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Earth from Space: Vienna’s Danube divide

Fri, 06/20/2025 - 4:00am
Image: A close-up view of Vienna, Austria’s capital city, is featured in this image from April 2025.
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ESA Delivers: 50 years booklet

Fri, 06/20/2025 - 3:45am

ESA Delivers: 50 years booklet

50 hallmark achievements across 50 years

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ESA at Le Bourget 2025 - Day Four Highlights

Thu, 06/19/2025 - 8:42am

The European Space Agency looked back on its heritage and looked forward to a sustainable future on the fourth day of the International Paris Air Show. 

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“The models were right”: astronomers find ‘missing’ matter

Thu, 06/19/2025 - 3:00am

Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, the thread could contain some of the Universe’s ‘missing’ matter, addressing a decades-long mystery.

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ESA at Le Bourget 2025 – Day Three Highlights

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 9:46am

The European Commissioner for Defence and Space Andrius Kubilius attended the third day of the International Paris Air Show.  

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ESA - European Commission Press Conference at Paris Air Show 2025

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 7:01am
Video: 00:17:03

Watch the replay of the ESA-European Commission press conference with Josef Aschbacher, Director General of ESA, and Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, held at the Paris Air Show 2025 (Le Bourget) on 18 June 2025.

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Call with Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski at Paris Air Show 2025

Wed, 06/18/2025 - 7:00am
Video: 00:12:58

Watch the replay of the call between Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General, Andrius Kubilius, EU Commissioner for Defence and Space, and Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, ESA project astronaut. This call took place at the Paris Air Show 2025 (Le Bourget) on 18 June. Project astronaut Uznański-Wiśniewski joined from quarantine ahead of the upcoming Ignis mission mission.

Sponsored by the Polish government and supported by ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MRiT), and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the Ignis mission features an ambitious technological and scientific programme. It includes several experiments proposed by the Polish space industry and developed in cooperation with ESA, along with additional ESA-led experiments.

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ESA at Le Bourget 2025 - Day Two Highlights

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 12:26pm

The beginning of the industrial development of LISA was among the highlights for the European Space Agency on the second day of the International Paris Air Show. 

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