🛰📡 The European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, in Darmstadt, Germany, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Take a look back on five decades of mission control, encompassing 77 spacecraft, ranging from telecom, weather, Earth observation and climate monitoring satellites to spacecraft studying the Sun and peering deep into our Universe. Exploring our Solar System, teams at ESOC have flown missions to the Moon, Mars and Venus, as well as three epoch-making triumphs: Giotto’s flyby of Halley’s Co
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🛰📡 The European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, in Darmstadt, Germany, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Take a look back on five decades of mission control, encompassing 77 spacecraft, ranging from telecom, weather, Earth observation and climate monitoring satellites to spacecraft studying the Sun and peering deep into our Universe. Exploring our Solar System, teams at ESOC have flown missions to the Moon, Mars and Venus, as well as three epoch-making triumphs: Giotto’s flyby of Halley’s Co
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#HowWeMakeASpaceMission: At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, teams operate complex, first-of-a-kind missions, developing and testing the systems needed to command them and managing the ground stations that communicate with them. Take a peek behind the scenes and discover where the operations happen. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6_MIJnbCfc&feature=youtu.be | ESA - European Space Agency
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#HowWeMakeASpaceMission: At ESA's mission control in Darmstadt, Germany, teams operate complex, first-of-a-kind missions, developing and testing the systems needed to command them and managing the ground stations that communicate with them. Take a peek behind the scenes and discover where the operations happen. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6_MIJnbCfc&feature=youtu.be | ESA - European Space Agency
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And there it goes! After separating from its Falcon 9 rocket, Copernicus EU Sentinel-6B is now flying solo under the care of ESA Mission Control at ESA ESOC in Darmstadt. We’re waiting to receive its first signal📡 EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme EUMETSAT CNES European Commission National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) NASA Earth NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | ESA - European Space Agency
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And there it goes! After separating from its Falcon 9 rocket, Copernicus EU Sentinel-6B is now flying solo under the care of ESA Mission Control at ESA ESOC in Darmstadt. We’re waiting to receive its first signal📡 EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme EUMETSAT CNES European Commission National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) NASA Earth NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | ESA - European Space Agency
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Ciao Darmstadt, Ciao ESOC!
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Sound on to hear the call that sets a mission in motion 🎧 On launch day, every second counts. Listen in as teams across our European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany - Flight Control, Flight Dynamics, Ground Operations and Software - report in over the voice loop. One by one, they confirm their systems are ready. Led by Flight Operations Director Isabel Rojo, this roll-call is the moment we know we’re set to take charge of the spacecraft. On 17 November 2025, @copernicus_eu Sentine
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Sound on to hear the call that sets a mission in motion 🎧 On launch day, every second counts. Listen in as teams across our European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany - Flight Control, Flight Dynamics, Ground Operations and Software - report in over the voice loop. One by one, they confirm their systems are ready. Led by Flight Operations Director Isabel Rojo, this roll-call is the moment we know we’re set to take charge of the spacecraft. On 17 November 2025, @copernicus_eu Sentine
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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, now preparing for his #Huginn mission in 2023, stopped by ESA ESOC Mission Control in Darmstadt, Germany, to meet some of the experts who keep our satellites flying 👉 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2022/12/Flight_control_space_weather_and_debris_What_an_astronaut_needs_to_know | ESA - European Space Agency
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ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, now preparing for his #Huginn mission in 2023, stopped by ESA ESOC Mission Control in Darmstadt, Germany, to meet some of the experts who keep our satellites flying 👉 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2022/12/Flight_control_space_weather_and_debris_What_an_astronaut_needs_to_know | ESA - European Space Agency
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Twitter Periscope live from ESA's mission control centre
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Space debris is a big problem, but ESA - European Space Agency plans to do something about it. Experts from around the world are meeting in Darmstadt, Germany for the 7th European Conference on Space Debris April 18-21. This new video from the space agency explains why orbiting space junk is such a dangerous mess and what can be done to clean it up. | Space.com
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🛰️ Die European Space Agency - kurz ESA - hat erfolgreich einen Satelliten ins All geschickt. „Biomass“ soll Bilder von Wäldern aufnehmen, um damit wichtige Erkenntisse zum Klimaschutz zu sammeln. Gesteuert wird die Sonde aus Darmstadt. #satellite #weltall #space #esa #darmstadt #1730sat1live | 17:30 SAT.1 LIVE
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Evren Gezer hat aus der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation, der ESA in Darmstadt, gesendet. Der ehemalige hessische Astronaut Thomas Reiter hat uns verraten, was für ihn die Faszination am Weltraum ist. #FFH #LäuftBeiDir #ESA #EuropäischeWeltraumorganisation #Darmstadt #ThomasReiter ESA - European Space Agency | HIT RADIO FFH
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What’s it like to work as an Engineer for the European Space Agency? 🚀 Meet Esther, our System Engineer, currently working on the Proba-3 mission. Proba-3 is scheduled to liftoff on Wednesday, 4 December, at 11:38 CET from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in India, Proba-3 will use two satellites to create the perfect conditions for observing the Sun’s corona. One satellite features a telescope, kept in the centre of the shadow cast by the other satellite around 150 m away, thanks to an occulter
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Space touches your life more than you think. From protecting our planet to exploring the unknown to driving innovation and growth to strengthening Europe’s autonomy to inspiring the next generation 📹 @europeanspaceagency 🎞️ ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi;@germanaerospacecenter/@fu_berlin/G. Michael, @creativecommons by SA 3.0 IGO; Juice/JMC @nasa /Solar Orbiter/EUI Team; CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL; D. Jewitt (U
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We are on our way to uncover the dark Universe!!🚀 ESA’s Euclid spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, at 16:12 BST/17:12 CEST on 1 July. The successful launch marks the beginning of an ambitious mission to uncover the nature of two mysterious components of our Universe: dark matter and dark energy, and to help us answer the fundamental question: what is the Universe made of? Following launch and separation from the rocket, ESA’
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