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- ESA Operations reposted
Programme now available for next week's International Asteroid Day festival on 26-27 June! Join us at Cercle Cité, Luxembourg, or if you can't make it in person, most talks will be streamed live on the Asteroid Day YouTube channel: asteroidday.org/events-in-luxe…
- Asteroid Apophis will fly by Earth on Friday 13 April 2029. People have nothing to worry about, but scientists are excited! A workshop in Padua this week discussed ESA's Ramses mission, which will fly with the asteroid to see what Earth's gravity does to it...
- The end of a journey, the start of arrival 🛰️🌑☀️ After 8 years of solar electric propulsion, @esa 's @BepiColombo switches off SEP as it enters its Mercury arrival phase! Next? MTM separation, orbit insertion & a bold new chapter around the innermost planet! 🎉 #bepicolombo
00:00 - Planetary defence is inherently international: at yesterday’s @UNOOSA Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna, representatives of @esa, @ASI_spazio & @JAXA_en discussed their Ramses mission collaboration, set to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis passing Earth on
The @UNOOSA Ramses panel, honoured with an introduction by Japanese ambassador Kaifu Atsushi, also included ESA Ramses mission manager Paolo Martino and Italian space agency @ASI_spazio Director General Teodoro Valente: ASI is contributing one of the mission’s two CubeSats for
- Mercury? Getting closer!🛰️🌑☀️ Preparations? Already kickstarted with a months-long simulations campaign!💯💯 Cameras? Rolling to capture every single bit of it!🎥👀 Stay tuned for upcoming BepiColombo news! #ESOC #BepiColombo #JAXA #Mercury
- 🌈 Pride Month is here! This June, colleagues at @esa ESOC are celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community. Inclusive teams power innovation and strengthen our people, our missions and the future of the space sector. 🪐 🏳️🌈See you at the Darmstadt CSD in August alongside
- Saturday’s sonic boom heard over Boston was due to an airbursting meteor, as confirmed by US weather satellite GOES-19. A European geostationary weather sat performs a comparable skywatch, read more here: esa.int/Space_Safety/F…
- Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2, monitored by ESA's Planetary Defence team, makes a notably close approach to Earth this evening (but with zero chance of impact!)
GIFWant to learn more? Read the full article here 👉- 📡 Calling Cebreros residents – join Cebreros Open Day in June! Get up close with @esa ’s 35 m deep space antenna linking Earth to missions like BepiColombo & Juice. 🌌 📆 7 June 2026 📍ESA’s Cebreros Ground Station, Spain 📝 In-person registration at Cebreros Town Hall on 16,
- ESA Operations repostedA new chapter in the ESA—JAXA cooperation on planetary defence. 🌍 The agreement signed this week confirms collaboration on #Ramses, our mission to asteroid Apophis ahead of its rare close flyby in 2029. Space safety is a priority. 🔗 esa.int/Space_Safety/P…
- Meet Aurora, Swing and Sawa 👋 Space weather can disrupt many modern services on which we depend. While it can't be prevented, with ESA's upcoming space weather sensor missions, Europe will know when to brace for impact.
00:00More info on ESA's aim to develop a European space weather monitoring fleet:
