Euclids first images: the dazzling edge of darkness European Space Agency, ESA 2026-09-22 | Euclids first images: the dazzling edge of darkness
Lucky alignment of two spacecraft reveals how solar wind gets a magnetic push! ☀️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-17 | Fast’ solar wind moves with speeds above 500 km/s. Curiously, this wind exits the Sun’s corona with lower speeds, so something speeds it up as it moves farther away. The million-degree wind naturally cools down as it expands into a larger volume and becomes less dense, much like the air on Earth as you climb a mountain. And yet, it cools more slowly than expected from this effect alone.So, what provides the necessary energy to accelerate and heat the fastest parts of the solar wind?Data from our Solar Orbiter and NASA’s Parker Solar Probe have provided conclusive evidence that the answer is large-scale oscillations in the Sun’s magnetic field, known as Alfvén waves.📹 ESA - European Space Agency📸 ESA/NASA#ESA #Sun #SolarWinds
Euclid’s 208-Gigapixel glimpse into the Universe European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-15 | Discover the first page of ESA Euclid’s great cosmic atlas and marvel at millions of stars and galaxies captured in pristine detail, in a huge 208-gigapixel mosaic. The mosaic covers an area of the Southern Sky more than 500 times the area of the full Moon as seen from Earth.This video takes you through a rare sky dive. Starting from a vast cosmic panorama bedazzled by some 14 million galaxies, a series of ever-deeper zooms brings you to a crisp view of a swirling spiral galaxy, in a final image enlarged 600 times compared to the full mosaic. Although the scenes are enticing, they are not taken for their beauty, but to help us advance our understanding of the cosmos. Many of the 14 million galaxies in the initial vista will be used to study the hidden influence of dark matter and dark energy on the Universe.Unveiled as a teaser of the wide survey, the mosaic accounts for 1% of the area that Euclid will cover over six years, and was obtained by combining 260 observations collected in just two weeks.This first chunk of Euclid’s survey was revealed on 15 October 2024 at the International Astronautical Congress in Milan, Italy, by ESA’s Director General Josef Aschbacher and Director of Science Carole Mundell.Read more: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Zoom_into_the_first_page_of_ESA_Euclid_s_great_cosmic_atlas—————————————————Copyright: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, CEA Paris-Saclay, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, E. Bertin, G. Anselmi; ESA/Gaia/DPAC; ESA/Planck Collaboration—————————————————★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Euclid #Darkmatter
Webb cracks case of inflated exoplanet 🕵️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-14 | Data collected using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, combined with earlier observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, show surprisingly little methane (CH4) in the atmosphere of WASP-107 b, indicating that the interior of the planet must be significantly hotter and the core much more massive than previously estimated.📹 ESA - European Space Agency📸 NASA, ESA, CSA, R. Crawford#ESA #Webb #SpaceMysteries
We have detected water on Jupiter! 💦 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-10 | We have detected water on Jupiter! 💦But this is not new news...In 2013, our Herschel telescope solved the mystery of water in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, tracing it back to the impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in July 1994.This finding paved the way for our Juice mission, set to reach Jupiter in 2031. Juice’s observations will give us a better chance of understanding how Jupiter’s atmosphere responds to such events.📸 ESA - European Space Agency📹 ESA/NASA#ESA #Jupiter #HerschelTelescope
Liftoff! Europes first planetary defence mission 🚀 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-08 | ESA’s Hera mission lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, on 7 October at 10:52 local time (16:52 CEST, 14:52 UTC).Hera is ESA’s first planetary defence mission. It will fly to a unique target among the 1.3 million asteroids in our Solar System – the only body to have had its orbit shifted by human action – to solve lingering unknowns associated with its deflection.Hera will carry out the first detailed survey of a ‘binary’ – or double-body – asteroid, 65803 Didymos, which is orbited by a smaller body, Dimorphos. Hera’s main focus will be Dimorphos, whose orbit around the main body was previously altered by NASA’s kinetic-impacting DART spacecraft.By sharpening scientific understanding of this ‘kinetic impact’ technique of asteroid deflection, Hera should turn the experiment into a well-understood and repeatable technique for protecting Earth from an asteroid on a collision course.—————————————————Copyright: SpaceX—————————————————★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #HeraMission #Launch
ESAs Hera mission launch highlight European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-08 | ESA’s Hera mission lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, on 7 October at 10:52 local time (16:52 CEST, 14:52 UTC).Hera is ESA’s first planetary defence mission. It will fly to a unique target among the 1.3 million asteroids in our Solar System – the only body to have had its orbit shifted by human action – to solve lingering unknowns associated with its deflection.Hera will carry out the first detailed survey of a ‘binary’ – or double-body – asteroid, 65803 Didymos, which is orbited by a smaller body, Dimorphos. Hera’s main focus will be Dimorphos, whose orbit around the main body was previously altered by NASA’s kinetic-impacting DART spacecraft.By sharpening scientific understanding of this ‘kinetic impact’ technique of asteroid deflection, Hera should turn the experiment into a well-understood and repeatable technique for protecting Earth from an asteroid on a collision course.—————————————————📸 ESA - S. CorvajaCopyright: ESA/SpaceX—————————————————★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #HeraMission #Launch
ESAs Hera mission launch (Official broadcast) European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-07 | Hera, ESA’s first planetary defence mission, is headed to space. Hera will fly to a unique target among the 1.3 million known asteroids of our Solar System – the first body to have had its orbit shifted by human action – to probe lingering unknowns related to its deflection.—————————————————Credits: ESA/SpaceX—————————————————Chapters:00:00 Start of ESA WebTV programme – live from ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany18:30 SpaceX live broadcast begins36:15 Hera lift-off1:53:00 - Hera separates from Falcon 9 launcher: End of SpaceX live broadcast, ESA WebTV programme continues1:57:20 Acquisition of the first signals from the Hera spacecraft2:13:26 End of ESA WebTV programme★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #HeraMission #Asteroid
