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ESA Operations

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ESA Operations

@esaoperations

From Earth orbit to deep space: sharing the excitement of realtime mission operations at the European Space Agency 🛰🕹️ Home of Space Safety 🛡️💙

Darmstadt, Germany

esa.int/operations

Born September 8, 1967

Joined November 2008

ESA Operations
@esaoperations
Jul 10
🗣️“it feels like rehearsing the final act while the show is still running." As @esa / @JAXA_en #BepiColombo prepares for #MercuryArrival, simulations are already underway – all while continuing to fly the spacecraft. 🛰️ Read more here 👉 esa.int/Enabling_Suppo… @esascience
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ESA's Hera mission
@ESA_Hera
Jul 8
Operating across 140 million km of space from ESOC's Interplanetary Control Room (left), ESA’s Hera mission team has upgraded the software running it - leaving the spacecraft ready to explore the distant Dimorphos and Didymos asteroids this autumn esa.int/Space_Safety/H…
ESA Operations
@esaoperations
Jul 7
Welcome to the Golden Age of 🪨Asteroid Exploration! 10 missions and 1 event every asteroid fan needs to know (number 6 steals the show!)...
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@esaoperations
Jul 7
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Due to Apophis's flyby (as well as other milestones including the arrival of NASA's Psyche at its metal-rich asteroid target) 2029 will be the UN Year of Asteroids asteroids2029.org
ESA Operations
@esaoperations
Jul 7
For more information on humankind and asteroids, past and future:
Asteroid Day & eight other key dates in asteroid history
From esa.int
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ESA's Hera mission
@ESA_Hera
Jul 7
Views of 2 new asteroids! The Hera team congratulates @JAXA_en 's Hayabusa2 for flying by 450-m diameter Torifune (l) and @CNSA_en's Tianwen2 for arriving at tiny 18-m Kamoʻoalewa (r). Hera reaches Dimorphos this autumn - the 1st asteroid to have been changed by human action!
ESA Operations
@esaoperations
Jul 3
Save the date for #ESOC Open Day on 2 October! 📣 Come visit @esa 's mission control - the place where space missions come alive 🛰️🪐☄️🌍📡✨ Tickets will be available after the summer holidays so stay tuned here for updates.
ESA Operations
@esaoperations
Jul 2
The European Space Agency has contracted Spanish company @emxys for the first CubeSat designed to operate on an asteroid's surface. It will be deployed by ESA's Ramses mission onto asteroid Apophis as it passes close by Earth on Friday 13 April 2029 esa.int/Space_Safety/P…
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Jun 30
Asteroids regularly slam into Earth, but in 2022 a little bit of Earth slammed into an asteroid - in the shape of NASA's DART spacecraft hitting Dimorphos. This autumn ESA's Hera spacecraft reaches this same body to try and find out: could we save Earth from an incoming asteroid?
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