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ESA Moon challenge

ESA invites university students around the world to compete in designing a mission scenario for the next step in space exploration: a human–robotic partnership for exploring the Moon To source

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Live from Krakow

Will CarbonSat or FLEX be ESA’s next Earth Explorer mission? Follow discussions at the User Consultation Meeting on 15–16 September To source

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Supervising two rovers from space

ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen is proving to be an expert space driver after commanding two rovers from space this week. As part of ESA’s Meteron project, Andreas drove a second, car-sized rover from the International Space Station to repair a mockup lunar base in the Netherlands. To source

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A heart full of stars

The Hubble Space Telescope has found a giant galaxy cluster with a huge galaxy at its core that is bursting with new stars To source

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Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2 image of agricultural structures in Italy, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme To source

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Galileo taking flight: ten satellites now in orbit

Europe’s own satellite navigation system has come a step nearer to completion today, with Galileo 9 and 10 which lifted off together at 02:08 GMT on 11 September (04:08 CEST; 23:08 local time, 10 September) from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, atop a Soyuz launcher. To source

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