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From Earth orbit to deep space: sharing the excitement of realtime mission operations at ESA #WhereMissionsComeAlive 🛰🕹️ Home of #SpaceSafety 💙

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@ESA_Hera
ESA's Hera mission
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"Are you alive?" The two CubeSat passengers aboard #HeraMission have exchanged their first signals with Earth, confirming nominal status. The shoebox-sized pair were switched on to check out all their systems in deep space
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ESA Operations
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ESA's Solar Orbiter has made first contact with an ancient and mysterious world… Cornwall! Commercial deep space antennas like @goonhillyorg can help us optimise data downlink and allow ESA antennas to focus on supporting our most distant missions.
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ESA Operations
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Hera's first deep space manoeuvre is underway! On 23 October, @ESA_Hera fired its three orbital control thrusters for ~100 minutes to line it up for next year's gravity assist at Mars. A second, smaller burn on 6 November will be used to iron out any inaccuracy from the first.
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@ESA_transport
ESA Space Transport
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A look at the environmental sustainability of space transportation: 🛰️🌍🚀
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@esaspaceflight
Human Spaceflight
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Dad-daughter team decodes 'alien' signal. 👾👾👾👾👾 It is an image of five amino acids, sent by Europe's Mars orbiter @ESA_TGO and intercepted by radio observatories on Earth over a year ago. Code cracked, but what does it mean? #asigninspace
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@AschbacherJosef
Josef Aschbacher
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The Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses) must launch in early 2028 in order to arrive at the infamous Apophis asteroid as it passes Earth. Accepting this urgency, @ESA ’s Member States approved the use of existing funds earlier this year to begin preparatory work
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@esa
European Space Agency
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☄️ One step closer to Apophis! We have signed a contract with OHB Italia SpA to begin preparatory work on our proposed Ramses mission to the infamous asteroid Apophis. Ramses aims to rendezvous with the asteroid and accompany it through its close encounter with Earth in 2029.
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@esa_earthcare
ESA's EarthCARE mission
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This time last week, there was a dazzling #aurora display for many. We actually had to adapt our orbit manoeuvre plan to account for the solar storm impact. #SpaceWeather can make things a bit soupy up there for low Earth orbit satellites, as @esaoperations can attest! 🕹️ But
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@ESA_Hera
ESA's Hera mission
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There goes planet Earth… This short animated gif of our homeworld combines 45 images returned by #HeraMission ’s Asteroid Framing Camera (acquired for instrument testing) to show approximately an hour and a half of our planet’s rotation, put together manually by AFC Principal
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@ESA_transport
ESA Space Transport
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Stacking Vega-C for #Sentinel1 -C. The second stage of the Vega-C rocket was installed on the launchpad yesterday at Europe's Spaceport.
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@ESA_JUICE
ESA's Juice mission
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Another icy world explorer sets off! We're looking forward to meeting @EuropaClipper at Jupiter to explore this system and the secrets it holds.
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@AschbacherJosef
Josef Aschbacher
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Today the #ZeroDebrisCharter goes intercontinental: 🇳🇿 New Zealand 🇲🇽Mexico + 22 other entities and organisations have signed on at #IAC2024 , bringing the total to over 100 signatories. What is significant about today's signatures, is that they are representative of countries
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@esa
European Space Agency
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🛰️ We have signed a contract with @D_Orbit to develop our RISE mission at @IAC2024 . Set for launch in early 2028, with a lifetime of 8 years, RISE will push the boundaries of in-orbit servicing. Find out more ➡️ #IAC2024
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@esa
European Space Agency
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🌎 Farewell, Earth! 👋 Last week, after we successfully launched our Hera mission, its instruments were switched on for the first time and the asteroid deck was pointed back towards our planet. This allowed Hera to capture the first images of Earth and the Moon from a distance
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@ESAJuiceBar
Juice Bar
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ESA Operations
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Didymos, here we come!! @ESA_Hera 's name has been added to the historic wall inside ESA's Main Control Room following the successful completion of the #HeraMission 's 'Launch and Early Orbit Phase'.
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@ESA_EO
ESA Earth Observation
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The @CopernicusEU #Sentinel1 C satellite is now out of the shipping container that kept it safe while travelling to the launch site in French Guiana. The satellite is set to liftoff on 3 December🚀 📸Credits: ESA-CNES-ARIANESPACE/Optique vidéo du CSG–S. Martin
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