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At the invitation of ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson attended the ESA Council at ESA’s establishment ESTEC in the Netherlands on 15 June 2022.
ESA is currently working with NASA on many areas, from science such as the James Webb Space Telescope to exploration such as Mars Sample Return, Artemis and the International Space Station, to Earth observation.
At the ESA Council, a framework agreement between ESA and NASA for a strategic partnership in Earth System Science was signed, as well as a memorandum of understanding between ESA and NASA on the Lunar Pathfinder mission.
Credits: ESA-S.Corvaja
This colourful design capturing the scientific essence of ESA’s upcoming Cheops exoplanet mission – characterising planets as they transit in front of their host star – has been selected as the winning design that will be featured on the rocket that will launch the satellite into space.
The design was one of over 300 submitted to the competition that offered graphic designers and artists the unique opportunity to feature their work on the rocket that will launch Cheops – the CHaracterising ExOplanets Satellite – to Earth orbit.
The design was created by Denis Vrenko of Celje, Slovenia, a 25 year-old graphic designer and final-year architecture student at the University of Ljubljana.
Full story: Winning exoplanet rocket sticker selected
Credits: ESA/D. Vrenko
Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.
This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
Eight tunnels will allow trains to reach four platforms in two adjacent caverns.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Entrepreneurs gather beside a replica of a European Meteosat weather satellite at ESA’s Business Incubation Centre Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
A close neighbour of the Agency’s ESTEC technical heart, ESA BIC Noordwijk is one of a 20-strong network of ESA BICs across Europe, providing technical and business support to startup companies transferring innovative space technology to terrestrial markets.
ESA BIC Noordwijk manager Martijn Leinweber explains: “We’ve successfully incubated more than 100 companies to date during the last decade, offering support to every stage of the startup process.
“Ideas harnessed by current startups here include applying solid rocket technology to firefighting, hyperspectral imaging to improve the health of vineyards and standardised battery storage for solar arrays.”
As a whole, ESA’s BIC network has incubated more than 700 start-ups, creating thousands of new jobs and boosting regional economies.
Space has become an integrated part of our daily lives. From smartphones to agricultural monitoring, the socio-economic benefits of space activities are so diverse that they are not always so obvious to the general public. ESA focuses this week on what space is doing for the economy, in particular, highlighting the flourishing applications domain and business opportunities.
Credits: ESA–G. Porter
J-5: À Baïkonour, l'équipage n'est pas censé voir sa fusée avant le jour du décollage... mais ici la tradition est différente ! Nous avons eu la chance d'arriver au Kennedy Space Center au moment précis où le Falcon 9 était verticalisé sur le pas de tir. C'est toujours impressionnant de le voir de si près, comme en témoignent nos nombreuses photos et selfies
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L-5: In Baikonur the crew is not supposed to see their rocket before launch, but this is a tradition we don’t have here! We were lucky enough to arrive at NASA's Kennedy Space Center the exact time the rocket was erected into the vertical position on the launch pad. Always impressive to see it from up close... impressive enough for our crew to snap lots of photos and selfies!
Credits: ESA–T. Pesquet
The 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2022), taking place from 18 to 22 September at the Paris Convention Centre in Paris, France. A week of lively interactions awaits the world space community, this year under the theme 'Space for @ll'. The congress will open its doors to the general public on 21 September.
Credits: ESA - P. Sebirot
Ataraxia
No es una triste mirada, es una visión tranquila, una
exquisita mezcla entre moral y calma, percibiendo el olor de
las piedras para aferrarse a la vida salvajemente,
sintiose viva desde aquél noviembre en que se fue de su
madre con su vestido de agua y su música infinita,
una delicada afinidad armónica, gradual, equitativa,
un excitante equilibrio,
un anormal atisbo de veracidad le ha regalado, quizá,
la fragilidad en los pasillos vacíos de su soledad acompañada,
la mañana no la adormece, la realza en su cordura,
su sabor por las buenas templanzas conocen del sexo del
arco iris y solo en su medida palabra vive la
excelencia del sentir,
me dicta mi silencio que no sería de ella que aprendiera la
destrucción del amor de algodón en algún montañoso
minuto si se entregara mi espíritu por escuchar la voz
de su trompeta,
sin desconocer su sensualidad y sin traicionar su armadura
me habrá enseñado a seguir una gozosa marcha entre
las tormentas del invierno, cuando el diablo ingenuo
nacía en mí y fallecía,
en alguna primavera anterior habrán quedado sus fascinantes
recuerdos cultivando fortalezas y cosechando las
sonrisas de azúcar,
acaso un eterno sol dorado le acariciara la piel para
zozobrar en su espalda llameante y recordarle
su incurable romanticismo en el espejo de su alma,
desnuda esponja que ama y succiona el devenir de la
vida tan solo con su genuina bandera,
insuflando el amor a voluntad con su ataviada
manera en el sendero acuático sin restringir el vagido
del beso,
desconozco la vehemencia de la lágrima y el escozor
de sus noches tristes mientras se desliza la magia y sus
pasos retumban silenciosos,
quizá la espuma de su mar interior le haga ver del amor
que existen días consecuentes en que es mejor perderlo para
poder encontrarlo y así tal vez halle en esa bendita
esquina quien le diga desde lo íntimo y con su sincera verdad...
jamás dejaría de vivir(te)... pero jamás dejaría de morir(me).
