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ESA Operations

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ESA Operations

@esaoperations

From Earth orbit to deep space: sharing the excitement of realtime mission operations at the European Space Agency 🛰🕹️ Home of Space Safety 🛡️💙

Darmstadt, Germany

esa.int/operations

Born September 8, 1967

Joined November 2008

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The @UNOOSA Ramses panel, honoured with an introduction by Japanese ambassador Kaifu Atsushi, also included ESA Ramses mission manager Paolo Martino and Italian space agency @ASI_spazio Director General Teodoro Valente: ASI is contributing one of the mission’s two CubeSats for
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, @JAXA_en, is an important partner with @esa on Ramses, providing its TIRI infrared surface imager, lightweight solar array wings and its H3 heavy lift vehicle – detailed by Makasi Fujimoto, Director General of JAXA’s science institute ISAS
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Planetary defence is inherently international: at yesterday’s @UNOOSA Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna, representatives of @esa, @ASI_spazio & @JAXA_en discussed their Ramses mission collaboration, set to rendezvous with asteroid Apophis passing Earth on
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Mercury? Getting closer!🛰️🌑☀️ Preparations? Already kickstarted with a months-long simulations campaign!💯💯 Cameras? Rolling to capture every single bit of it!🎥👀 Stay tuned for upcoming BepiColombo news! #ESOC #BepiColombo #JAXA #Mercury
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🌈 Pride Month is here! This June, colleagues at @esa ESOC are celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community. Inclusive teams power innovation and strengthen our people, our missions and the future of the space sector. 🪐 🏳️‍🌈See you at the Darmstadt CSD in August alongside
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Saturday’s sonic boom heard over Boston was due to an airbursting meteor, as confirmed by US weather satellite GOES-19. A European geostationary weather sat performs a comparable skywatch, read more here: esa.int/Space_Safety/F…
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Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2, monitored by ESA's Planetary Defence team, makes a notably close approach to Earth this evening (but with zero chance of impact!)
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Want to learn more? Read the full article here 👉
Fireballs and lightning, very, very frightening – or not!
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🎶Fireballs and lightning… very, very exciting! Millions of lightning flashes light up Earth daily. But @eumetsat 's MTG-LI satellite is revealing fireball flashes in the data. @esa 's graduate trainee Niels Rubbrecht is helping to find these bright needles in the lightning
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📡 Calling Cebreros residents – join Cebreros Open Day in June! Get up close with @esa ’s 35 m deep space antenna linking Earth to missions like BepiColombo & Juice. 🌌 📆 7 June 2026 📍ESA’s Cebreros Ground Station, Spain 📝 In-person registration at Cebreros Town Hall on 16,
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A new chapter in the ESA—JAXA cooperation on planetary defence. 🌍 The agreement signed this week confirms collaboration on #Ramses, our mission to asteroid Apophis ahead of its rare close flyby in 2029. Space safety is a priority. 🔗 esa.int/Space_Safety/P…
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Access the video at:
Aurora, Swing and Sawa: ESA’s Space Weather sensors
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