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Europe's first deep-space optical communication link
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Europe_s_first_deep-space_optical_communication_link
Published: July 10, 2025 09:02
The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away, using two optical grounds…
Safeguarding Europe’s role in Solar System Internet: First Stop, the Moon
Published: June 16, 2025 09:04
ESA is taking a significant step towards realising the Solar System Internet (SSI) - an ambitious vision made possible through global collaboration. Earlier this year, ESA launched a concurrent design activity for the SSI Node-1 mission, the world’s first…
ESA transmits the Blue Danube Waltz into deep space
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/ESA_transmits_the_Blue_Danube_Waltz_into_deep_space
Published: June 4, 2025 11:59
On 31 May 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) made history by transmitting a live performance of The Blue Danube Waltz into space from its Cebreros deep space antenna in Spain. This symbolic gesture elevated Johann Strauss II’s famous waltz, often…
ESA supports Moon mission carrying first European rover
Published: June 3, 2025 09:00
Japanese lunar exploration company ispace will attempt to land its RESILIENCE spacecraft on the Moon no earlier than 5 June (CEST) 2025.The European Space Agency’s (ESA) global network of ground stations is facilitating communication between the spacecraft…
Estrack - Half a century of European satellite tracking
Published: May 28, 2025 14:30
Video: 00:02:27 2025 marks a landmark year for Europe’s ‘bridge between Earth and space’. The European Space Agency’s Estrack satellite tracking network turns 50.Since its inception in 1975, Estrack – ESA’s global network of ground stations – has…
Waltzing celebration for half a century of European satellite tracking
Published: May 26, 2025 08:00
2025 marks a landmark year for Europe’s ‘bridge between Earth and space’. The European Space Agency’s Estrack satellite tracking network turns 50 – and with it, its deep space antenna in Cebreros, Spain, celebrates 20 years of connecting Earth to the…
Mars Express updates software, extends lifetime until 2034
Published: May 16, 2025 11:19
Mars Express mission operators at ESOC successfully sent a new software patch that would allow the spacecraft to operate in its third decade.
Biomass, an oversized football and the Australian outback
Published: May 15, 2025 07:00
ESA’s forest mission Biomass will be supported by a custom-built transponder antenna installed in New Norcia, Australia.The satellite will fly over the transponder to calibrate its instrument during its six-month commissioning period, and then regularly up…
Plato’s dialogue
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/05/Plato_s_dialogue
Published: May 13, 2025 08:00
Image: Plato’s dialogue
Biomass completes a relay race of a LEOP
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Biomass_completes_a_relay_race_of_a_LEOP
Published: May 9, 2025 09:00
Mission control at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre has completed the critical Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) for ESA’s Biomass, after nine days of intense work.