Why are we going back to this asteroid? European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-07 | Hera, ESA’s first planetary defence mission, is headed to space. Hera will fly to a unique target among the 1.3 million known asteroids of our Solar System – the first body to have had its orbit shifted by human action – to probe lingering unknowns related to its deflection.Hera is scheduled for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, USA, today, Monday 7 October, at 16:52 CEST / 15:52 BST.————————————————— Credits: ESA - European Space Agency—————————————————Chapters:00:00 What is Hera?01:07 Why do we need to protect our planet?02:22 How did we pick this asteroid to explore? 03:36 What are we expecting to see on Dimorphos?05:56 How do we get there?07:48 What type of technology do we need to inspect an asteroid?10:49 Conclusion★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #HeraMission #Asteroid
SPACE ROCKS: Live from ESA Open Day 2024 at ESTEC European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-07 | Live interviews and highlights from the ESA Open Day at ESTEC, featuring ESA astronauts Andreas Mogensen and André Kuipers, NASA astronaut Anna Fisher, The Expanse actor Steven Strait and more.The ESA Open Day is an annual event where ESA opens the doors of the European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands to the public.For more information on the ESA Open Day at ESTEC head to https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC/ESA_Open_Days_2024 For more information on Space Rocks, head to www.spacerocksofficial.com —————————————————★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #SpaceRocks #OpenDay
Meet Milani, the shoebox-sized CubeSat that’s joining our Hera mission! 🛰️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-06 | This tiny satellite will study the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos up close, helping us learn more about asteroid deflection and space safety. With groundbreaking sensors and instruments, Milani is ready to explore this binary asteroid system alongside Hera and JuventasStay tuned for more on Hera’s thrilling mission!📹 ESA - European Space Agency📸 ESA/Science Office#ESA #HeraMission #Asteroid
Whats it like to work as a mission manager at the European Space Agency? 🛰️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-04 | Meet Ian Carnelli, project manager for Hera, our planetary defense mission that will very soon be launched into space. Hera will be, along with NASA's DART spacecraft, humankind’s first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system, a little understood class making up around 15% of all known asteroids.📹 ESA - European Space Agency📸 NASA/ESA#ESA #HeraMission #ProjectManager
This tiny spacecraft is about to change our understanding of asteroids! 🛰️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-10-01 | Introducing Juventas... 🛰️A shoebox-sized spacecraft from our Hera mission that’s about to explore the binary asteroid system of Didymos and its moon, Dimorphos – a space rock the size of the Great Pyramid!Using its cutting-edge radar system, Juventas will reveal whether Dimorphos is a solid monolith or simply a loose pile of rubble. Plus, it’s going to gently land and measure the asteroid’s gravity—something never done before!This tiny spacecraft is set to rewrite what we know about asteroids and could one day help protect our planet.Stay tuned for more on Hera’s thrilling mission!📸 ESA - European Space Agency📹 ESA/Science Office#ESA #HeraMission #Asteroid
From launch to lunar-Earth flyby | The journey of Juice (episode 1) European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-30 | ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice), is on an epic eight-year journey to Jupiter. This first episode of ‘The journey of Juice’ tells the story of Juice’s first months in space, from its launch on 14 April 2023 to its lunar-Earth gravity assist (LEGA for short) in August 2024. This flyby was not only the first double gravity assist manoeuvre of its kind, it was also a perfect opportunity to test out the spacecraft’s cameras and science instruments. In this episode, Juice’s Mission Manager Nicolas Altobelli explains how the spacecraft will become the first ever human-made machine to orbit a moon of another planet, in this case Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede. You’ll also hear from Claire Vallat and Marc Costa at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) near Madrid, Spain. Juice will perform incredibly complex measurements once it reaches Jupiter, and the Science Operations team at ESAC is making sure we get the most out of every instrument. Meanwhile, the Flight Control team at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, makes sure Juice is and stays on the right path. This episode shows what happened ‘behind the scenes’ before and during the lunar-Earth flyby, and stars Ignacio Tanco, Angela Dietz and members of the Juice Flight Control team as they do what they do best. Finally, we highlight the ESA tracking station network (Estrack), another crucial component for Juice. Maintenance and Operations Engineer Belén Goméz gives a tour of the facility at Cebreros. Following the very successful lunar-Earth flyby, Juice is now on its way to planet Venus for its next flyby. On 31 August 2025, this flyby will give Juice its second gravity boost. Tune back in next year for episode two of this series! This series follows on from ‘The making of Juice’ series, which covered the planning, testing and launch of this once-in-a-generation mission. Credit: ESA/Lightcurve Films, original music by William ZeitlerAcknowledgments: Direction, main camera, sound, editing, post-production: Maarten Roos. Camera at Cebreros during LEGA: Mikel Larequi. LEGA timelapse: Mark McCaughrean and Simeon Schmauß. Special thanks to Marc Costa (ESA – ESAC) and Jorge Fauste (ESA – Estrack)★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Juice #Jupiter
Studying the first crater ever made by humans ☄️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-24 | Our Hera spacecraft will soon start its journey to the distant asteroid moon Dimorphos orbiting around its parent body Didymos.One of the first features Hera will look for is the crater left on Dimorphos by its predecessor mission DART, which impacted the asteroid to deflect its orbit.Yet, more recent impact simulations suggest no crater will be found. The DART impact is likely to have remodelled the entire body instead – a significant finding for both asteroid science and planetary defence.📸 ESA - European Space Agency📹 ESA/NASA#ESA #HeraMission #Asteroid
