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With 2018 approaching rapidly and 2017 coming to a close, ESA can look back on a fruitful year.
It has been a year dominated by the ESA astronaut missions to the International Space Station, the launch of more Sentinel satellites and the first launch of a small Geo satellite.
This video looks back at the highlights of 2017 for ESA.