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Elevating the future of Europe 🌎🪐

Space is our middle name . Please see our Privacy Notice: https://esa.int/connectwithus ESA is Europe’s gateway to space.

Our mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.

14/10/2026

This is Namibia’s Etosha Pan, the country’s largest salt pan, captured by Copernicus EU Sentinel-2. 🌍

Vegetation appears in striking red in this false-colour view, while water across the salt pans appears in shades of green and deep blue.

Learn more: esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/10/Earth_from_Space_Namibia_s_biggest_salt_pan

14/10/2026

A look back at Sophie Adenot's historic mission. 👀

14/10/2026

This view from our Mars Express mission shows Amazonis Mensa, a flat-topped mountain shaped over billions of years by lava flows, wind and impacts on the Red Planet.

🔗esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/10/Where_winds_blow_and_lava_flows

German Aerospace Center, DLR | Freie Universität Berlin

13/10/2026

ESA Open Days 2026 is a wrap! 🚀

A huge thank you to everyone who visited us, met our teams, explored our missions, and shared in the excitement of space exploration. Your curiosity, enthusiasm, and support are what make moments like these possible.

Until next time 💙

13/10/2026

Launching on 19 October, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)'s Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will attempt a world-first sample return from Mars’s moon Phobos. We're contributing deep-space communication technology and ground station support to help make the mission possible.

Read more: esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_moon_lander_set_to_launch_on_19_October

(Credits: JAXA)

13/10/2026

🔴 LIVE at 11:00 CEST.

After 237 days in space, ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot will hold her first news conference since returning from the ISS.

Join Sophie and our Director of Human and Robotic Exploration Daniel Neuenschwander as they reflect on the mission and answer media questions.

▶️ Watch live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSOwEyynJ0I

12/10/2026

Before Rosalind Franklin can explore Mars, it first has to get off its lander. 🚙 🔴

Its twin rover, Amalia, has been rehearsing that critical first drive, tackling slopes, obstacles and Mars-like gravity to help prepare for the real mission.

Learn more: esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/ExoMars_rover_twin_rehearses_first_drive

Airbus Space | Thales Alenia Space

11/10/2026

📸 This was our 05 - 09 October 2026.

🔗 https://www.esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images_05-09_October_2026

11/10/2026

There’s more than meets the eye 👀

With , astronomers found that the Milky Way swallowed a dwarf galaxy 11.8 billion years ago, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. Its stars still live among ours, hidden in some of our galaxy’s oldest star clusters.

It’s the earliest big merger we’ve found so far, and it pushes our galaxy’s known history 1.8 billion years further back.

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🎞️ ; Martin Kornmesser & Patrik Jonsson, Greg Novak & Joel Primack, ; Koppelman, Villalobos & Helmi, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, , The Netherlands; Halo stars: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, T Donlon et al. 2024; Background Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds: Stefan Payne-Wardenaar; Vintergatan – Renaud, Agertz et al. (2021); NASA, ESA, L. Calçada, F. Ferraro (), BY 4.0; M. Kornmesser(ESA/Hubble); NASA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada, WordlWideTelescope, G. Bacon (); Theofanis N. Matsopoulos/ESA; NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI), CC BY 4.0

11/10/2026

You probably used Galileo today without realising it. 👀

Every time you check your location, you are relying on . Billions use it every day. Few know the story behind it.

Our new documentary “Finding Our Way: Inside the Galileo project” takes you behind the scenes of Europe's satellite navigation system. From its origins to today, follow Galileo's journey from an ambitious idea to a technology we rely on every day.

Join us for the online premiere next Wednesday and chat live with the film's director and the experts who built Galileo.

📅 When? Next Wednesday 15 October, at 18:30 CEST
🔗 Where? Tune in here https://youtu.be/G0aJU3BLbWw

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