Solving asteroid mysteries | Hera planetary defence mission European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-24 | There’s a mystery out there in deep space – and solving it will make Earth safer. That’s why the European Space Agency’s Hera mission is taking shape – to go where one particular spacecraft has gone before.On 26 September 2022, moving at 6.1 km/s, NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid. Part of our Solar System changed. The impact shrunk the orbit of the Great Pyramid-sized Dimorphos around its parent asteroid, the mountain-sized Didymos.This grand experiment was performed to prove we could defend Earth against an incoming asteroid, by striking it with a spacecraft to deflect it. DART succeeded. But that still leaves many things scientists don’t know: What is the precise mass and makeup of Dimorphos? What did the impact do to the asteroid? How big is the crater left by DART’s collision? Or has Dimorphos completely cracked apart, to be held together only by its own weak gravity?That’s why we’re going back – with ESA’s Hera mission. The spacecraft will revisit Dimorphos to gather vital close-up data about the deflected body, to turn DART’s grand-scale experiment into a well-understood and potentially repeatable planetary defence technique.The mission will also perform the most detailed exploration yet of a binary asteroid system – although binaries make up 15% of all known asteroids, one has never been surveyed in detail.Hera will also perform technology demonstration experiments, including the deployment ESA’s first deep space ‘CubeSats’ – shoebox-sized spacecraft to venture closer than the main mission then eventually land – and an ambitious test of 'self-driving' for the main spacecraft, based on vision-based navigation.By the end of Hera’s observations, Dimorphos will become the best studied asteroid in history – which is vital, because if a body of this size ever struck Earth it could destroy a whole city. The dinosaurs had no defence against asteroids, because they never had a space agency. But – through Hera – we are teaching ourselves what we can do to reduce this hazard and make space safer.German: youtu.be/4d-H9JwwzrU————————————————— Credits: ESA-Science Office————————————————— ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications. Check out the YPSat LinkedIn page: linkedin.com/company/ypsat/posts/?feedView=allFor more information about YPSat: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/ESA_Young_Professionals_Satellites Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickr We are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Te... #ESA #Hera #Asteroid
What do a rover, lightsabres, and a piglet have in common at a quarry? 🐷 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-20 | Meet Codi, the cutting-edge rover being tested in the UK as it gears up for future Mars missions! This high-tech explorer navigates challenging landscapes and collects “lightsabre” samples with precision. And did you know? There’s a bit of fun on the side—Kevin the piglet, the team’s adorable mascot, is named after actor Kevin Bacon!📸 ESA - European Space Agency📹 Airbus
The Young Professional Satellite - From Earth to Orbit (episode 3) European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-19 | In this last episode of the Young Professional Satellite docu series, we follow the team’s last steps to make their dream come true: sending their satellite to space. After securing the crucial final assembly and battery connection, we take you inside the thermal vacuum tests (TVAC) to see how YPSat is tested under the extreme temperatures of space; through vibration tests to ensure its structural integrity during launch; and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) tests to prevent interference with the launcher’s systems. As we approach the European Space Agency’s traditional Flight Acceptance Review, the satellite is officially certified for flight. With the integration complete and final battery charge applied, control is handed over to the rocket. The only task left for the teams on the ground is to analyse one last time the rocket’s trajectory and await the critical first signal. As tension builds up on launch day, watch as the team retrieves YPSat’s data and decodes breathtaking images and videos from its mission. ————————————————— Credits:Directed and produced by Chilled Winston: chilledwinston.com and Emma de CockerPowered by ESA - European Space AgencySoundtracks from Epidemic Sound—————————————————Chapters:00:00 - Introduction01:30 - Final Assembly02:49 - The Test Campaign06:42 - Final Launch Preparations10:01 - Ariane 6 Launch11:38 - Gathering & Decoding the Footage15:15 - Unveiling the Footage17:08 - Watch at the End ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications. Check out the YPSat LinkedIn page: linkedin.com/company/ypsat/posts/?feedView=allFor more information about YPSat: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/ESA_Young_Professionals_Satellites Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickr We are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Te... #ESA #YPSat #Ariane6
Why have we chosen this random asteroid to explore? ☄️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-17 | The Hera mission is following up on NASA’s DART mission, which altered the orbit of Dimorphos, after a successful impact in 2022.Hera will soon study the aftermath of the impact.Launching this October, Hera will turn this grand-scale experiment into a well-understood and hopefully repeatable planetary defence technique.📸 ESA - European Space Agency📹 ESA/NASA#ESA #HeraMission #Asteroid
Liftoff of Sentinel-2C on the last Vega rocket 🚀 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-14 | The third Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, Sentinel-2C, has launched aboard the last Vega rocket, flight VV24, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 5 September at 03:50 CEST (4 September 22:50 local time).Sentinel-2C was the last liftoff for the Vega rocket – after 12 years of service this was the final flight, the original Vega is being retired to make way for an upgraded Vega-C.🎥 ESA - European Space AgencyCredits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace#ESA #Sentinel-2C #Vega
