PROBA-3, 1 month until launch!📅🚀 PROBA-3 is @esa – and the world’s – first precision formation flying mission. A pair of satellites, with Airbus-built platforms, will be loaded with their instruments - the Occulter and the Coronagraph - and fly together maintaining a fixed…

📷 This NASA/ESA @HUBBLE_space Telescope image shows unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 4414.

📷 This was our #WeekInImages for last week! 👇 🔗esa.int/About_Us/Week_…

🍎 Dive into an explanation of Newton's 1st law of motion, and how it applies in space🚀, on @ESA__Education's new @YouTube channel! 🍏🤔 youtube.com/watch?v=CCRqg8…

#MediaInvitation: a media information session will be held at the end of ESA Council's 329th meeting on 24 October in ESA HQ, Paris, France (14:30-15:30 CEST). Details and registration👇 🔗esa.int/Newsroom/Press…

Start of the production phase for the structural model of the Ariel spacecraft!🛰️ The @esa exoplanet mission Ariel has reached an exciting new milestone! Assembled in our Airbus facilities, it is composed of two parts: ➡️ a simplified model of the payload module ➡️ a…

Shout-out to young space fans – get ready for an out-of-this-world reading adventure! We've partnered with children’s non-fiction publisher @dkbooks to create a range of fact-packed storybooks about space! 🔗esa.int/About_Us/Brand…

📸 Check out our #WeekInImages 14-18 October ➡️ esa.int/About_Us/Week_…

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this incredible image of R Aquarii, a symbiotic binary star. This is a type of binary star system consisting of a white dwarf and a red giant that is surrounded by a large, dynamic nebula. 🔗 esa.int/Science_Explor…

🚀 Missed our open day this year? No worries, we've got you... On 5 and 6 October 2024, we opened the doors to our Netherlands site. Here, the public met space engineers, astronauts and to saw actual space hardware. See you again next year! 👋 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

☄️ One step closer to Apophis! We have signed a contract with OHB Italia SpA to begin preparatory work on our proposed Ramses mission to the infamous asteroid Apophis. Ramses aims to rendezvous with the asteroid and accompany it through its close encounter with Earth in 2029.…

🌎☁️Today, we unveil the first image from all four of our @ESA_EO EarthCARE mission instruments at #IAC2024. These new results clearly highlight how these four advanced sensors work in synergy to measure exactly how clouds and aerosols influence the heating and cooling of our…

🆕 Are you ready to see the Universe like you've never seen it before? Today, our Euclid mission reveals the first piece of its great map of the Universe, showing millions of stars and galaxies. This first chunk of the map, which is a huge mosaic of 208 gigapixels, contains 260…

📸 Check out our #WeekInImages 7-11 October 2024 ➡️ esa.int/About_Us/Week_…

In a post-launch briefing, @deepbluedot summed up the motions and emotions of the @ESA_Hera mission launch Monday morning. He says the spacecraft is healthy, fully charged and ready to begin its journey to Mars. Watch the full post-launch briefing: youtu.be/c6IwNCm3uL8?fe…

Deployment of @ESA’s Hera confirmed

More pics just in of our @ESA_Hera launch! Credit: ESA - S. Corvaja

😎 Good morning/Goedemorgen! Our #ESAOpenDays at ESTEC kicked off this morning with the opening ceremony for the 'Open Day for people with a disability', introduced by ESA project astronaut John McFall, Head of ESTEC Dietmar Pilz and ESA Director General @AschbacherJosef. Welcome…

🆕 The latest image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows the Westerlund 1 open cluster and its exotic stellar population.