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https://bsky.app/profile/technology.esa.int/post/3m5jaeeg5bk2o
Published: November 13, 2025 13:08
🔧 Testing space metal 🤘
In February, @esa.int’s engineers received a very special package 📦 Inside was the first metal part 3D-printed in space, coming all the way from the ISS 🛰️ Since the unboxing, the space metal has been through A LOT 👉 …
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Published: November 11, 2025 13:38
🏠🌕 To live on the Moon or Mars, we would need technologies that can use local resources to create materials essential for our survival. The University of Bremen explored if the unique conditions of space itself could help us with this 👉…
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Published: November 11, 2025 08:59
🛰️ Our current radio frequency ‘highways’ that carry information to and from satellites are getting congested.
📡 @thalesaleniaspace.bsky.social develops key building blocks for next-generation antennas operating at a very special frequency that can offer…
https://bsky.app/profile/technology.esa.int/post/3m4i4vmos4k2f
Published: October 31, 2025 09:08
Booooo!! 👻 It’s #SpookySeason!
Can you guess what's making this candle's flame flicker? 🕯️
Is it...
a) ghost
b) microgravity
We know it’s tricky, so we’re treating you to the answer 🎃…
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Published: October 30, 2025 15:15
What if Old McDonald had a farm… on the Moon? 🚜 🌕
In a recent activity supported by @esa.int, a Norwegian research team looked into how we could create fertiliser using nutrients from lunar soil to grow plants on the Moon 👉…
https://bsky.app/profile/technology.esa.int/post/3m4d7fiaauk2p
Published: October 29, 2025 10:10
🛰️ @esa.int’s first stand-alone deep-space CubeSat #Henon takes shape!
⚡A tailor-made propulsion system will take this small but mighty satellite into an orbit around the Sun, where the CubeSat will detect solar storms, improving our current warning time…
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Published: October 20, 2025 11:06
#OnThisDay 30 years ago - 20 October 1995 - ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter performed the first ESA spacewalk, during his Euromir mission to the Mir space station 🧑🚀🚶
Check out our ESA Delivers brochure for ESA's 50 milestone achievements during our first…
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Published: October 9, 2025 09:25
🌏@esa.int’s upcoming FORUM mission will address a major gap in climate monitoring by measuring Earth’s outgoing radiation 📏
🔧⚙️ To make its ambitious goal possible, scientists from the National Metrology Institute of Germany PTB have calibrated a very…
https://bsky.app/profile/technology.esa.int/post/3m2lrtr5aps2j
Published: October 7, 2025 09:11
🛰️🖥️ Training new operators for the Large Space Simulator, Europe’s largest vacuum chamber, used to be tricky… but not anymore! The simulator recently got a digital twin - a very realistic virtual model - which will serve as a training tool and much more 👉…
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Published: September 24, 2025 08:17
🔴Moving around on Mars is tricky - its surface can be too rocky for a rover in one place, and too smooth for the navigation of a drone in another😬 During his internship with @esa.int, a robotics student investigated what would happen if a rover and a drone…
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Published: September 23, 2025 11:21
📍🌕 Landing a spacecraft on the Moon with pinpoint precision while relying on ground-based tracking systems is complex and costly. A recent PhD project, co-funded by @esa.int, @dlr-en.bsky.social and OHB explored how we could teach spacecraft to find their…
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Published: September 16, 2025 09:15
💪🏼🦴 Muscle weakening and bone density loss – side effects of microgravity bear many similarities to ageing 🚀👵🏽 A student from TU Delft and VU Amsterdam compared effects of ageing with those of altered gravity from a cellular perspective during her…
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Published: September 11, 2025 13:30
Welcome to ESTEC, Plato 👋 Good luck with all your tests! 🤞
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Published: September 9, 2025 09:49
🚨 Breaking news! 🚨
The first 7000 tickets for the ESA ESTEC Open Day were gone in just 5 hours! 🎟️✨
⏰ The next batch will open today at 14:00 - so set your timers!
👉…
https://bsky.app/profile/technology.esa.int/post/3lycylrp2ls2w
Published: September 8, 2025 10:27
🚀 Registration is now OPEN for ESTEC Open Day – General Public Day!
📅 Sunday, 12 October
📍 ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands
🔓 Register now ➡️ https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_Open_Days_2025/ESTEC_Open_Days_2025/Register_now_ESA_ESTEC_Open_Day_2025 …
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Published: September 8, 2025 07:21
🌈 What an unforgettable day at Leiden Canal Pride Parade 2025! 🌈
A huge thank you to everyone who came out to cheer, dance, and celebrate with us on the canals of Leiden. The energy, love, and joy were absolutely contagious! 🫶
Space for all ❤️…
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Published: September 7, 2025 11:28
Tomorrow’s the day! 🚀 On Monday 8 September, registration opens for the ESA ESTEC Open Day!
Don’t miss your once-a-year chance to explore space up close – including a special look at the Plato mission, ESA’s upcoming planet-hunting spacecraft 🌌🔭…
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Published: September 6, 2025 11:44
Only 2️⃣ days until registration opens for ESA ESTEC Open Day! 🚀 Bring your questions, your family, and your curiosity - and meet astronauts who have flown to space, as well as those preparing for future missions 🌍👩🏽🚀
#ESAOpenDay #50YearsOfESA #NLSW25…
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Published: September 5, 2025 16:08
Only 3️⃣ days until registration opens for ESA ESTEC Open Day! 🚀 Get ready to meet the minds behind ESA’s missions, dive into hands-on science, and enjoy an out-of-this-world experience with our partner @spacerocksofficial.bsky.social! 🌌 #ESAOpenDay…
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Published: September 5, 2025 08:03
🌈 We’re thrilled to announce that ESA ESTEC, our technical heart in the Netherlands, will join the Leiden Canal Pride Parade this Saturday at 13:30 CEST! 🚣🏾♀️ 🏳️🌈
Come cheer us on and let’s celebrate diversity together! #SpaceForAll ❤️
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Published: September 4, 2025 07:53
🚀 The ESA ESTEC Open Day is almost here! Over the years, thousands of curious minds have joined us to explore the future of space... and this year we're inviting them again!
Registration opens in 4 days! 📅 Monday 8 September
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Published: September 2, 2025 08:16
Today at #ESTEC in 🇳🇱 we celebrate 30 years of ESA Navigation activities, which resulted in the world's most accurate satellite navigation system, Galileo - one of our 50 hallmark achievements in our 50 year anniversary!…
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Published: August 8, 2025 07:33
Happy #InternationalCatDay from Micky, our very own space cat! 😸 🚀 This cuddly furball resides at ESTEC, ESA’s technology centre in the Netherlands, where he accepts pets and scratches from engineers taking a paws from their busy day 🐾🐈…
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Published: July 28, 2025 13:10
🚀 Europe’s new CO2 monitoring mission, MicroCarb, launched on Vega-C last weekend, ready to map the world’s main sources and sinks of this greenhouse gas 🌏👉…
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Published: July 17, 2025 12:47
🤖 Meet Olympus – a four-legged robot that recently jumped from wall to wall at @esa.int’s robotics laboratory in conditions simulating the low gravity of Mars 🔴 👉…