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Go to topicESA is getting ready to show thousands of visitors how space improves life on Earth at its very first open day to be held in the UK.
This unique event will take place on Saturday 29 June at ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT), located on Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire.
As part of the ESA open day, ECSAT and many of its partners on campus will be on show in a packed programme of talks and demonstrations held on 29 June at ECSAT’s Magali Vaissiere Conference Centre, located next door to the main ECSAT building.