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January–March 2026 was a busy season for us! Get up to speed on European space with our new ESA Impact visual report, out now 👉 esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/pub…

🔴 #LiveNow: media briefing following the 345th ESA Council meeting. 📺 watch.esa.int/Two/

Welcome Cyprus, our new Associate Member. 🇨🇾 👋 🔗 esa.int/Newsroom/Press…

Engineers are targeting 8 pm ET on Thursday, March 19, for rollout of Artemis II. NASA’s crawler-transporter 2 will carry the 11-million-pound stack at about 1 mph along the four-mile route from the Vehicle Assembly Building at @NASAKennedy to the launch pad.

#MediaInvitation: journalists are invited to join the online media briefing on 25 March ahead of the launch of #Smile on Vega‑C #VV29, launch window 8 April – 7 May 2026 from Europe’s Spaceport. Register by 23 March 👉 esa.int/Newsroom/Press…

The 278th spacewalk dedicated to the Station’s assembly, maintenance and upgrades is taking place today. ESA astronaut @Soph_astro and NASA astronaut @astro_hathaway supported this morning’s preparations, assisting the spacewalkers as they donned their spacesuits.

🚨NEW RELEASE🚨 The ESA #SpaceWeather Portal version 3.15.0 was released on 5 March 2026 with 🆕and updated products and tools 🧑🔧 We will take you through the✨highlights in the following weeks, in the meantime take a look for yourself!👇 🌐swe.ssa.esa.int #SpaceSafety


#WatchLive: Join us on 19 March at 13:00 GMT/14:00 CET for a media briefing following the 345th ESA Council meeting taking place in Interlaken, Switzerland. 📺 watch.esa.int




🌋 Piton de la Fournaise, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, is erupting again on Réunion Island 🇷🇪 🛰️ New #CopernicusEU Sentinel-2 #ImageOfTheDay (16 March) shows lava flowing 7 km to the ocean -cutting a major coastal road. 🔗 copernicus.eu/en/media/image…

🧊 🧲 How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm? 🧊 🧲 It seems improbable that a satellite designed to monitor polar ice could accurately measure a disturbance in Earth’s magnetic field. But that is just what ESA’s CryoSat mission did... 💅 esa.int/Applications/O…

Second mission. Same ambition. The @Amazonleo satellites for our next mission, VA268, have now arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, marking a new step in the deployment of the Amazon Leo constellation. In the coming weeks, Arianespace will begin the launch campaign, from satellite processing to integration on Ariane 6, preparing these payloads for their journey to low Earth orbit. The VA268 mission, designated LE-02 by Amazon, will fly on Ariane 6 in its four-booster configuration, a powerful setup particularly adapted to support the sustained deployment of large constellations. This mission is the second of 18 launches planned under our contract with Amazon, reflecting a long-term partnership built on performance, reliability and shared ambition to expand global connectivity from space. More updates soon from Kourou. #LaunchingAmbitions @ArianeGroup @esa @CNES @EuropeSpacePort

Day 030, orbit 0469 – Sunday morning science with Sophie, episode 1: the gyroscope 🌀. Jour 030, orbite 0469 – La science du dimanche matin avec Sophie, épisode 1 : le gyroscope 🌀. #εpsilon • @esa • @esaspaceflight • @ESA_fr • @Space_Station

NASA teams have polled 'go' to proceed toward Artemis II's launch around the Moon. We're targeting March 19 to roll the rocket out to the launchpad at @NASAKennedy in advance of a launch attempt on April 1, pending completion of work at the pad: go.nasa.gov/4b8jgq3

Our #HubbleTopImage features the Meathook Galaxy! The Meathook Galaxy (NGC 2442) has a dramatically lopsided shape – one spiral arm is tightly folded in on itself while the other extends far out from the nucleus. This is thought to be due to gravitational interactions with another galaxy at some point in its history. This close-up from Hubble, shared in 2011, focuses on the galaxy’s nucleus and the more compact of its two spiral arms, which was the site of a supernova in 1999! 💥 Read more: ow.ly/O6ur50YscSG #HubbleTopImage 📷 @NASA , @ESA

🔴 #LiveNow: join the online media briefing for the first launch of Celeste on #ESAWebTV 🔗 watch.esa.int/two/
