We turn 50! 🎉 Meet some of the brilliant people behind half a century of missions, discoveries, and innovation. Roy Gibson was our very first Director General. Born in 1924, he led the Agency from its foundation in 1975 until 1980. Ulf Merbold was our first astronaut to fly in space, as part of the crew of the STS-9 Spacelab 1 mission on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1983. Claudie Haigneré made history in 2001 as the first female European astronaut on a ‘taxi flight’ to the International Space Stat
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We turn 50! 🎉 Meet some of the brilliant people behind half a century of missions, discoveries, and innovation. Roy Gibson was our very first Director General. Born in 1924, he led the Agency from its foundation in 1975 until 1980. Ulf Merbold was our first astronaut to fly in space, as part of the crew of the STS-9 Spacelab 1 mission on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1983. Claudie Haigneré made history in 2001 as the first female European astronaut on a ‘taxi flight’ to the International Space Stat
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Europe’s space ambition
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The Earth observation programmes of the European Space Agency (ESA): overview of current and future concepts
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A very cool time-lapse video! ESA's giant 35m Deep Space Antenna (DSA) 2 station is part of the Agency's global ESTRACK network. The station is located at Cebreros, Spain, and is remotely controlled during routine operations from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. The station regularly communicates with Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta and missions from partner agencies. | ESA - European Space Agency
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A very cool time-lapse video! ESA's giant 35m Deep Space Antenna (DSA) 2 station is part of the Agency's global ESTRACK network. The station is located at Cebreros, Spain, and is remotely controlled during routine operations from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. The station regularly communicates with Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta and missions from partner agencies. | ESA - European Space Agency
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Four out of four! ⚡️ This summer, we pulled off something historic: four successful laser links with @NASA’s Psyche spacecraft — over 300 million kilometres away. From mountaintops in Greece, our team fired laser beams across the Solar System, caught signals just a few photons strong, and even received… a cat video. Yes, the first-ever interplanetary cat chasing a laser! Why does it matter? Because optical communications can one day send huge amounts of data across deep space at lightning speed
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Four out of four! ⚡️ This summer, we pulled off something historic: four successful laser links with @NASA’s Psyche spacecraft — over 300 million kilometres away. From mountaintops in Greece, our team fired laser beams across the Solar System, caught signals just a few photons strong, and even received… a cat video. Yes, the first-ever interplanetary cat chasing a laser! Why does it matter? Because optical communications can one day send huge amounts of data across deep space at lightning speed
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We have driven the European space economy for fifty years and will continue, for decades to come. Here are the 5 goals we aim to reach by 2024. GOAL 1- PROTECT OUR PLANET AND CLIMATE By giving Europe the eyes in the sky it needs to monitor and understand the changes and threats that impact our world, we help anticipate and mitigate them, and makes Europe and the world more resilient and sustainable for everyone. GOAL 2 - EXPLORE AND DISCOVER By constantly pushing the limits of human knowledge an
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#HowWeMakeASpaceMission: the European Service Module for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft spreads its wings. This is a solar array wing deployment test after the transatlantic journey from Airbus Space in the Netherlands to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, See http://blogs.esa.int/orion/2019/03/29/final-pieces-arrive-to-complete-assembly-of-orion-spacecraft/ #ForwardToTheMoon | ESA - European Space Agency
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What happened to the European Space Agency?
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2025 was a landmark year for Europe in space 🚀 From celebrating 50 years of ESA to new missions and scientific breakthroughs, the year reaffirmed Europe’s leadership in science, exploration, climate action and innovation. 🎥 Watch our highlights video: | ESA - European Space Agency
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When the Sun erupts three times in 48 hours, Earth feels it ☀️ In November 2025, our star unleashed a rapid sequence of solar outbursts that swept across space and triggered a severe geomagnetic storm here on Earth. Scientists detected radio blackouts lasting up to an hour, rare high-energy particles breaking through our magnetic shield, and stunning auroras far from the poles. Even so, the storm caused minimal disruption on the ground, and our missions - from low-Earth orbit to deep space - rec
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📢 We have a new education channel on YouTube! ESA Education offers a thrilling mix of content like: 👩🏻‍🔬🔬 Hands-on experiments and how-to demos. 🔭🌌 Engaging explainers on space science, technology and engineering . 📹🛰️ Inspiring vlogs and documentaries about student-built space missions . 🧩 Interactive resources for kids, families, students, teachers and all educators. 🎬 👩🏻‍🚀 Behind-the-scenes of exciting space careers at ESA and beyond! Subscribe now to discover (or fuel!) your pa
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We’re keeping time in space ⏱️ For the first time, a fully European active hydrogen maser — one of the most precise clocks on Earth — is running at our deep-space ground station in New Norcia, Australia. Why it matters? These ultra-stable clocks are the heartbeat of deep-space missions, navigation, and even fundamental physics experiments. And now, Europe has its own! 📹 @europeanspaceagency 🎞️ Safran Timing Technologies; ESA; ESA/DiGOS Potsdam GmbH; @gettyimages; @hubbleesa; ESA/BepiColombo/MT
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Europe's space ambitions on the right trajectory, ESA Director General says
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A special European Space Agency - ESA council last week, a bittersweet one, that will unavoidably be my last. As Josef Aschbacher announced very flatteringly, I am retiring from ESA after almost four… | Toni Tolker-Nielsen | 19 comments
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Where does our budget come from?💰 Our mandatory activities (space science programmes and the general budget) are funded by a financial contribution from all the Agency’s Member States, calculated in accordance with each country’s gross national product. In addition, we conducts a number of optional programmes. Each Member State decides in which optional programme they wish to participate and the amount they wish to contribute. How big is our budget? Our budget for 2025 is €7.68 billion. We oper
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We have a long history of studying the Sun from space. Since the launch of Ulysses in 1990, we have led or cooperated on several Sun-exploring missions including SOHO, Cluster and Proba-2. Soon it'll be the turn of Solar Orbiter. | ESA - European Space Agency
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Though it has been fifty years since humans first stepped on the Moon, we haven’t forgotten about Earth’s natural satellite. Several missions since Apollo have taught us so much about the Moon and have paved the way for humankind to return. Our Moon scientist James Carpenter gives us an overview of these missions and future exploration of the Moon. Join the challenge: http://www.esa.int/mooncamp Image credits: ESA, NASA, ISRO, SpaceIL, CNSA | ESA - European Space Agency
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The Space Agency That's Quietly Changing Everything We Know About the Universe
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Europe must be ambitious to stay ahead in the space race, says ESA
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ESA 2025: A fifty-years legacy of building the future
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