Timelapse of BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-13 | Watch the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September 2024.This flyby marked BepiColombo’s closest approach to Mercury yet, and for the first time, the spacecraft had a clear view of Mercury’s south pole.This timelapse is made up of 128 different images captured by all three of BepiColombo’s monitoring cameras, M-CAM 1, 2 and 3. We see the planet move in and out of the fields of view of M-CAM 2 and 3, before M-CAM 1 sees the planet receding into the distance at the end of the video.The first few images are taken in the days and weeks before the flyby. Mercury first appears in an image taken at 23:50 CEST (21:50 UTC) on 4 September, at a distance of 191 km. Closest approach was at 23:48 CEST at a distance of 165 km.The sequence ends around 24 hours later, on 5 September 2024, when BepiColombo was about 243 000 km from Mercury.During the flyby it was possible to identify various geological features that BepiColombo will study in more detail once in orbit around the planet. Four minutes after closest approach, a large ‘peak ring basin’ called Vivaldi came into view.This crater was named after the famous Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). The flyover of Vivaldi crater was the inspiration for using Antonio Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ as the soundtrack for this timelapse.Peak ring basins are mysterious craters created by powerful asteroid or comet impacts, so-called because of the inner ring of peaks on an otherwise flattish floor.A couple of minutes later, another peak ring basin came into view: newly named Stoddart. The name was recently assigned following a request from the M-CAM team, who realised that this crater would be visible in these images and decided it would be worth naming considering its potential interest for scientists in the future.BepiColombo’s three monitoring cameras provided 1024 x 1024 pixel snapshots. Their main purpose is to monitor the spacecraft’s various booms and antennas, hence why we see parts of the spacecraft in the foreground. The photos that they capture of Mercury during the flybys are a bonus.The 4 September gravity assist flyby was the fourth at Mercury and the seventh of nine planetary flybys overall. During its eight-year cruise to the smallest and innermost planet of the Solar System, BepiColombo makes one flyby at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury, to help steer itself on course for entering orbit around Mercury in 2026.BepiColombo is an international collaboration between ESA and JAXA. BepiColombo’s best images yet highlight fourth Mercury flyby: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/BepiColombo_s_best_images_yet_highlight_fourth_Mercury_flybyBepiColombo images in ESA’s Planetary Science: https://psa.esa.int/psa/#/pages/home Processing notes: The BepiColombo monitoring cameras provide 1024 x 1024 pixel images. These raw images have been lightly processed. The M-CAM 1 images have been cropped to 995 x 995 pixels.Credits: ESA/BepiColombo/MTMAcknowledgements: Image processing and video production by Mark McCaughrean★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #BepiColombo #Mercury
Below the surface | ExoMars Rosalind Franklin mission European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-12 | Watch the second episode of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission – Europe’s ambitious exploration journey to search for past and present signs of life on Mars.This episode starts with Rosalind searching for traces of life below the martian surface using a ground penetrating radar and a set of cameras.The rover will dig, collect, and investigate the chemical composition of material collected by a drill. Rosalind Franklin will be the first rover to reach a depth of up to two metres deep below the surface, acquiring samples that have been protected from surface radiation and extreme temperatures.Rosalind Franklin uses the WISDOM radar to help scientists on Earth decide where to drill. Besides identifying the most promising targets for sampling, WISDOM will help the rover avoid potential hazards, such as the presence of buried rocks that could damage the drill.The scientific eyes of the rover are set on the Panoramic Camera suite known as PanCam. The Close-UP Imager (CLUPI) sits on the side of the drill box, a camera designed to acquire high-resolution, colour, close-up images of outcrops, rocks and soils. PanCam and CLUPI will help scientists find the most promising spots to drill. These instruments can also investigate very fine outcrop details and image drill samples before they are sent into the rover’s laboratory.After the rover retracts its drill, the sample is in a special chamber at the tip. Under the reduced martian gravity (38% of Earth’s), the material drops onto a special “hand” that the rover can extend to the front to collect drill samples.The mission will serve to demonstrate key technologies that Europe needs to master for future planetary exploration missions.The ExoMars rover series show the rover and martian landscapes as true to reality as possible for a simulation.Check ESA’s ExoMars website and our frequently asked questions for the latest updates.Credits: ESA - European SpaceProduction: Mlabspace for ESA3D animation: ESA/MlabspaceVideo footage: ESA/NASA, ShutterstockMusic composed by Valentin Joudrier★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #ExoMars #Mars
Why we are sending a spacecraft to Dimorphos? ☄️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-11 | On 26 September 2022, NASA’s approximately half-tonne Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) spacecraft impacted the Dimorphos asteroid at an approximate speed of 6.1 km/s, shortening its orbit around Didymos by more than half an hour.Our Hera spacecraft will be launched this October to reach Dimorphos and perform a close-up ‘crash scene investigation’, gathering data on the asteroid’s mass, structure and make-up to turn this kinetic impact method of planetary defence into a well understood and repeatable technique.📸 ESA - European Space Agency📹 ESA/NASA#ESA #NASA #Hera
This is how ESA stores Earth observation data European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-10 | Join us as we enter ESA's Heritage Missions data archive, which stores Earth observation data dating back to the 1970s.ESA preserves this historical record from past satellite missions, which provides valuable information for long-term studies. The datasets from these missions are not only preserved, but continuously improved over time with reprocessing activities that make them compatible with products acquired by more recent missions and apply new processing algorithms that can improve the accuracy and quality of the products.The presenter, Malì, is wearing an ESA t-shirt in the video, which is available for sale on the ESA online shop: esaspaceshop.com/earth-outline-in-rubber-relief-t-shirt-for-adults.htmlCredits: ESA - European Space Agency★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #EarthObservation #Archive
Its the beginning of the end for Cluster... 🛰️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-08 | Today, Salsa, the first of four satellites that make up our Cluster mission, will reenter Earth’s atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean Uninhabited Area.This marks the end of the historic mission, over 24 years after it was sent into space to measure Earth’s magnetic environment. Though the remaining three satellites will also stop making scientific observations, discoveries using existing mission data are expected for years to come.This ‘targeted reentry’ is the first of its kind. ESA’s efforts to ensure a clean end to the Cluster mission go beyond international standards, making the agency a world-leader in sustainable space exploration.📹 ESA - European Space Agency#ESA #Cluster #Satellite
