The European Space Agency explained
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2025 was a year of proof. Proof that Europe works when institutions, Member States and industry act with alignment and with purpose. Proof that difficult decisions taken together during difficult times can ignite new momentum and restore trust. And proof that Europe delivers in space, at a time when space is more of a strategic domain than ever. In 2025, ESA delivered. 2026 will be a year of implementation. The European Space Agency takes part in the 18th European Space Conference in Brussels on
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2025 was a year of proof. Proof that Europe works when institutions, Member States and industry act with alignment and with purpose. Proof that difficult decisions taken together during difficult times can ignite new momentum and restore trust. And proof that Europe delivers in space, at a time when space is more of a strategic domain than ever. In 2025, ESA delivered. 2026 will be a year of implementation. The European Space Agency takes part in the 18th European Space Conference in Brussels on
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A special European Space Agency - ESA council last week, a bittersweet one, that will unavoidably be my last. As Josef Aschbacher announced very flatteringly, I am retiring from ESA after almost four… | Toni Tolker-Nielsen | 19 comments
A special European Space Agency - ESA council last week, a bittersweet one, that will unavoidably be my last. As Josef Aschbacher announced very flatteringly, I am retiring from ESA after almost four… | Toni Tolker-Nielsen | 19 comments
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Life at the European Space Agency, 1970s edition 📼 📹@europeanspaceagency 🎞️ ESA 📸 ESA | ESA - European Space Agency
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Life at the European Space Agency, 1970s edition 📼 📹@europeanspaceagency 🎞️ ESA 📸 ESA | ESA - European Space Agency
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We’re almost ready to say goodbye to 2021, a year in which we once more succeeded in continuing operations in a challenging global situation, and created important milestones in European spaceflight 👉 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2021/12/ESA_highlights_2021 #SpaceAmbition #AccelerateSpace #ExploreFarther | ESA - European Space Agency
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We’re almost ready to say goodbye to 2021, a year in which we once more succeeded in continuing operations in a challenging global situation, and created important milestones in European spaceflight 👉 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2021/12/ESA_highlights_2021 #SpaceAmbition #AccelerateSpace #ExploreFarther | ESA - European Space Agency
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The sound of rocket science 🚀🎶 📹 @europeanspaceagency 📸 ESA-S. Corvaja 🎞️ ESA/ @arianegroup / @arianespace / @cnes_france | ESA - European Space Agency
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The sound of rocket science 🚀🎶 📹 @europeanspaceagency 📸 ESA-S. Corvaja 🎞️ ESA/ @arianegroup / @arianespace / @cnes_france | ESA - European Space Agency
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"Today we inaugurated a new launch complex in Kiruna in northern Sweden," said ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher. Spaceport Esrange is a critical asset that will strengthen Europe’s launch capability, improve our competitiveness and continue to guarantee European access to space 👉 https://sscspace.com/inauguration-of-mainland-europes-first-satellite-launch-complex/ SSC - Swedish Space Corporation European Commission EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme | ESA - European Space Agency
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For 40 years, ESA has been shaping the future in space. That continues as brand-new rockets are set to take flight: some reusable, carbon-neutral, hybrid, little, large, crewed, uncrewed, to Earth orbit and to deep space — the journey continues. 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAr_8cNL1nk | ESA - European Space Agency
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What’s it like to work as an Engineer for the European Space Agency? 🚀 Meet Esther, our System Engineer, currently working on the Proba-3 mission. Proba-3 is scheduled to liftoff on Wednesday, 4 December, at 11:38 CET from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India, Proba-3 will use two satellites to create the perfect conditions for observing the Sun’s corona. One satellite features a telescope, kept in the centre of the shadow cast by the other satellite around 150 m away, thanks to an occulter
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ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti demonstrates how she has her morning coffee in space ☕ "Having a nice cup of coffee looks slightly different in space… 😉 Check it out!" she says. 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/@astrosamantha/video/7153543323846823174 #MissionMinerva #SpaceTok International Space Station | ESA - European Space Agency
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Understanding ESA's Budget and Funding Sources
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🎉 #50YearsOfESA: for half a century, we've been serving Europe as its space agency and inspiring its citizens. Join us this anniversary year to reflect not only on our past achievements, but also on our future perspectives! | ESA - European Space Agency
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We have driven the European space economy for fifty years and will continue, for decades to come. Here are the 5 goals we aim to reach by 2024. GOAL 1- PROTECT OUR PLANET AND CLIMATE By giving Europe the eyes in the sky it needs to monitor and understand the changes and threats that impact our world, we help anticipate and mitigate them, and makes Europe and the world more resilient and sustainable for everyone. GOAL 2 - EXPLORE AND DISCOVER By constantly pushing the limits of human knowledge an
