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With liftoff set for 13 October, engineers at Russia’s Plesetsk launch site are steaming ahead with the task of getting Europe’s next Copernicus satellite ready for its journey into orbit. To source

An impactor smashing into an ice-rich surface gave rise to the complex flow features around this ancient crater on Mars. To source

Before and after the wildfires in Portugal with Sentinel-3A To source

Technology image of the week: the simulated multi-sensor view from a debris-catching chaser mission, targeting a derelict satellite To source

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: Pangaea geology course field trip To source

ESA’s Kevin McMullan and Claus Zehner join the Earth from Space video programme from the cleanroom to discuss the Sentinel-5P satellite and its mission To source

The international Cassini mission reaches its dramatic finale this Friday by plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere, concluding 13-years of exploration around the ringed planet. To source

One of Cassini’s last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance To source

Space Science Image of the Week: As Cassini makes its last flyby of Titan today, setting it on course for Friday’s mission end, we recall Huygens’ descent to this mysterious moon To source

Our week through the lens: 4-8 September 2017 To source

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2 image of one of Greenland’s largest glaciers, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source

Operations image of the week: On the eve of the European Space Operations Centre’s 50th anniversary, Sentinel-5P mission controllers are in ‘sim’ training for launch To source

Paolo Nespoli sends a video greeting from the International Space Station to everyone at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre on the occasion of its 50th anniversary To source