Jorge Rosso
Un deleite musical...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O-y6fv9FLc
Gracias por su visita a todos y cada uno... aprecio mucho cada gesto!!...
This is J0624-6948, a supernova remnant observed by XMM-Newton.
Read more about this discovery here!
[Image description: This image shows dark purple and bright yellow spots against a pitch-black background, that appear like neon lights outside a window in a city at night. In the centre of the image, the spots cluster to loosely form a ring, which is mostly purple.]
Credits: Eckhard Slawik, ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Sasaki et al (2025)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
F. Zangrandi
The European Space Agency has chosen 17 new astronaut candidates from more than 22 500 applicants from across its Member States. In this new 2022 class of ESA astronauts are five career astronauts, 11 members of an astronaut reserve and one astronaut with a disability.
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher introduced the members of the 2022 ESA astronaut class, the first new recruits in 13 years, today at the Grand Palais Éphémère in Paris, France, shortly after the ESA Council at Ministerial level ended.
The ESA astronaut candidates are:
- Sophie Adenot from France
- Pablo Álvarez Fernández from Spain
- Meganne Christian from the United Kingdom
- Anthea Comellini from Italy
- Rosemary Coogan from the United Kingdom
- Sara García Alonso from Spain
- Raphaël Liégeois from Belgium
- John McFall from the United Kingdom
- Andrea Patassa from Italy
- Carmen Possnig from Austria
- Arnaud Prost from France
- Amelie Schoenenwald from Germany
- Marco Sieber from Switzerland
- Aleš Svoboda from Czech Republic
- Sławosz Uznański from Poland
- Marcus Wandt from Sweden
- Nicola Winter from Germany
Credits: ESA - S. Corvaja
The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people and is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. Researchers suggest that parts of the megacity could be entirely submerged by 2050.
By using a large number of radar satellite images over a two-year period, it is possible to accurately calculate ground subsidence. This image shows the mean ground displacement rates based on Sentinel-1 radar data from 2017-2018. Areas in red show major displacement over time with some areas showing local sinking patterns reach around 12 cm per year.
By comparing radar images over time, data from Sentinel-1 can be used to generate detailed displacement maps, essential for tracking subsidence, landslides, volcanic activity and infrastructure stability.
Credits: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, GEP, CNR-IREA & BRGM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.
This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
Eight tunnels will allow trains to reach four platforms in two adjacent caverns.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is helped aboard a helicopter on the SpaceX recovery ship Megan to fly to Jacksonville, Florida with NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines and Jessica Watkins, after the four landed in their SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Lindgren, Hines, Watkins, and Cristoforetti are returning after 170 days in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.
This photo shows work on tunnels leading into caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Launched on 5 September 2024 on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite has delivered its first images. These spectacular views of Earth offer a sneak peek at the data that this new satellite will provide for Copernicus – Europe’s world-leading Earth observation programme.
Thanks to the satellite’s impressive 290-km-wide swath, one of these first images, captured on 14 September, provides a long strip that stretches from the Camargue and Montpellier in southern France all the way down to south of Barcelona in Spain.
Zoom in to explore this image at 40 m spatial resolution or click on the circles to learn more.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
The East Side Access megaproject is connecting the LIRR to a new passenger concourse underneath Grand Central Terminal. This photo shows an update on the status of construction on the Manhattan side of the project, as of June 2013.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
Dicen que los perfumes van siempre en frasco pequeño, aunque es frecuente que algún "desaborío" afirme que también lo hace el veneno. Sea como fuere lo indudable es que la cortedad de un mercante resulta, paradojas de la vida, espectacular.
Y así ocurrió aquel día posterior a la huelga general. Tras pasar el supermegatecazo de 650 metros con doble de Traxx hizo lo propio este, a cantón.
Para mi desgracia también ha sido la última vez que han pasado frente a mí un par de japonesas... Es lo que tiene cuando se es una especie en extinción.
Alfafar-Massanassa (Valencia)
¿Cómo compaginar
la aniquiladora
idea de la muerte
con ese incontenible
afán de vida?
¿cómo acoplar el horror
ante la nada que vendrá
con la invasora alegría
del amor provisional
y verdadero?
¿cómo desactivar la lápida con el sembradío?
¿la guadaña
con el clavel?
¿será que el hombre es eso?
¿esa batalla?
Mario Benedetti
ESA's Kiruna station supports CryoSat, Integral, the Swarm trio and Sentinel 1A. It is located at Salmijärvi, 38 km east of Kiruna, in northern Sweden. Image credit: ESA - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
As mazáns camoesas teñen fama, entre nós, de ter o seu nome do lugar de Camos, en Pontevedra, e de ter o mesmo apelido que o poeta Camões. En castelán chámase, -a primeira documentación en 1513-, camuesa. Unha mazán moi doce, aromática. Américo Castro di que camuesa debe vir do vello francés camus, chato, de narís aplastado. Pro Corominas coida que é máis natural que o nome dunha caste especial de mazáns veña do dunha localidade que dunha verba prerromán, (comp. canaval, clase de mazaeiro agrio, en Fernández de Oviedo, que ven evidentemente dun dos numerosos lugares galegos chamados Canaval).
