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Week in images: 12-16 October 2020 Discover our week through the lens To source

Video: 00:03:34 In this week’s edition of the Earth from Space programme, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Zeeland – the westernmost province in the Netherlands. See also Zeeland, Netherlands to download the image. To source

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Zeeland – the westernmost province in the Netherlands. To source

Image: Venus setting To source

Image: BepiColombo points to Venus To source

All three engines developed to power Europe’s future Ariane 6 rocket have completed extensive tests – the P120C solid rocket motor for the boosters, the Vulcain 2.1 engine for the core stage and the Vinci for the upper stage. To source

The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission has completed the first of two Venus flybys needed to set it on course with the Solar System’s innermost planet, Mercury. To source

Image: BepiColombo images Venus during close approach To source

Image: BepiColombo’s first glimpse of Venus To source

Video: 00:01:13 The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. World-leading programmes for space science and exploration fly rockets, astronauts and robotic missions to explore our Solar System and beyond. To source

Image: Microwave lenses harnessed for multi-beam forming To source

Image: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet trains for the Time experiment at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA ahead of his Alpha mission  to the International Space Station in 2021. This European experiment on the International Space Station investigates the hypothesis that time subjectively speeds up in microgravity and was first run in space in […]

The structure that will fly the first woman and next man to land on the Moon and return on the Artemis III mission by 2024 arrived at the Airbus integration hall in Bremen, Germany, from its Thales Alenia Space manufacturing site in Turin, Italy. To source