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The European Space Agency has contracted Spanish company @emxys for the first CubeSat designed to operate on an asteroid's surface. It will be deployed by ESA's Ramses mission onto asteroid Apophis as it passes close by Earth on Friday 13 April 2029 esa.int/Space_Safety/Planeta…
ALT Ramses CubeSat approaching asteroid Apophis
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Asteroids regularly slam into Earth, but in 2022 a little bit of Earth slammed into an asteroid - in the shape of NASA's DART spacecraft hitting Dimorphos. This autumn ESA's Hera spacecraft reaches this same body to try and find out: could we save Earth from an incoming asteroid? #AsteroidDay
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🚨🪨🚨Special announcement for Asteroid Day: The UN has designated 2029 to be the International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence. This will be the year the cruise-liner-scale Apophis asteroid flies past Earth, visible to more than 2 billion pairs of eyes. New website launched! asteroids2029.org/
ALT Ramses mission inspecting asteroid Apophis as it passes Earth
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#Copernicus #Sentinel 1A has concluded its operations, closing a remarkable chapter for @ESA_EO and operations teams at @esa's #ESOC.
Now, the mission’s legacy continues with Sentinel 1C and 1D.
So long, Sentinel-1A – and thanks for all the fish! 🐠
🎥 ESA/ATG medialab
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Humans changed an🪨asteroid - now we find out how!
Especially for Asteroid Day,🎥watch the full story so far of our Hera mission🛰️, on its way thru deep space to probe the first Solar System body transformed by human action💥: esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Video…
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Want to know about our Hera asteroid mission for🪨Asteroid Day, which is on its way to the 1st asteroid changed by human action? Watch our cartoon series, starting here 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Video…
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Happy #AsteroidDay ! But why today of all days? Find out here, along with eight other key dates in asteroid history! esa.int/Space_Safety/Planeta…
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It's hot outside, and the 1-km-scale asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 flies by at lunchtime. Why not stay in and follow the Asteroid Day Festival, live from Luxembourg?
Bringing together astronauts, asteroid experts and space mission engineers, the action starts at 10 am: piped.video/watch?v=FacoaTSf…
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Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 flies past Earth on Saturday – great advertising for this weekend’s Asteroid Day festival! After a Friday evening astronomy session, Saturday's event includes astronauts, asteroid experts and engineers. Watch it live here:
piped.video/watch?v=FacoaTSf…
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The backbone of ESA's Ramses asteroid mission is now standing tall in its Bremen cleanroom. From here on in the mission is being developed in two halves in parallel, to ensure its reaches its spring 2028 launch deadline: esa.int/Space_Safety/Planeta…
ALT Ramses central core in its cleanroom
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Blue thrusters off – cruise phase ending. 🛰️💙📴
@esa & @JAXA_en 's #BepiColombo has switched off its solar electric propulsion.
What’s next? 👀
The start of #Mercury arrival in September!
Read more here 👉 esa.int/Enabling_Support/Ope…
@esascience
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🪨Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1, as monitored by ESA's Planetary Defence team, makes a close approach to Earth this Saturday that could be visible with small telescopes 🔭 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image…
ALT infographic detailing asteroid close approach
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Get up to speed in space with ESA Impact, our online summary of Europe's last three months of space activity: esa.int/About_Us/ESA_Publica…
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Programme now available for next week's International Asteroid Day festival on 26-27 June! Join us at Cercle Cité, Luxembourg, or if you can't make it in person, most talks will be streamed live on the Asteroid Day YouTube channel: asteroidday.org/events-in-lu…
ALT Asteroid Day Festival logo
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Asteroid Apophis will fly by Earth on Friday 13 April 2029. People have nothing to worry about, but scientists are excited! A workshop in Padua this week discussed ESA's Ramses mission, which will fly with the asteroid to see what Earth's gravity does to it... ramsesmission.space/workshop…
ALT Ramses workshop participants
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The end of a journey, the start of arrival 🛰️🌑☀️
After 8 years of solar electric propulsion, @esa 's @BepiColombo switches off SEP as it enters its Mercury arrival phase!
Next? MTM separation, orbit insertion & a bold new chapter around the innermost planet! 🎉
#bepicolombo
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