Cluster reentry explained: worlds first targeted reentry European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-08 | The first of four satellites that make up ESA’s Cluster mission is coming safely back down to Earth, marking a brilliant end to this remarkable mission. The satellite’s orbit was tweaked back in January to target a region as far as possible from populated regions. This ensures that any spacecraft parts that survive the reentry will fall over open ocean. During 24 years in space, Cluster has sent back precious data on how the Sun interacts with Earth’s magnetic field, helping us better understand and forecast potentially dangerous space weather. With this first ever targeted reentry, Cluster goes down in history for a different reason, taking ESA well beyond international space safety standards and helping ensure the long-term sustainability of space activities.Credits: ESA - European Space AgencyChapters:00:00 Introduction to the Cluster Mission 02:17 How do we deorbit a satellite? 05:05 Why does Cluster’s reentry matter so much?06:15 Conclusion★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Satellite #Reentry
Liftoff of Sentinel-2C on the last Vega rocket European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-05 | The Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite lifted off on 5 September at 03:50 CEST (4 September 22:50 local time) aboard the last Vega rocket, flight VV24, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.Sentinel-2C will continue the legacy of delivering high-resolution data that are essential to Copernicus – the Earth observation component of the EU Space Programme. Developed, built and operated by ESA, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission provides high-resolution optical imagery for a wide range of applications including land, water and atmospheric monitoring.Sentinel-2C was the last liftoff for the Vega rocket – after 12 years of service this was the final flight, the original Vega is being retired to make way for an upgraded Vega-C.Credits: ESA/CNES/ArianespaceChapters:00:00 Waiting for liftoff01:10 Liftoff04:25 Second stage separation06:18 Sentinel-2C separation06:46 Acquisition of signal07:23 Statements★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Vega #Sentinel-2C
Vega for ESA: the story European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-03 | Vega joined the family of launch vehicles at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana in 2012. At 30-m tall the rocket weighs 137 tonnes on the launch pad and reaches orbit with three solid-propellant powered stages before the fourth liquid-propellant stage takes over. By rocket standards Vega is lightweight and powerful, the first three stages burn through their fuel and bringing Vega and its satellites to space in just six minutes.Specialising in launches of small satellites to orbits flying the Earth’s poles, Vega has an impressive roster of missions that it has sent to space. Flagship ESA missions that flew Vega include technology demonstrator and Earth vegetation watcher Proba-V and wind-monitoring satellite Aeolus. Vega’s heaviest payload launched was the 1906-kg LISA Pathfinder, a forerunner to LISA that will measure gravitational waves in space..In 2015 Vega launched three ESA missions in one year, including reentry demonstrator IXV that showed Europe has the technology to launch a vehicle to space and return it safely to Earth. In less than two hours Vega accelerated IXV to speeds of 27 000 km/h at a height of 412 km before the reentry vehicle splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. This demonstration mission was a precursor to the reuseable Space Rider spacecraft that will offer regular access to space for research and in orbit validation and demonstration missions and is paired with the Vega family of launchers.With its Vespa secondary payload adapter, first launched in 2013 on Vega’s second flight, Vega offered different options for payload ride-sharing where multiple satellites are launched on one rocket. In 2020 a variant of Vespa called the Small Spacecraft Mission Service transported over 50 satellites at once to orbit.Sentinel-2C is the last payload that the Vega rocket launches into space – after 12 years of service. Fittingly the Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B satellites were launched on Vega marking a logical conclusion to Vega’s stellar roster of satellites launched.Credits: ESA - European Space Agency★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Vega #Rocket
Final Vega rocket to carry Sentinel-2C into orbit 🚀 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-09-01 | It’s time to say goodbye to our rocket with its final liftoff.On this last flight, it will carry the Copernicus Sentinel-2C, into orbit. Vega already delivered Sentinel-2A and 2B to space in 2015 and 2017 ensuring constant monitoring of our planet for precision farming, water quality monitoring, natural disaster management and detecting methane emissions.Since its inaugural flight in 2012, Vega has launched over 20 times, serving Europe with precision and excellence. Now, Vega-C is ready to take the reins, bringing more power and capacity to future missions.📹 ESA - European Space Agency#ESA #Rocket #Satellite
Sentinel-2C: ready for liftoff European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-30 | Sentinel-2C is ready for launch! The new satellite will soon join its Copernicus Sentinel-2 family in orbit – where it will continue to provide detailed views of Earth’s land and coastal waters.The mission is based on a constellation of two identical satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B. The constellation was originally designed to monitor land surfaces – but its scope has since expanded.It now covers a wide range of applications including deforestation, water quality, monitoring natural disasters, methane emissions and much more.Sentinel-2C, once in orbit, will replace the Sentinel-2A unit – prolonging the life of the Sentinel-2 mission – ensuring a continuous supply of data for Copernicus, the Earth observation component of the EU Space Programme.Tune in to ESA WebTV on 4 September from 03:30 CEST to watch the satellite soar into space on the last Vega rocket to be launched from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Credits: ESA - European Space Agency★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Sentinel-2C #Satellite
