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Lange Nacht der #Wissenschaften am TROPOS am 20.6.25 ab 18 Uhr - u.a. mit: Wenn #Wasser tanzt: Die faszinierende Welt von #Tropfen & #Eis in #Wolken; Der geheimnisvolle grüne #Strahl am Leipziger Nachthimmel. ACD-C – das doppelte Solarium für Teilchen; Start eines #Wetterballons; #Lasershow in den Wolken; #EngageMINT & Mit Leipziger Wissen das #Wetter aus dem #All beobachten > tropos.de/aktuelles/veranstalt / #LndWLeipzig #LeipzigweißBescheid #wisseninleipzig #lidar #ACTRISD @leibnizwgl @esa

Esto es una preciosidad, y otro avance de la ciencia. En la misión #SolarOrbiter 🚀de la @esa se ha fotografiado por primera vez los polos solares. Mucho talento andaluz en ella agenciasinc.es/Noticias/Tecnol Imágenes en las diferentes longitudes de ondas ☀️youtu.be/Ed8e6yF68wQ?si=JMWwuL

The ispace EUROPE-led consortium was awarded an initial pre-Phase A contract for the Mission for Advanced Geophysics and Polar Ice Exploration (MAGPIE) in December 2024. MAGPIE is being developed under ESA’s Small Missions for Exploration programme, which was introduced to support low-cost, rapid-development space missions that advance Europe’s exploration objectives.

ArianeGroup has successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests of a 3D-printed, flight-configured 240N hydrogen peroxide thruster.

Work on the project’s first phase began in the second half of 2024 and focused on identifying the technology maturation needs for a reusable upper stage demonstrator. This phase also included an assessment of potential commercial applications for the technology.

Kann die Erde vor einem Asteroideneinschlag geschützt werden? 🛡️🌎 Mit der Hera-Mission der @esa testet Europa, ob sich ein Asteroid gezielt ablenken lässt. Dafür hat das DLR das Gravimeter GRASS mitentwickelt, das auf dem Asteroidenmond Dimorphos landen und dort die Schwerkraft messen wird. Was bringt das? Ein besseres Verständnis über den inneren Aufbau von Dimorphos – Wissen, das hilft, die Erde vor künftigen Einschlägen zu schützen.👉 Mehr im neuen DLR-Blogartikel: s.dlr.de/HERA

On 7 May, ESA announced the signing of the agreement, stating that the cooperation would focus on activities in low Earth orbit, with provisions for potential future missions to the Moon. The announcement specifically outlined plans to work together on the “interoperability of rendezvous and docking systems to allow their respective spacecraft to work together.” Other near-term areas of collaboration outlined in the agreement include astronaut training, analogue space missions on Earth, and parabolic flight training.

🌾 🛰️ With help of satellite observations, #AI and process-based models, the research project #EOAgriTwin creates digital twins of agricultural landscapes for climate resilient farming – powered by @esa, ZALF & partners! 🌍

🌍 TerraMind: A breakthrough in global-scale Earth observation!Developed by JSC, IBMResearch , @esa , and @DLR this any-to-any multimodal model fuses satellite imagery, elevation data, land use maps & language. TerraMind leads the field on the PANGAEA benchmark.

Recently, we got one of our best views yet of the tiny moon when a European mission named Hera, en route to the asteroid Didymos, flew through the Martian system for a gravity assist. During this transit, the spacecraft came within just 300 km of Deimos.

¡Qué importante es la divulgación científica! Juan Luis Cano de @esa hoy nos ha aclarado muchas dudas sobre la defensa planetaria. Ha sido una magnífica intervención.

The European Space Agency (ESA) released the first batch of images and data for its Euclid space telescope. The images focus on Euclid’s three deep field areas, patches of sky the telescope will observe dozens of times to peer deep into the cosmos. Though the new release only contains Euclid’s first look into these areas, it has already provided astronomers with a treasure trove of data on galaxies and other cosmic phenomena.

El asteroide 2024 YR4 sigue de plena actualidad. El lunes 7 de abril a las 19 h, Juan Luís Cano de la oficina de Defensa Planetaria de la @esa nos dará todos los detalles. ual.es/vida-universitaria/cult

As ESA’s Hera planetary defence mission flew past planet Mars it autonomously locked onto dozens of impact craters and other prominent surface features to track them over time, in a full-scale test of the self-driving technology that the spacecraft will employ to navigate around its target asteroids.

#TagderRaumfahrt in #Leipzig im #MDR bei #MDRaktuell mdr.de/mdr-aktuell-nachrichten & im #MDRSachsenspiegel: mdr.de/video/mdr-videos/a/vide / @leibnizwgl @DLR #EarthCARE @esa

Airbus Defence and Space will build the landing platform for ESA’s ExoMars rover, replacing a critical component originally to be provided by Russia.

During last week's 2nd EarthCARE in-orbit validation workshop of @esa & @jaxa_en , Level-2 products were made public! Learn more via ESA here: earth.esa.int/eogateway/news/l

During a press briefing following the 332nd ESA Council meeting, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher announced that the agency will publish a call for proposals for the European Launcher Challenge in the coming week.

French launch startup MaiaSpace has secured its first commercial customer, signing a launch services agreement with in-space logistics company Exotrail.

In a 12 March update, Isar Aerospace announced that the Norwegian Space Agency had awarded the German rocket builder the contract to launch both AOS-D and AOS-P. The satellites will be launched aboard a Spectrum rocket from the Andøya Spaceport in Norway by 2028.

La misión #HERA (de defensa planetaria) de @esa ya está por Marte y ha pillado a Deimos en la foto. Todos los datos en el enlace esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera

In a 28 February POLSA update, the agency confirmed that the information regarding the uncontrolled re-entry of the Falcon 9 second stage had been sent to the wrong email addresses at the Ministry of National Defence.

German rocket builder Isar Aerospace has signed a launch services agreement with Japanese in-space logistics company ElevationSpace, securing a Spectrum rocket flight for the AOBA re-entry demonstrator.

The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lunar lander has completed a historic touchdown on the surface of the Moon, powered by an engine designed and built by Nammo UK with support from the European Space Agency.

SpaceForest was founded in 2011 and is developing an 11.5-metre suborbital rocket capable of carrying up to 50 kilograms to an altitude of 150 kilometres. The company conducted two initial PERUN test flights in 2023, but both suffered anomalies that forced mission aborts before the rockets reached the 50-kilometre target.