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Dear space community, we are expanding our horizons! You can now find us on: 🟦 Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/techno… 🟨 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/esatec… See you there! 👋
INVICTUS builds upon earlier @ESA-led technological developments and will provide a platform for industry, agencies, and academia to trial next-generation hypersonic technologies. As a pivotal step toward the development of future spaceplanes, INVICTUS will equip Europe with a…
🚀Meet INVICTUS – Europe’s new hypersonic test platform. We have joined forces with UK-based Frazer-Nash to kick off INVICTUS, a research programme with the goal of developing hypersonic technologies applicable to future reusable vehicles capable of horizontal launch. Learn…
📢 You are invited to the 7th @esa #Quantum Technology Conference, the reference point and hub for European institutions, space industry, and academia involved in quantum technologies for space! 📅 7-9 October in Crete, Greece at @FORTH_ITE. Early bird registration still open:…
OK, so it’s hot – but is it unusually hot? ESA satellites have been tracking the temperature of Earth’s oceans (where most excess atmospheric heat goes) for the past 3 decades to help tackle this question… Just one of our agency’s hallmark achievements listed in our new…
ESA Technology 2040 is not just a roadmap – it is a call to action. The document defines an integrated tech stack that keeps supply‑chains sovereign, scales through serialisation and modularity, and locks in European leadership from LEO to deep space. By 2040, we envision a…
Drumroll, please… it’s #Proba3 time! Flying 150 metres apart with millimetric precision, our satellite duo created a total solar eclipse in orbit, capturing the Sun’s mysterious corona☀️Check out the images resulting from this impressive technological feat 👉…
Breaking space news: We have made our own solar eclipse in space! 🌘 Today, we release the first images from our Proba-3 mission, which flies two spacecraft in precise formation to create artificial solar eclipses in orbit. Using a powerful instrument called a coronagraph,…
Proba-3: we did it! 🛰️🛰️☀️ Stay tuned for the first images of the mission’s artificial solar eclipse, coming later today! @RedwireSpace @infoGMV @esaoperations @esascience
🎉 #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!
🎉#50yearsOfESA: to mark our 50th anniversary, the Royal Mint of Belgium and the Royal Dutch Mint are issuing limited-edition commemorative euro coins. @ESA_nl @ESA_BE @ESA_Tech @Spaceexpo @eurospacecenter esa.int/About_Us/Brand…
🎉 #50YearsOfESA: today, 30 May, we’re celebrating 50 years since the signing of the Convention for the creation of a single European Space Agency in May 1975. esa.int/About_Us/Corpo…
ESA's #HeraMission launched six months ago! Hera has already been treated to exciting views of two planets and their moons, but there is much more to come once it reaches the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet, Dimorphos, in late 2026.🛰️🔎🪨🪨
.@ESA_Tech's #Proba3 'Coronagraph' spacecraft seen here by the onboard camera of the 'Occulter' spacecraft during autonomous formation acquisition in orbit earlier this week.
📽️Why does #HeraMission need autonomous surface feature tracking for self-driving, recently tested at🔴Mars? When Hera ventures closest to its target asteroid, it will have no other way of navigating: esa.int/Space_Safety/H…