Thirty six percent of the way but doing more than just cruising away! Since @esa.int 's Juice mission launched #onthisday in 2023, it has already hit incredible milestones!
🌍🌖 A pioneering Lunar–Earth flyby
☀️🟠 A Venus flyby
💫📸 An unprecedented 3I/ATLAS observation campaign
Happy launch-versary!🚀
Deep space antenna 4 is now live! 📡
@esa.int's newest deep space antenna has entered operations at New Norcia, Australia, expanding Estrack’s capacity and powering future missions across the Solar System.
Curious about this next-generation antenna? Read more here: www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
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ESAW 2026: one more week to register!
📢10th European Mission Operations Ground Segment Software & Architecture Workshop (ESAW).
📍 ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany
🗓️15–16 April 2026
Claim your spot to help boost ground segment ecosystem innovation! ➡️ atpi.eventsair.com/esaw2026/
🚨New article alert🚨From icy moons to icy interstellar objects! 💫
If you were wowed by @esa.int 's Juice images of 3I/ATLAS, you’ll be even more wowed when you learn how the mission team managed to pull off the unprecedented observation campaign. 🛰️
Read here 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
🚨NEW RELEASE🚨
The ESA #SpaceWeather Portal version 3.15.0 was released on 5 March 2026 with 🆕 and updated products and tools 🧑🔧
We will take you through the✨highlights in the following weeks, in the meantime take a look for yourself!👇
🌐https://swe.ssa.esa.int
#SpaceSafety
A successful deep-space manoeuvre has put ESA’s Hera spacecraft on course for arrival at the Didymos binary asteroid system later this year!
At Didymos, Hera will help turn asteroid deflection into a reliable technique for protecting Earth 🛡️🌍
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Students participating in ESA’s Mission Operations Hands-on Experience in the Main Control Room at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC). The mission control room features multiple rows of workstations and large wall‑mounted displays showing mission data. Students wearing headsets sit at consoles, while others stand and talk in the background. The ESA logo and information boards are visible under a dark, perforated ceiling with numerous lights.
Want to experience for yourself what it’s like to help operate an @esa.int spacecraft? 🛰️
Register for ESA's 11th Mission Operations Hands-on Experience by 16 March 2026, 12:00 CET.
Where? ESOC, Darmstadt. When? 20–24 April 2026.
Limited seats still available: indico.esa.int/event/622/
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Did you see a flash of light in the sky over central Europe last night?
ESA's Planetary Defence team is analysing the event. Info at:
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
Video credit: ALLSKY7 / Bernd Klemt – AMS76 Herkenrath/DE
Link to our article here 👉www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operati...
To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay, we interviewed five women flying spacecraft at the European Space Operations Centre (#ESOC). Take a look at what they said about their experiences flying spacecraft and perspectives on inclusion. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 💪
#IWD2026
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Space missions have greatly enriched our understanding of Earth and the Universe, and our modern society has become dependent on essential satellite services.
But there's a problem: we've brought our bad habits with us into orbit: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Look out for the 10th perihelion later this year!
Operations engineers in the Main Control Room at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) during Solar Orbiter's launch in February 2020. The image shows people sitting at a long console with many computer screens. The people are watching the computer screens and pointing to things outside of the image frame.
🛰️☀️ Solar Orbiter hits its 9th perihelion this week, diving to 0.29 AU from the Sun.
This kicks off a 10 day Remote Sensing Window where teams rapidly plan, image, analyse and reorient the spacecraft – a showcase of ESA’s teamwork near our star. ⭐
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A white, glowing egg-shaped object lies in the centre of the black-and-white image, on a dark, starry background. Glowing streaks spread upwards from the object. In the top left, a yellow arrow marked ‘Sun’ points straight down, and a blue arrow marked ‘Velocity’ points towards the 7 o’clock direction. In the bottom left, an inset shows the same object on a lighter grey starry background, filled with ragged-edged, concentric egg shapes gradiented black-to-white.
Our first glimpse of comet 3I/ATLAS from Juice's science camera 😍☄️
The precious data from the mission's November observations of the interstellar comet arrived on Earth last week. Teams are now digging in to discover what they reveal.
Stay tuned for updates!
More 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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☄️ Asteroids have struck Earth before - and they will again...
Learn how the Planetary Defence team in ESA's Space Safety Programme is working to detect, track and deflect dangerous asteroids: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
A digital graphic featuring the ESA logo in the top right corner and the word “ESAW” in bold, glowing letters at the centre. Behind the text is a golden globe with a stylized satellite dish above it. The background consists of interconnected lines and nodes in yellow and blue, forming a network pattern.
ESAW 2026: registration now open until 1 April!
📢 10th European Mission Operations Ground Segment Software & Architecture Workshop (ESAW).
📍 ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany
🗓️ 15–16 April 2026
Help drive innovation across the ground segment ecosystem! ➡️ atpi.eventsair.com/esaw2026/
At ESA’s 2025 Ministerial Conference, the Space Safety Programme received significant support for its mission to predict, detect and mitigate space hazards, and to build towards a sustainable future in orbit. This is what we’re working on 👇
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
Usually, we move a satellite out of the way of space debris. But what if we could prevent collisions by moving the debris instead? Meet OMLET: laser-based collision avoidance from the ground: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
I had a constructive first meeting in Washington, D.C. with my counterpart at NASA, Administrator Jared Isaacman. We had a very constructive discussion on space exploration and are fully aligned on our shared objectives: the Moon, LEO, and Mars. Looking forward to continuing the discussions.
Full speed ahead to Apophis! 🚀🪨
ESA has awarded two contracts for the development of its Ramses mission, which will rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis ahead of its once-in-a-millennium flyby of Earth in 2029.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
🥳A successful workshop with lots of discussions on various subjects concerning #SpaceWeather, development & future service improvements, and more....
😍The onsite participants at @esa.int SWE Service Network Workshop group photo!
❤️ A big thank you to all the participants and the organisers!
Fun fact: we recently moved two satellites to meet a plane. Why? For valuable scientific data on atmospheric reentries.
Find out more about the why & how 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
🚨2 X flares, X1.0 and X8.1!!
Measured by GOES in the product GOES alerts from SIDC. 👉 swe.ssa.esa.int/web/guest/si...
The X flares were observed in the AR 4366/SIDC 784👇
ESA Council approved Laurent Jaffart as Director of the new Resilience, Navigation & Connectivity Directorate.
This new position reflects our commitment to bolstering resilience and enhancing navigation and connectivity in line with security and defence priorities.
www.esa.int/Newsroom/Pre...
🧐 Interested in the #SpaceWeather activity these days?
You can register to the @esa.int SWE Service Network Portal here 👉 swe.ssa.esa.int/registration/
Do you have any feedback when using the ESA SWE Portal?
📝We have a survey here for you 👇
🌐 swe.ssa.esa.int/user-feedback
Ever wondered what powers a solar flare? 💥
Solar Orbiter is finally giving us answers to this long-standing mystery.
The mission caught a 'magnetic avalanche' on the surface of the Sun just before a flare was released.
🔭🧪1/3
ESA is closely monitoring a notable space weather event, first detected at 18:09 UTC on 18 January 2026.
Aurora were observed over Europe last night and continued high levels of space weather activity are anticipated over the coming days.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
@esaspaceweather.esa.int
Beautiful aurora seen last night during high geomagnetic activity❗
Automatic auroral recognition routine classifying All-Sky Camera images acquired at the Kevo station in Northern Finland by FMI as a demonstration product👇
🌐 swe.ssa.esa.int/fmi-federated
