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Hera fires its thrusters
Enabling & Support

Hera burns towards Mars

08/11/2024 4084 views 64 likes
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ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis
Space Safety

ESA moves forward with Apophis mission preparations

17/10/2024 11842 views 119 likes
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Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)
Space Safety

Hera’s first images offer parting glimpse of Earth and Moon

14/10/2024 13562 views 137 likes
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Members of the Hera operations team on launch day
Space Safety

Hera takes flight: Didymos, here we come

10/10/2024 3972 views 53 likes
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Space Safety

Planetary defence mission Hera heading for deflected astero…

07/10/2024 14637 views 40 likes
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Hera launch animation still
Space Safety

Hera launch: how to watch

04/10/2024 20147 views 91 likes
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ESA’s final observations of asteroid 2024 RW1
Space Safety

Asteroid 2024 RW1 impact – ESA analysis

09/09/2024 5948 views 18 likes
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Space Safety

Debris from DART impact could reach Earth

06/09/2024 8590 views 49 likes
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Hera departs ESA test centre
Space Safety

Goodbye Hera: asteroid mission departs ESA test centre

02/09/2024 2075 views 19 likes
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ESA's Ramses mission to asteroid Apophis
Space Safety

Introducing Ramses, ESA’s mission to asteroid Apophis

16/07/2024 26939 views 138 likes
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Near-Earth objects
Space Safety

Two large asteroids safely pass Earth just 42 hours apart

24/06/2024 36965 views 42 likes
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Meteor seen by Meteosat Third Generation Imager
Applications

Fireball witnessed by weather satellite

22/05/2024 5261 views 27 likes
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Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
Space Safety

‘Mother of Dragons’ comet visible in the night sky

26/03/2024 187423 views 124 likes
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Chelyabinsk asteroid trail
Space Safety

10 years preparing for 'Armageddon'

08/02/2024 5385 views 45 likes
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Asteroid 2024 BX1 tracked prior to impact
Space Safety

Asteroid 2024 BX1 spotted three hours before impact

25/01/2024 8313 views 26 likes
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Juventas studies asteroid's internal structure
Space Safety

Hera’s mini-radar will probe asteroid’s heart

10/08/2023 4831 views 65 likes
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Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos
Science & Exploration

Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos

20/07/2023 10709 views 121 likes
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Dimorphos asteroid seen by DART
Space Safety

Imagine walking on Hera’s asteroid

30/06/2023 4502 views 78 likes
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Hera and its CubeSats at Didymos system
Space Safety

Precision deployer to put Hera’s CubeSats into asteroid orb…

29/06/2023 3263 views 41 likes
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GRASS gravimeter on shaker
Space Safety

Instrument to measure asteroid gravity tested for space

22/05/2023 5989 views 66 likes
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Hera, her CubeSats, and their rocky target destination
Space Safety

What colour is an asteroid? Hyperspectral imager to find out

24/04/2023 3049 views 44 likes
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Science & Exploration

Webb detects extremely small main-belt asteroid

06/02/2023 12194 views 125 likes
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Space Safety

Curious comet’s rare close approach

01/02/2023 35140 views 243 likes
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Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia
Space Safety

Christmas challenge: find mystery asteroid

09/12/2022 10770 views 52 likes
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Aten asteroids in orbit, with ESA's orbit visualisation tool
Space Safety

ESA asteroid toolkit: how to guide

09/12/2022 7295 views 20 likes
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Time-lapse photograph of 2022 WJ1 taken by astronomer Robert Weryk in Ontario, Canada
Space Safety

The sixth asteroid impact we saw coming

24/11/2022 58193 views 140 likes
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ESA's Optical Ground Station
Enabling & Support

ESA’s site for laser and quantum links marks 25 years

18/11/2022 2509 views 52 likes
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Artist's impression of asteroid 21 Lutetia
Space Safety

30 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising

12/10/2022 19336 views 65 likes
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LICIACube image of asteroid ejecta
Space Safety

First kinetic impact test succeeds in shifting asteroid orb…

12/10/2022 5637 views 55 likes
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Science & Exploration

Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact

29/09/2022 12729 views 116 likes
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Plume ejects from Dimorphos as DART impacts
Space Safety

ESA to capture light from deflected asteroid’s new plume

26/09/2022 24872 views 79 likes
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DART impacting asteroid
Space Safety

ESA deep space network tracks DART asteroid impact

20/09/2022 14802 views 104 likes
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Space Safety

Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthed

09/08/2022 6645 views 63 likes
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A busy field of stars hide once-risky asteroid 2021 QM1
Space Safety

Impact in 2052 ruled out as ESA counts down to Asteroid Day

29/06/2022 44039 views 73 likes
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Space Safety & Security at ESA
Space Safety

New home for Earth’s protectors

12/04/2022 9725 views 65 likes
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Kleť Observatory sees asteroid 2022 EB5, 13 minutes before impact
Space Safety

Fifth asteroid ever discovered before impact

15/03/2022 19597 views 149 likes
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Asteroid 2022 AE1 observed with the Calar Alto Schmidt telescope in Spain
Space Safety

The rise and fall of the riskiest asteroid in a decade

24/02/2022 76284 views 98 likes
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Asteroid 2020 XL5 has been confirmed as the second known Earth Trojan asteroid
Space Safety

Newly discovered asteroid just second of its kind

01/02/2022 8653 views 113 likes
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Real colour composite image of comet Leonard
Space Safety

Comet Leonard soon visible to naked eye?

08/12/2021 40767 views 151 likes
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ESA's 4.5m tracking antenna, New Norcia, Western Australia
Enabling & Support

Catching asteroid deflection mission's first words

22/11/2021 12927 views 104 likes
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NASA's DART impacting asteroid
Space Safety

Planetary defenders: after NASA’s DART comes ESA’s Hera

18/11/2021 7873 views 79 likes
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Space Safety

Scaling up ESA’s asteroid facilities

11/10/2021 5647 views 60 likes
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Milani scans Didymos
Space Safety

CubeSat will sift asteroid secrets from reflected sunshine

30/06/2021 6069 views 53 likes
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Milani studies asteroid dust
Space Safety

CubeSat named for pioneer of European planetary defence

30/06/2021 2835 views 26 likes
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Incoming asteroid
Space Safety

ESA joins Asteroid Day for rocky live broadcast

29/06/2021 4012 views 63 likes
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Space Safety
Space Safety

Hang out with Europe’s top space experts

23/06/2021 8414 views 56 likes
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Space Safety & Security at ESA
Space Safety

ESA’s digital celebration of space safety and Asteroid Day

14/06/2021 5605 views 46 likes
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Hera in space
Space Safety

The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission – Presenting …

01/06/2021 5802 views 76 likes
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Space Safety

ESA Explores a fictional asteroid impact

28/04/2021 3129 views 56 likes
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ESA's Test-Bed Telescope 2 at sunset at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile
Space Safety

New ESA telescope in South America to search for asteroids

27/04/2021 7932 views 74 likes
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