Mars vast system of deep and steep valleys 🔴 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-29 | Noctis Labyrinthus is vast system of deep and steep valleys that stretches out for around 1190 km, roughly the length of Italy here on Earth.It is nestled between the colossal martian ‘Grand Canyon’ (Valles Marineris) and the tallest volcanoes in the Solar System (the Tharsis region).The intense volcanism in the nearby Tharsis region is to blame for the formation of these features; this volcanism caused large areas of martian crust to arch upwards and become stretched and tectonically stressed, leading to it thinning out, faulting and subsiding.📹 ESA - European Space Agency🖥️ ESA/DLR/FU Berlin#ESA #Mars #Space
Timelapse of Juice’s lunar-Earth flyby European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-27 | On 19–20 August 2024, Juice successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, with flight controllers guiding the spacecraft first past the Moon, then past Earth. The gravity of the two changed Juice’s speed and direction, sending it on a shortcut to Jupiter via Venus.The closest approach to the Moon was at 23:15 CEST on 19 August, deflecting Juice towards a closest approach to Earth just over 24 hours later at 23:56 CEST on 20 August. In the hours before and after both close approaches, Juice’s two monitoring cameras captured photos, giving us a unique ‘Juice eye view’ of our home planet.Juice’s two monitoring cameras provide 1024 x 1024 pixel snapshots that can be processed in colour. Their main purpose is to monitor the spacecraft’s various booms and antennas, especially during the challenging period after launch. The photos they captured of the Moon and Earth during the lunar-Earth flyby are a bonus.The piece of music that accompanies the images is called 11,2 km/s. It was composed by Gautier Acher back in 2015, and selected as the official theme music for ESA’s Estrack ground station network to mark its 40th anniversary (more information). The music is available under a CC BY-NC-SA licence. Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_rerouted_to_Venus_in_world_s_first_lunar-Earth_flybyJuice’s lunar-Earth flyby: all you need to know: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_s_lunar-Earth_flyby_all_you_need_to_know Processing notes: The Juice monitoring cameras provide 1024 x 1024 pixel images. Upscaling software was used to convert the images into 2160 x 2160 pixel images, which match the 3480 x2160 pixel resolution of the 4K movie format.Credits: ESA - European Space AgencyAcknowledgements: Simeon Schmauß & Mark McCaughrean★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Juice #Timelapse
How 6G centrifuges prepare astronauts for space travel 🧑🚀 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-25 | Human centrifuges simulate the gravitational forces, known as g-forces, experienced by astronauts during launch and return to Earth. The g-forces in this centrifuge were directed from the chest to the back, reaching acceleration levels up to 6G (equivalent to 4.5 times Earth's gravity). The astronaut candidates reclined on their backs, reflecting the position astronauts assume in their launch vehicles. Equipped with biomonitoring devices, they communicated with medical staff during the spin, describing the effects felt on their bodies.📹 ESA - European Space Agency🖥️ ESA#ESA #Astronauts #Centrifuge
Juice rerouted to Venus in world’s first lunar-Earth flyby 🧃 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-23 | Our Juice spacecraft returned to Earth to complete the world's first Lunar-Earth gravity assist. Flight controllers guided the spacecraft past the Moon and then the Earth, ‘braking’ the spacecraft. This manoeuvre may seem counterintuitive but will allow Juice to take a shortcut via Venus on its way to Jupiter.📹 ESA - European Space Agency🖥️ ESA
Juice: Live from the Moon + Q&A with the team European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-19 | Join us for Juice’s flyby of the Moon. We’ll be sharing images as soon as we can after Juice sends them down to Earth. Be among the first people in the world to see these images, and ask your questions about the mission and its lunar-Earth flyby to our panel of Juice team members. The images will be captured using Juice’s two ‘monitoring cameras’, designed to watch the unfolding of Juice’s solar panels, antennas and booms in space in the weeks after the spacecraft launched into space in April 2023. The cameras have successfully completed their task. But we thought… what will we see if we point them at the Moon? We don’t know how the images will look. It’s the first time the cameras will point at a big bright object in space. And we’re sharing them publicly before we’ve had a chance to process them at all. Let’s see what happens! Read more: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_s_lunar-Earth_flyby_all_you_need_to_know★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Juice #Moon
Why Juice is coming back to Earth European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-19 | ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) returns to Earth on 19–20 August 2024, to complete the world's first Lunar-Earth gravity assist. Flight controllers will guide the spacecraft past the Moon and then Earth itself, ‘braking’ the spacecraft. This manoeuvre may seem counterintuitive but will allow Juice to take a shortcut via Venus on it's way to Jupiter. Juice has already travelled more than 1000 million km to the giant planet but it still has a long way to go even though Jupiter is on average ‘just’ 800 million km away from Earth. Join us as we explain why Juice's journey to Jupiter is taking sooo long.Read more: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_s_lunar-Earth_flyby_all_you_need_to_knowRead more: https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Juice_why_s_it_taking_sooo_longCredits: ESA - European Space Agency—————————————————Chapters:00:00 Introduction00:59 Why is the journey so long?05:15 What is a flyby?06:10 Lunar-Earth gravity assist08:05 Conclusion★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Juice #Jupiter
How do foams behave in space? ⛓️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-15 | On Earth, the mixture of gas and liquid that makes up a foam quickly starts to change. Gravity pulls the liquid between the bubbles downwards, and small bubbles shrink while the larger ones tend to grow at the expense of others. As the liquid is drawn downwards due to gravity the bubbles lose their strength and rupture, collapsing back to a liquid state.This is annoying for researchers as it limits the time they can study foams and interferes with their experiments. But in space foams are more stable as the liquid does not drain to the bottom in weightlessness.📹 @EuropeanSpaceAgency 📸 ESA - European Space Agency#ESA #Foam #Space
