted on behalf of ESA reveals out-of-this-world aspirations for European citizens when it comes to space activities. Find out more in this short video, and look out for the full report – coming soon! To source
Fuelling Cheops
Image: The Cheops satellite positioned onto the fuelling stand at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The stand facilitates access to the propulsion module, easing fuelling activities. To source
Fractured ice sheets on Mars
Where the two hemispheres of Mars meet, the planet is covered in broken-up terrain: a sign that slow-but-steady flows of icy material once forged their way through the landscape, carving out a fractured web of valleys, cliffs and isolated mounds of rock. To source