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Did you experience flight delays in November 2025? 🛬In November 2025, Airbus recalled some of its aircraft fleet for a software update following an intense solar radiation event - a reminder that space weather doesn’t stop at the edge of space.Solar eruptions can light up the sky with auroras, but they can also disturb the environment around Earth. And at cruising altitude, aircraft are high enough to feel those effects.So if your flight was delayed last November, the Sun might have been part o
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Is our spacecraft ready to go to space? 🚀 Our Hera spacecraft is being operated for around three weeks in hard vacuum, while being subjected to the same temperature profiles it will experience during its journey to the Didymos binary asteroid system. More than 400 thermal sensors have been placed in and around Hera to let us know what is going on, and the test is being supervised on a 24/7 basis in case anything strange happens. 📹 @europeanspaceagency 📸 @europeanspaceagency | ESA - European S
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How do you navigate in space? 🤔 With the stars! Jena-Optronik in Germany 🇩🇪, are providing the star-trackers for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft. #SpaceTeamEurope✨ Find out more 👇 | ESA - European Space Agency
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🚀 Reliable, affordable and independent access to space. This is our mission. 📺 Join us live on 6 November for the #SpaceSummit to find out more about how we are guaranteeing Europe’s access to space 👉 http://esawebtv.esa.int Learn more about our mission 👉 https://vision.esa.int/category/space-summit-2023 | ESA - European Space Agency
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The European Space Agency (ESA) was busy in 2024, see the highlights here. Latest Space News 👉 https://trib.al/2upO9nj Credit: ESA | Space.com
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Europe’s security starts in space 🛡️ From Galileo’s secure navigation signals to Italy’s dual-use IRIDE constellation, from independent access to space to new cyber defence capabilities in Belgium — we’re already proving that Europe can safeguard its critical space assets. Now we’re proposing to go further by building a long-term, resilient ‘system of systems’ — Earth observation, secure navigation, and communications — to support Europe’s security and defence from space. At our Council at mini
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We’re keeping time in space ⏱️ For the first time, a fully European active hydrogen maser — one of the most precise clocks on Earth — is running at our deep-space ground station in New Norcia, Australia. Why it matters? These ultra-stable clocks are the heartbeat of deep-space missions, navigation, and even fundamental physics experiments. And now, Europe has its own! 📹 @europeanspaceagency 🎞️ Safran Timing Technologies; ESA; ESA/DiGOS Potsdam GmbH; @gettyimages; @hubbleesa; ESA/BepiColombo/MT
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Robots guided from space 🤖 A team of robots explored a Mars-like landscape in Germany, guided remotely by @nasa astronaut @jonnykimusa aboard the @iss. This was the fourth and final session of the Surface Avatar experiment, a project in collaboration with @dlr.en to study how astronauts can control robots remotely to perform complex tasks on the Moon and Mars. The first part of the session simulated an exploration scenario on Mars to retrieve scattered sample containers across a rugged terrain.
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In case you missed it... #WeAreGoing. For the first time, NASA's Space Launch System rocket and NASA’s Orion Spacecraft with its European Service Module fly together. #Artemis I begins a new chapter in international human lunar exploration. #ForwardToTheMoon 📢 TURN UP THE VOLUME! 😭 | ESA - European Space Agency
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22.1 billion euros subscribed. A record. A first. And a clear message that Europe is serious about space and that ESA is the agency it trusts to deliver. To our Member States, Assosciate Members and Canada: you have written history. This is the space agency you all have created and continue to push to evolve and grow. We have record subscriptions, and for the first time, ESA has received exactly what we asked for. 📹 @europeanspaceagency 📸 ESA 🎞️ ESA | ESA - European Space Agency
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We just made a laser call… 265 million km away ⚡️ On 7 July 2025, we connected with @NASA’s Psyche spacecraft using light — our first-ever deep-space optical link! Two observatories in Greece. One powerful laser. A return signal from deep space. And this is just the beginning. 📹 @europeanspaceagency 📸 ESA | ESA - European Space Agency
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Next time we land on the Moon, you’ll feel like you’re right there. 🌕 We’re talking HD video, full colour, 60 frames per second. But filming on the Moon isn’t easy. Dust, harsh lighting, limited bandwidth and signal delays? Not exactly a film set. That’s why, together with @dlr.en, we ran a full-on Moonwalk simulation at the LUNA facility in Germany — complete with astronauts, sun simulators, and even lunar ‘selfies’. The goal? To perfect the footage before the real thing. Because when humanity
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Our Juice spacecraft passed its closest point to Venus on 31 August, as it completed the second of four planned gravity assists. The Venus flyby gave Juice a significant boost. When it next encounters Earth in September 2026, the spacecraft will have reached the required Jupiter transfer velocity of 11 km/s. However, Jupiter won’t be in the right place to send Juice out towards it just yet. Juice will use the Earth flyby in 2026 to further fine-tune its trajectory. After one more orbit around th
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