Most significant

6 years ago

Third European service module for Orion to ferry astronauts on Moon landing
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NASA and ESA have a long term plan for Europe to deliver the European Service Modules for Orion. With NASA’s announcement to bring humans back to the lunar surface before the end of 2024, it was also decided that the third ESA-provided European Service Module will contribute to this mission.
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6 years ago

ESA microchip on Moon
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Technology image of the week: China’s Chang’e-4 mission on the far side of the Moon is employing an ESA-developed LEON microprocessor
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6 years ago

ESA microchip on Moon
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Technology image of the week: China’s Chang’e-4 mission on the far side of the Moon is employing an ESA-backed LEON microprocessor
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6 years ago

#nofilter
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Human and robotic exploration image of the week: Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface, taken by Neil Armstrong after Apollo 11 Moon landing
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6 years ago

ESA identifies demand for satellites around the Moon
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Dozens of very different commercial and institutional missions to the Moon are planned for the coming decades. These encompass everything from NASA’s manned Lunar Gateway research station and cubesats from start-ups and universities to commercial landers carrying rovers. The heightened interest in going to the Moon shows that there could be a market in providing satellite communications beyond Earth.
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6 years ago

To the Moon – down south
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Half a century ago humans stepped on the Moon for the first time in a set of sorties that awed the world. Over the years since we have explored our Solar System with robotic scouts and established a permanent human presence in space with the International Space Station.
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6 years ago

Apollo 11 launch pad
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Celebrating 50 years since Apollo 11 blasted off carrying the first humans that would walk on the Moon, Copernicus Sentinel-2 captures this historic launch site
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6 years ago

Lunar eclipse
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Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s SMART-1 spacecraft captured this view of a lunar eclipse on its way to the Moon in 2004
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6 years ago

October’s ESA Open Day looks to the Moon
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Come to ESA’s technical heart this October to meet veteran Apollo astronauts and hear from engineers designing future European missions to the Moon. This year’s ESA Open Day at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, will take place on Sunday 6 October – everyone is welcome.
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6 years ago

October’s ESA Open Day looks to the Moon
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UPDATE: REGISTRATIONS NOW FULLY BOOKED Come to ESA’s technical heart this October to meet veteran Apollo astronauts and hear from engineers designing future European missions to the Moon. This year’s ESA Open Day at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, will take place on Sunday 6 October – everyone is welcome.
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