📣Calling amateur radio enthusiasts around the world, help us catch OPS-SAT's final signals!
OPS-SAT has spent the last five years helping universities, companies and space agencies test new technologies in orbit for the first time.
Its mission has now come to an end and it…
One satellite image and so many interesting spots!
⛰️One of the highest point in Namibia (Brandberg Massif)
🌋The ring-shaped Messum Crater, part of a collapsed volcano
☄️The Doros Crater, formed by a meteor impact event
📡ESA's deep space antenna in Argentina is chasing the rising Sun today.
Why? Because it's currently downlinking data from ISRO's Aditya-L1 solar observatory. Aditya orbits the first Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, so it is always close to the Sun in the sky.☀️
📽️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🔴
Spacecraft have their own voice. They talk, and we listen. It also goes the other way around. 🛰️🗣️📡👂
Discover the talkative side of the Earth Return Orbiter, the first spacecraft to make a full round-trip from Earth to
#Mars
.
An
@esa
engineer explains how Europe is making…
🚨📽️WATCH:
#HeraMission
is
@ESA
's
#asteroid
detective, headed to a double asteroid system already impacted by
@NASA
's
#DARTmission
.
Then what happened? The latest episode of our Incredible Adventures animation explains the missing info Hera needs to find on DART's collision
👏 Congratulations to the
@ESA_Euclid
team, which has received this year’s Space Achievement Award from the Space Foundation!
ESA Director General
@AschbacherJosef
and ESA Director of Science
@CGMundell
were handed the award at the
#SpaceSymposium
in Colorado Springs.