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Space Science Image of the Week: Unwrapping the Egg Nebula to reveal the late stages of a star’s life To source

ESA seeks your ideas for applying space technology to Earth-based problems. Through the Open Space Innovation Platform , a new challenge-based website, the Agency is hunting out bright ideas to monitor plastic waste polluting the oceans, and to improve the self-steering abilities of ships. To source

ESA aims to harness a new resource for future space activities: ideas from European researchers, businesses and the general public. Through its new Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP), anyone is welcome to respond to space-related challenges. To source

This week’s edition features the busy maritime traffic passing through the English Channel To source

Our week through the lens: 8-12 April 2019 To source

On Thursday 18 April, you are cordially invited to view the final presentations of ESA’s second Galileo smartphone app competition – to develop an app capable of performing fixes using raw Galileo satnav measurements – as well as put your own vote in for your favourite. To source

Spain’s PLD Space, supported by ESA, has demonstrated the technologies for a reusable first stage of their orbital microlauncher, Miura 5. To source

The discarded ‘upper stage’ from a rocket launched almost ten years ago has recently crumbled to pieces. To source

Earth observation image of the week: the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission takes us over the busy maritime highways of the English Channel To source

One million in our Instagram community @europeanspaceagency – thank you for being a part of it! To source

ESA’s 35-m deep space antenna in Malargüe, Argentina, has had a major refurbishment, getting it ready for the launch of Euclid in 2022 and able to transfer even greater quantities of ‘space data’… To source

Our future mission Plato, due to launch in 2026, will use highly sensitive light detectors to monitor the brightness of thousands of stars in search of Earth-sized planets To source