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The geology analogue course Pangaea continues for its third leg in Lanzarote To source

The European Service Module that will power and propel the Orion spacecraft on its first mission around the Moon will ship early next week from Bremen to the United States. It will take off in an Antonov An-124 aircraft in the early hours of 5 November and arrive at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US […]

MetOp-C will soon be launched from French Guiana. ESA’s Stéfane Carlier talks about how this mission provides the continuity of information for weather forecasting and climate research To source

Space Science Image of the Week: An ancient cold front in galaxy cluster Perseus is imaged in surprisingly sharp detail To source

In this week’s edition, the Copernicus Sentinel-2B satellite takes us over Kyoto and Osaka in Japan To source

Our week through the lens: 22 – 26 October 2018 To source

European ministers in charge of space activities met this week at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre near Madrid, Spain, to preview ESA’s vision for the future of Europe in space. To source

BepiColombo images its magnetometer boom deployment, recording first magnetic field data at the same time To source

Earth observation image of the week: Copernicus Sentinel-2 captures two of Japan’s larger cities To source

Since 13 September, ESA’s Mars Express has been observing the evolution of an elongated cloud formation hovering in the vicinity of the 20 km-high Arsia Mons volcano, close to the planet’s equator. To source

Operations image of the week: Estrack engineers Lucy Santana and Daniel Firre in ESA’s Main Control Room during the launch of the ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury — BepiColombo To source

Technology image of the week: ESA’s exoplanet-characterising Cheops undergoing testing in the Maxwell chamber, which recreates the infinite void of space To source

Watch the press conference following an Intermediate Ministerial Meeting in Spain, starts 14:15 GMT on 25 October To source