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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 07-11 Sep 2026.

1️⃣ FLEX and Sentinel-3C ready for launch 🛰️🛰️
2️⃣ Spectrum liftoff close up 🚀
3️⃣ Anak Krakatau eruption by Sentinel-3 🌋
4️⃣ Arctic isolation for science ⛵️
5️⃣ MTM separation at Mission Control 🥹
6️⃣ Biomass images mangrove degradation in the Niger Delta 🌳
7️⃣ CubeSat for safer seas and cleaner orbits ready to launch 🥼
8️⃣ ESA’s High-Level Forum with Industry 2026 🤝
9️⃣ Teams at ESOC during ESA’s FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C launch and early orbit (LEOP) simulations 👏

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/About_Us/Week_in_images/Week_in_images…

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Help us name Hera’s dinosaur mascot! 🦖

Our Hera mission is heading to the Didymos asteroid system to help advance planetary defence. And now its dinosaur mascot needs a name.

Why a dinosaur? Because dinosaurs didn't have a space agency when an asteroid struck Earth... but we do.

Share your best name ideas and you could win a place at Hera’s arrival celebration this November.

Learn more here 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Name_our_dino_ESA_s_…

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European Space Agency, ESA

📸 This was our #WeekInImages 31 Aug - 04 Sep 2026.

1️⃣ EVA-99: Sophie Adenot working in the vacuum of space 🧑‍🚀
2️⃣ Hubble's superbubble scene 🌌
3️⃣ FLEX and Sentinel-3C being sealed from view 🛰️
4️⃣ Decagon on Saturn’s south pole (colour image) 🪐
5️⃣ Samba's reentry 🥹
6️⃣ Tango's reentry 🥹
7️⃣ Roman lifts off on a mission to survey the infrared sky 🚀
8️⃣ MAGPIE signing ceremony 🤝

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Mercury Transfer Module separation confirmed! 📡 ✅

After nearly eight years in space and billions of kilometres travelled, #BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module has successfully separated.

Signal acquired via our Cebreros deep-space antenna confirms the spacecraft is healthy and operating as expected.

The MPO and Mio spacecrafts are now on their way to Mercury orbit insertion on 21 November.

Farewell, MTM. Mercury awaits. ☀️🛰️

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Go for launch ✅🚀

MTG-I2, Europe’s next-generation weather satellite, launches tonight aboard Ariane 6!

The satellite will complete the Meteosat Third Generation constellation, providing more detailed and frequent weather observations over Europe and northern Africa.

🚀 Live broadcast: youtube.com/live/vzytcrGSqUU
▶️ Join us live from 21:42 CEST
🕙 Liftoff expected at 22:10 CEST


📸 ESA - S. Corvaja

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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 17-21 August 2026.

1️⃣ ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot during EVA-97 🧑‍🚀
2️⃣ Petermann Glacier calves huge iceberg 🧊
3️⃣ LKH Milky Way merger (artist’s impression) 🌌
4️⃣ Cassiopée & εpsilon floating in the Cupola 🌍
5️⃣ Carbon monoxide from fires in North America 💨
6️⃣ Wildfire damage east of Belgrade, Serbia 🔥
7️⃣ Fuelling FLEX ⛽️
8️⃣ ESA and ATMOS during CDF concept study for Phoenix 3 🤝

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First spacewalk completed for Sophie Adenot 🧑‍🚀✅

Our astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon successfully completed US EVA-97 at 20:52 CEST on 18 August. It was Sophie’s first spacewalk and the first spacewalk conducted by a French woman.

During the 6-hour, 23-minute spacewalk, they removed the failed Space-To-Ground Antenna 2 (SGANT-2). Stuck bolts and connectors delayed the work, leading Mission Control to postpone installation of the replacement antenna to a future spacewalk. Instead, the duo secured the failed antenna to the Station’s truss before completing cleanup tasks and returning inside.

Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_…


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Join us live to watch our astronaut Sophie Adenot's first spacewalk.

📅 Tuesday, 18 August
▶️ 13:00 CEST. Broadcast starts
👩‍🚀 14:35 CEST. Spacewalk begins!

🇫🇷 Sophie will become the 5th French astronaut to perform a spacewalk, and hers will be the 31st spacewalk by a European on the ISS.

🍿 Watch it live: youtube.com/live/xgx9mTZnjG4

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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 10-14 August 2026.

1️⃣ Lion Nebula roars to life for Webb 🦁
2️⃣ 12 August total eclipse imaged by Marina Prol 🌒
3️⃣ IRS 3 Field (NIRCam and MIRI image) ✨
4️⃣ Proba-3’s eclipse hours before totality in Europe ☀️
5️⃣ Sophie Adenot prepares for her first spacewalk 🧑‍🚀
6️⃣ MTG-I2 is loaded with propellant 🛰️
7️⃣ Galileo Second Generation compatibility tests at Thales Alenia Space

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📸 This was our #WeekInImages 27-31 July 2026.

1️⃣ Earth and Proba-3’s Coronagraph play hide and seek 🌍
2️⃣ Themis during wet dress rehearsal 🚀
3️⃣ Earth from Space: New Orleans and the mighty Mississippi 🌎
4️⃣ Wildfires in Europe produce aerosols ‘seen’ from space 🔥
5️⃣ Pacific Ocean salinity June 2026 🌊
6️⃣ Retroreflector made by a student team from Ruhr University Bochum 🧑‍🎓
7️⃣ Ground displacement following Venezuela earthquakes 🌎

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