Advancing weather forecasting in a changing climate European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-13 | The effects of the climate crisis are felt more acutely in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet. The weather in the Arctic is not only severe, but it changes extremely quickly. More frequent data are urgently needed to improve weather forecasts for this susceptible polar region.Enter ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite: a brand new prototype mission to show exactly how this can be achieved. The satellite will provide precise, short-term weather forecasts for the Arctic region. It is equipped with a 19-channel cross-track scanning microwave radiometer which will provide high-resolution humidity and temperature soundings of the atmosphere in all weather conditions.The Arctic Weather Satellite is the forerunner of a potential constellation of satellites, called EPS-Sterna, that ESA would build for Eumetsat if this first prototype Arctic Weather Satellite performs well.Credits: ESA - European Space Agency★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Satellite #ArcticWeatherSatellite
Zoom into interacting galaxies Arp 142 🔎 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-11 | This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to the interacting galaxies known as Arp 142.The distorted spiral galaxy at the centre, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical galaxy at the left, the Egg, are locked in an active embrace. A new near- and mid-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope, taken to mark its second year of science, shows that their interaction is marked by a faint upside-down U-shaped blue glow.The pair, known jointly as Arp 142, made their first pass between 25 and 75 million years ago — causing ‘fireworks’, or new star formation, in the Penguin. In the most extreme cases, mergers can cause galaxies to form thousands of new stars per year for a few million years. For the Penguin, research has shown that about 100 to 200 stars have formed per year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy (which is not interacting with a galaxy of the same size) forms roughly six to seven new stars per year.Arp 142 lies 326 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra.Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)#ESA #Webb #Universe
Our Mars Express captured this unexpected visitor. 🌚 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-07 | It can be seen as a dark blob passing through to the lower left.Phobos sits very close to Mars by Solar System standards, orbiting just 6000 km from Mars’s surface. For context, our own moon lies about 385 000 km away from Earth’s surface.📹 ESA/NASA - Andreas Mogensen📸 ESA/DLR/FU Berlin#ESA #Mars #Phobos
Is it easier to catch a cold in space? 🤧 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-04 | Stress is a common response when the body finds itself in unfamiliar environments, such as space. Prolonged exposure to stress can weaken the body's defensive mechanisms, making it more susceptible to illness. Our astronaut Andreas Mogensen was in space, was part of a study to explore how space travel affects the human immune system. Before, during and after his Huginn mission, Andreas collected both blood and saliva samples to reveal how the body's defences adjust to space. This research is crucial for developing strategies to manage the health challenges faced by astronauts on long missions. 📹 ESA/NASA - Andreas Mogensen📸 CADMOS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität#ESA #Astronaut #Illness
Could the Arctic turn green? 🌿 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-08-01 | The Arctic Ocean has been going through so many changes.Sea ice is now seasonal, melting and disappearing from large areas during the summer months.This rapid warming is affecting not only the marine ecosystem but it will have widespread consequences that affect all of us.Tell this to an Arctic lover!🎥 ESA - European Space Agency🎞️ UiT / BREATHE, @pexels#ESA #Arctic #EarthObservation
Do you remember the auroras back in May? 🌞 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-07-29 | In the weekend of 10–12 May 2024, the biggest solar storm to hit Earth in over 20 years swept over our planet. This produced an intense geomagnetic storm, creating beautiful auroras.The culprit? An active sunspot region called AR3664. As it rotated away from Earth’s view around 14 May, it sent out the strongest flare yet (class X8.79), causing large radio blackouts on Earth. But the fact that we could not see it anymore from Earth did not mean that this monster had gone to sleep.Watching the Sun’s far side on 20 May, Solar Orbiter’s X-ray instrument STIX observed a massive flare with an estimated class of X12. This makes it the strongest flare yet of the current solar cycle, and in the top ten flares since 1996.📹 ESA - European Space Agency📸 ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI#ESA #Aurora #SpaceWeather
How Europe’s biggest rocket came to be: Ariane 6 montage European Space Agency, ESA 2024-07-25 | The first half of 2024 saw hundreds of people across Europe building, cajoling, shipping, lowering, integrating, securing and protecting the precious pieces and parts that came together to create Ariane 6 – Europe’s new heavy-lift rocket.Huge engines, boosters and outer shells met tiny screws, electrical boards and masses of supercooled fuel. All this came together at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, for the spectacular first launch of Ariane 6 on 9 July 2024, restoring Europe’s access to space.Get a glimpse at the teamwork, skill and care that went into this moment over many months, in this montage of Ariane 6 images, videos and timelapse photography spanning 30 January to 9 July 2024.★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Ariane6 #Rocket
Could we use AI to guide spacecraft in space? 🛰️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-07-23 | Drones are being raced at Delft University of Technology’s ‘Cyber Zoo’ to test the performance of neural-network-based AI control systems planned for next-generation space missions.The drones have to complete a course as fast as possible, showing how quickly and efficiently they can react, just like a spacecraft would need to in space. Normally, spacecraft manoeuvres are planned on the ground and then uploaded to the spacecraft to be carried out. But space is full of unpredictable events! Whenever the spacecraft deviates from its planned path for whatever reason, it has to use a lot of fuel and resources to get back on track. Instead, with this alternative AI control system that’s being tested here, the spacecraft would continuously recalculate and adjusts its path in real-time from wherever it is. This approach would be much more efficient because the spacecraft could handle unexpected changes better and use fewer resources to stay on course.📹 ESA - European Space Agency📸 ESA/TU Delft#ESA #AI #Satellite
