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ESA Space Transport retweeted
Meet Argonaut: Europe's lunar lander programme 🌙
🚀 Launching on Ariane 6 rockets by end of 2030, Argonaut will deliver technology demonstrators 🤖, infrastructure 🏗️, science 🔬 and cargo 📦 to the Moon.
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ALT An Argonaut lander on the right, the wide lunar desert to the left, with hills and valleys. Credit: ESA-XR Lab.
RT @Arianespace: 🚀 VA267 – LE-04 : Ariane 6's 10th flight is on the horizon!
Arianespace is preparing to launch 36 Amazon Leo satellites a…
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“This moment could be historic.”
At #IAC2026, we discussed Europe’s future in exploration with our Member States, ahead of key decisions at the Intermediate Ministerial Meeting this December.
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ALT IAU CPS Director Piero Benvenuti and ESA Director of Operations Rolf Densing
ALT Géraldine Naja with the WIA-Europe award
ALT IAC 2026: Europe’s exploration ambition
ESA Space Transport retweeted
Sentinel-3C sent its first views of Earth!
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Envisioned, built, and launched by Europe.
@ESA keeps delivering the reliable satellites that enable the @EU_Commission's world-leading Copernicus programme.
And now, Sentinel-3C is showing us what it can do.
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ALT Sentinel-3C's first image over Italy
ESA Space Transport retweeted
📣 Journalists are invited to attend our Intermediate Ministerial Meeting in Rome on 15 December, where ESA Member States will discuss Europe’s future in space exploration.
📰 Register by 30 October: esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Relea…
#IMM26
ALT The opening session at the 2025 Ministerial Council in Bremen, Germany
ESA Space Transport retweeted
A busy few months for ESA! Catch up with the latest ESA Impact visual report, featuring the launch of FLEX and Sentinel-3C, three spacewalks in 15 days, new milestones on BepiColombo's journey to Mercury and more.
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ESA Space Transport retweeted
Inspector Smile is ready for science! 🫡
This is Smile’s first ultraviolet view showing an auroral substorm.
With the ultraviolet camera now operational, Smile becomes the first spacecraft since 2008 to capture the full ring of northern lights around the north pole in ultraviolet light.
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ESA Space Transport retweeted
A successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter.
Earlier today, @ESA_Juice flew just 8640 km above the Indian Ocean and snapped these images with its onboard monitoring cameras.
1️⃣Africa, by Juice monitoring camera 2️⃣Madagascar, by Juice NavCam
3️⃣Moon, by Juice NavCam
ALT Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left.
ALT Part of the island of Madagascar in black and white.
ALT A crescent Moon, with about a quarter of the Moon showing. Many craters are visible.
ESA Space Transport retweeted
One launch is a milestone. This is just the beginning.
We're building the foundation for reliable, scalable access to space, enabling independent access to the infrastructure that modern economies, security and innovation depend on.
ESA Space Transport retweeted
We are providing an additional €2.7 million to support Rocket Factory Augsburg as it prepares for the first RFA One test flight from SaxaVord Spaceport in the UK. 🚀
Through our Boost! programme, we’re supporting further testing and launch infrastructure ahead of RFA One’s first flight.
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ALT Nine engines on first Rocket Factory Augsburg launch vehicle
ESA Space Transport retweeted
The countdown is on!
The ‘Network Countdown’ for the dual launch of @esa's #FLEX and #Copernicus #Sentinel-3C has begun! Launch, communication and control facilities around the world are gearing up ahead of liftoff at 3:21 CEST.
Watch live at watch.esa.int/two/ or on ESA YouTube.
📷 ESA
ALT ESA Spacecraft Operations Engineer Francis Gneba sits at a console in the Main Control Room at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), monitoring multiple screens displaying spacecraft operations data and timelines. Large wall-mounted status displays and the illuminated ESA and ESOC logos are visible in the background, highlighting the active mission-control environment.
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The International Space Summit marked an important step in shaping a common European vision for space exploration. Europe has now started a course towards greater autonomy in low Earth orbit, a stronger role in lunar exploration, and a more competitive European space sector, while remaining a reliable partner in international exploration efforts.
@ESA will work closely with its Member States in the months ahead, to support decisions later this year. The work continues from the Summit, through to ESA's Intermediate Ministerial Meeting in December, and onto our Council Ministerial in 2028 and beyond✨
Read the Call to Boost European Space Exploration to see what the Ministers of the European Space Agency declared during the #ParisSpaceSummit
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Will we be passengers or pilots? Customers or service providers? Tenants or architects? At the International Space Summit, I argued that Europe must take steps now to shape its own future in space.
Read my full speech 🧑🚀🚀
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#ParisSpaceSummit
ESA Space Transport retweeted
Last night we brought together astronauts, ministers, industry leaders and space enthusiasts to celebrate the imagination, innovation and cooperation that define Europe's journey in space.
From Earth orbit to deep space, we were reminded that today's ambitions become tomorrow's achievements.
Today we begin to shape Europe's future in space. #ParisSpaceSummit
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Payloads delivered: Mission Success for 'Onward and Upward'! On board: CubeSats from TU Berlin, University of Maribor, @EnduroSat, NTNU, and TU Wien Space Team, and an experiment by @Dcubedspace. All selected through the @DLR_de at DLR's Microlauncher Competition and supported through @esa Boost! Thank you for flying with us!
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A historic night for European spaceflight.
Huge congratulations to @danielmetzler and the entire @isaraerospace team on reaching orbit with Spectrum 🚀 from continental Europe.
Spectrum quite literally rose to the challenge and delivered its payloads in low Earth orbit. An astounding achievement by German company Isar, founded only eight years ago. This is exactly the kind of ambition and commercial dynamism Europe needs.
Commercialisation has been at the heart of ESA’s strategy, and the European Launcher Challenge is that strategy put into action following the 2023 Seville Summit.
ESA will continue supporting Isar and Europe’s other new launch providers as they move from demonstration to reliable operations and scale.
There is still a long road ahead, but this is a major milestone.
Congratulations, Daniel and team. Europe is accelerating! Onward and upward! 🚀
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ESA Space Transport retweeted
We’re in orbit! And just made European history: This is the first time a privately developed rocket reached orbit from continental Europe; and a testament to the dedication, expertise, and teamwork of everyone involved.
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We are GO for countdown to launch Mission ‘Onward and Upward’ NET 05 September, 8pm UTC; 10pm CEST, subject to weather, safety and range clearance.
Follow the launch live: youtube.com/live/Ss1DUqLjecc…
ESA Space Transport retweeted
August was a busy month at ESA 🌘👩🚀🚀🔴 Here's your monthly roundup from the European Space Agency.
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Success! ✅ MTG-I2 is on its way to geostationary orbit.
After acquiring signal, the satellite has been confirmed healthy.
As the third satellite in the Meteosat Third Generation constellation, MTG-I2 will provide weather forecasters with unprecedented views of Europe and Africa, helping to improve forecasts and deliver earlier warnings of severe weather.
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