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#ESATech @ the European Space Agency. Follow the latest news, developments and new technologies from ESA's R&D Directorate

ESTEC Noordwijk, Netherlands
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@ESA_History
ESA space history
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#OTD 7 May 2013, launch of #ESA 's #ProbaV satellite 🛰️ on @vega_sts VV02 🚀 from @EuropeSpacePort in Kourou to map land cover & vegetation growth 🔗
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📡Without antennas, space missions wouldn’t happen. Not only do antennas link with Earth, they can also serve as data-gathering instruments. Working in this field? Present your research at @ESA ’s 42nd Antenna Workshop this November! Call for abstracts open until the end of May…
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Galileo, Europe’s satellite navigation system, is not only incredibly reliable but also integral to our daily lives, supporting an ever-growing list of fields: 📍finding your way 🌾agriculture ⛑️search and rescue 🤖robotics 🚗✈️🛳️autonomous driving & drones Already impressed?…
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Ian
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While going through QAR, we move #HeraMission to a very special place to run our last tests. Electromagnetic compatibility. Hera’s asteroid deck is 🤩
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🌐⛑️ #DYK European satnav system #Galileo assists in 1000s of rescues? 📳🛰️Galileo satellites can pick up signals from emergency beacons on ships, planes or people and relay the alert + precise location to national rescue centres. Galileo is also automatically activated when…
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The @ESA Young Professionals Satellite, #YPSat - developed by young Agency personnel in their free time to document the inaugural flight of #Ariane6 from the inside - has been delivered to @Arianespace
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📽️The @ESA #HeraMission 's liftoff this October is only the start - @ESAOperations ' Flight Dynamics team has planned a 2-year odyssey to Hera's target binary asteroid, including a swingby of Mars🔴
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🌐 #DYK that with European satnav system #Galileo you can locate yourself within an A4 paper sheet?🤯 Galileo, with satellites 23,222 km above, commits to 2 m accuracy, but it often outperforms, boasting under 1 m precision! High Accuracy Service takes it up a notch, offering 20…
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@deepbluedot
Ian
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thanks so much for visiting the #HeraMission @esa let's bring some music to space ;-)
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The #HeraMission for #asteroid #PlanetaryDefence will make a swingby of #Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target binary asteroid system while also surveying Martian moon Deimos
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Few people ever get to venture inside our #ESTEC Test Centre in 🇳🇱- Europe's largest site for satellite testing - but you can now take your own immersive virtual tour!
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ESRIC
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New #podcast episode available: in this episode of Resourceful, we have invited Dr Kathryn Hadler, Director of ESRIC to tell us more about the outcomes of Space Resources Week 204 #SpaceResWeek #SpaceExploration #Science 🎧👉
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Matthias Maurer
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Congratulations again 🤗 to my dear @esa #Hoppers colleagues - now that you all got your wings you are ready to abandon gravity. ✈️🚀 @Soph_astro @Astro_Pablo_A @Astro_Rosemary @ESAastro_Marco @Raph_Astro @AussieAstroKat @iamfivetoes @DLR_de
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🤔 #DYK Galileo was born in the Netherlands in the 1990s? Europe’s own satellite navigation system Galileo was developed in ESA’s technological heart, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, almost 3 decades ago. It is now one of the most complex and critical infrastructures ever built in Europe,…
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🇪🇺 DG DEFIS #StrongerTogether
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#Galileo Snippets 🇪🇺🛰️ #DYK that thanks to the Galileo Search and Rescue Service, authorities locate people in distress in less than 10 minutes and with an accuracy below 5km? 406MHz Cospas-Sarsat approved beacons are required #EUSpace
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#HeraMission 's Juventas #CubeSat - one of the small missions changing the rules of space. This year's 4S Small Satellites Systems and Services Symposium in Palma de Mallorca 🇪🇸 on 27-31 May has the theme of 'Space Transformation'. Register to attend:
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@AschbacherJosef
Josef Aschbacher
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Today’s graduation marks the end of basic training, bringing the number of @ESA astronauts to 11, and coming from 8 Member States. Thanks to this enlarged family, we are ensuring both our long-term participation in key programs such as the @Space_Station and Artemis.…
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