Did you know we almost had a second moon? 🌚 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-07-20 | In 2016, scientists spotted Kamo’oalewa ,a 40 to 100 metre object, during a planetary defence survey to discover space rocks that could possibly hit our planet. At first, the object appeared to orbit Earth in a similar way to our Moon. But astronomers found it was actually orbiting the Sun on a very similar path to Earth. So, Kamo’oalewa was demoted from a potential new moon to a near-Earth asteroid and a quasi-satellite to Earth. However, the asteroid's connection to the Moon could run deeper. The object's Earth-like orbit and Moon-like composition may indicate that it was created when a chunk of the Moon was thrown into space by an asteroid impact.📹 ESA - European Space Agency#ESA #Moon #InternationalMoonDay
Did you know a comet once bruised Jupiter? ☄️ #Shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-07-18 | 30 years ago, the comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9, pounded into the southern hemisphere of Jupiter, leaving dark scars in the planet’s atmosphere that persisted for several weeks. The remarkable event was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision in the Solar System. Huge plumes up to 3 thousand kilometres high were created by the impact and raised the atmospheric temperatures to 40,000 degrees Celsius. Almost 10 years after the collision, our Herschel telescope found conclusive evidence that Shoemaker-Levy 9 was the origin of water found in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. Our Juice mission launched last year will map the distribution of Jupiter’s atmospheric ingredients in even greater detail. This kind of collision was more frequent in the early solar system but today, something as large as Shomaker-Levy impacts Earth only once in a million years. However, it is important we can protect ourselves from such space hazards which is why we are carrying out several projects dedicated to improving our ability to detect, track and mitigate potentially hazardous asteroids and comets, such as our Hera mission currently planned to launch later this year and our new mission, Ramses, which will to rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis. 📹 ESA - European Space Agency📸 HA. Weaver, T. ESmith (Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA/ESA 📸 ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen) 📸 H. Hammel, MIT and NASA/ESA 📸 Calar Alto Observatory/Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany #ESA #Jupiter #Asteroid
Will Apophis hit Earth? ☄️ #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-07-14 | Twenty years ago, astronomers discovered Apophis, an asteroid once feared to collide with Earth in 2029. Thanks to incredible advancements in science, the threat is now ruled out.However, Apophis will still pass closer than some satellites currently orbiting Earth and will be visible with the naked eye.This rare event is a great opportunity to study Apophis up close and prepare for future asteroid encounters.📹 ESA - European Space Agency📷 ESA/NASA#ESA #Apophis #Asteroid
Satellites in a box: students prepare for launch European Space Agency, ESA 2024-07-11 | Two university CubeSats, 3Cat4 and ISTSat-1, are catching a ride to space on the inaugural flight of Ariane 6. Ahead of launch, the student teams traveled to Exolaunch facilities in Berlin to integrate their satellites, a crucial milestone ahead of launch.Credits: ESA - European Space Agency—————————————————Chapters:00:00 - Introduction01:13 - Act 1 - Testing 1,2,305:15 - Act 2 - Satellite in a box07:01 - Act 3 - Ready, steady, integrate ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #ESAEducation #CubeSat
Tracking solar winds to its source 🌞💨 #shorts European Space Agency, ESA 2024-07-11 | Hot damn, we found it! ☀️The source of the solar wind is no longer a mystery thanks to our trailblazing Solar Orbiter mission. This success opens a new way for solar physicists to study the source regions of the solar wind.🎥 ESA - European Space Agency📸 ESA & NASA /Solar Orbiter/EUI & SPICE#ESA #Sun #SolarWind
Ariane 6 first flight highlights European Space Agency, ESA 2024-07-10 | Europe’s new rocket Ariane 6 powered into space on 9 July 2024 from a newly built dedicated launch pad in French Guiana. Liftoff occurred at 16:00 local time (20:00 BST, 21:00 CEST). Europe’s new rocket Ariane 6 powered Europe into space taking with it a varied selection of experiments, satellites, payload deployers and reentry demonstrations that represent thousands across Europe, from students to industry and experienced space actors. This inaugural flight, designated VA262, is a demonstration flight to show the capabilities and prowess of Ariane 6 in escaping Earth's gravity and operating in space. Nevertheless, it had several passengers on board. Ariane 6 was built by prime contractor and design authority ArianeGroup. In addition to the rocket, the liftoff demonstrated the functioning of the launch pad and operations on ground at Europe's Spaceport. The new custom-built dedicated launch zone was built by France's space agency CNES and allows for a faster turnover of Ariane launches. Ariane 6 is Europe’s newest heavy-lift rocket, designed to provide great power and flexibility at a lower cost than its predecessors. The launcher’s configuration – with an upgraded main stage, a choice of either two or four powerful boosters and a new restartable upper stage – will provide Europe with greater efficiency and possibility as it can launch multiple missions into different orbits on a single flight, while its upper stage will deorbit itself at the end of mission. ESA’s main roles in the Ariane 6 programme is as contracting authority – managing the budget from Member States participating in the Ariane 6 development programme; and as launch system architect – ensuring that the rocket and launch pad infrastructure work together. Ariane 6 is the latest in Europe's Ariane rocket series, taking over from Ariane 5 featuring a modular and versatile design that can launch missions from low-Earth orbit and farther out to deep space.Credits: ESA - European Space Agency★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe and click twice on the bell button to receive our notifications.Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideosFollow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitterOn Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebookOn Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagramOn LinkedIn: bit.ly/ESAonLinkedInOn Pinterest: bit.ly/ESAonPinterestOn Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickrWe are 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. Check out https://www.esa.int/ to get up to speed on everything space related.Copyright information about our videos is available here: https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Terms_and_Conditions#ESA #Ariane6 #Rocket