La roja y aurea hespérida camuesa,
en un principio del dragón guardada...
que louva Lope na Jerusalén Conquistada, cree Nascentes, según Corominas, que se "refiere a Camós (sic), en el S.O. de Galicia. Mas para Covarrubias sería el lugar de Portugal que dio nombre al gran poeta homónimo". Severim de Faria asegura que hai noticias de que os "peros camoeses" tomaron nome do territorio de Camões... De onde veña, en fin, a palabra, non está moi claro, pero despóis de saber todas as dificultades semánticas, dende o celta camb-, curvo, deica camuso, chato, en Boccaccio, e Camos ou Camões, esa mazán sábenos máis, como a Russell os melocotóns, dende que soupo a súa historia, que se remonta a uns ósos que atopou o gran rei Janiska nas faldriqueiras duns prisioneiros chineses, fai tantos e tantos séculos...
Álvaro Cunqueiro, A cociña galega, 1973.
MÚSICA: Gary Kazoo - "I Like Apples"
The European Space Agency will soon be releasing a new, cost efficient way of keeping a low-orbit manned presence in space. The whole unit is carried to orbit by an ESA rocket. A nuclear missile is housed in the rear, and the solar panel and engine/comm array detach from the habitation vessel. They re-attach to form a satellite that is left in orbit, while the pilot returns to earth!
ESA's technical heart, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, opened its gates to visitors on 2 October 2016 for the annual Open Day.
Credit: ESA-SJM Photography
On 7 October 2018 we opened the doors of ESTEC, our technical heart in the Netherlands, and welcomed more than 7600 people on a day full of activities including meet-and-greet with astronauts, tours around our test rooms, learning about the science in science fiction, and about the activities ESA does in all its establishments around Europe and beyond.
Credits: ESA–G. Porter
ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft launches aboard a ULA Atlas V rocket (NASA's main contribution) from pad 41 at the Kennedy Space Center. I was fortunate to be part of a team building scientific hardware for this mission. 9 February 2020.
As part of the East Side Access megaproject, the MTA is building a new concourse for the Long Island Rail Road under Grand Central Terminal. This photo shows progress as of October 2013.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
This pair of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images of Mars taken on 28 December (top) and 29 December (bottom) 2024. Each image shows a different side of the planet, with the accompanying moon Phobos. Various features are identified in the images, including the polar ice caps and clouds, as well as multiple terrestrial features.
At the midpoint of the observations, Mars was approximately 98 million kilometres from Earth. Thin water-ice clouds that are apparent in ultraviolet light give the Red Planet a frosty appearance. The icy northern polar cap was experiencing the start of Martian spring.
In the top image, the bright orange Tharsis plateau is visible with its chain of dormant volcanoes. The largest volcano, Olympus Mons, pokes above the clouds at the 10 o’clock position near the northwest limb. At an elevation of over 21 000 meters, it is 2.5 times the height of Mt. Everest above sea level. Valles Marineris, Mars’ over 4,000-kilometre-long canyon system, is a dark, linear, horizontal feature near center left.
In the bottom image, high-altitude evening clouds can be seen along the planet’s eastern limb. The 2,250-kilometre-wide Hellas basin, an ancient asteroid impact feature, appears far to the south. Most of the hemisphere is dominated by the classical “shark fin” feature, Syrtis Major.
[Image description: Two views of Mars. Top left text: Mars & Phobos, Hubble Space Telescope; filters in colors: F275W, purple; F410M, blue; F502N, green; F673N, red. Top image: December 28, 2024 20:00 UT. Most of the planet is shades of orange. The brightest orange area on the left half. At the top and bottom, white polar caps. Limb is blue. Text top center: northern polar cap, clouds. On planet, top to bottom, left to right: Arcadia Planitia, Tempe Terra, Acidalia Planitia; Olympus Monds; Tharsis Montes, Chryse Planitia; Valles Marineris, Terra Meridiana; Solus Planum; Argyre Planitia, Noachis Terra. To the right, dot: Phobos. Lower image: December 29, 2024 13:18 UT. Compass arrows at right, north pointing up, = east left. The planet has similar features; the brightest orange area is two centered two blobs. Text above Mars: northern polar cap, clouds. On-planet: Utopia Planitia; Arabia Terra, Syrtis Major; Terra Meridiani, Schiaparelli Crater, clouds; Noachis Terra, Huygens Crater, Syrtis Minor; Hellas Planitia. At left, dot: Phobos.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, STScI; CC BY 4.0
Segolene Royal, COP21 President, together with Jan Woerner, ESA Director General; Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation; Claudie Haigneré, Advisor to the Director General of ESA; ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet; and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES; at the ESA Pavilion, during the Paris Air and Space Show, on 19 June 2017.
Credit: ESA-Philippe Sebirot