European Space History
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Part two of our #ESAarchives series on 'how a make a new space organisation' looks at the day it all happened – come back to 30 May 1975 and discover exactly how it all came together to make @ESA! 🔗 #Roadto1975 #60yearsELDOandESRO #50YearsOfESA
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How do you make a new space organisation? Find out with the #ESAarchives in a special two-part series looking at the people and processes that created ESA in 1975, as we get ready for fifty years of ESA next year! Part one starts with drafting a Convention... 🔗 #Roadto1975 #60yearsELDOandESRO #50YearsOfESA
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Our #ESAarchives series on ESRO’s Directors General concludes this month with Alexander Hocker, DG from 1971 to 1974. December's #ObjectOfTheMonth tells the story of a framed portrait and takes us to the transition from ESRO to ESA, ready for ESA’s 50th anniversary next year! #Roadto1975 #60yearsELDOandESRO 🔗
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See also Arturo Russo's 'The early development of the Telecommunications Satellite Programme in ESRO (1965-1971)' ESA HSR-09, 1993 🔗
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#OTD 17 November 2016, launch of #ESA's @Thom_astro Pesquet 🇫🇷 on his 6-month #Proxima mission to @Space_Station w/@AstroPeggy & cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky #Shenanigans
@esaspaceflight @ESA_fr @NASAhistory 🔗
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#OTD 16 November 2022, NASA headed back to the Moon together with #ESA, with the launch of #ArtemisI, a @NASA_Orion spacecraft powered by the #ESM1 European Service Module #Artemis #ForwardToTheMoon
@esaspaceflight @NASAhistory @NASAArtemis @NASAKennedy 🔗
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#OTD 14 November 2000, #Portugal 🇵🇹 acceded to the #ESA Convention, becoming ESA's 15th Member State @AschbacherJosef 🔗
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#ESAarchives are issuing an appeal for donations! We’re looking for material from ESA’s predecessors COPERS, ELDO and ESRO, who operated throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, prior to the creation of ESA in 1975. Can you help us reconstruct their legacy? 🔗 #60yearsELDOandESRO
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#OTD 🔟 years ago, 12 November 2014, the third of a trio of music videos featuring music composed specially by #Vangelis was released to celebrate the first landing on a comet by ESA's #Rosetta mission. @ElsewDotCom @AirbusSpace @esascience @DLR_en @esaoperations @NASAhistory
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Seems like only yesterday! #CometLandingRelived ☄️
Can you believe it has been 10 years since we landed on a comet? On 12 November 2014, after a ten-year journey through the Solar System and over 500 million kilometres from home, our Rosetta mission’s lander Philae made history by touching down on a comet for the first time. We're celebrating this extraordinary feat by taking a look back over the mission's highlights ➡️ (📽️ESA/@landru79)
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#OTD 🔟 years ago: 12 November 2014, @ESA_Rosetta made history by landing a probe on the surface of a comet, 1st ever to do so. The signal confirming touchdown of @Philae2014 on #Comet67P was received by @esaoperations #ESOC
#CometLandingRelived 🔗
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Follow along with #CometLandingRelived!
Welcome to our week-long replay of #CometLandingRelived coverage as we recall @ESA_Rosetta & @philae2014’s dramatic feat of space exploration ten years ago this week, with all of its unexpected twists and turns...or should that be bounces…?! Let’s pick up the story the night before landing, with four critical “Go/No-Go” moments to complete before @ESA_Rosetta gets the green light to release lander @Philae2014 towards #Comet67P /Churyumov-Gerasimenko 1/
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#OTD 4⃣0⃣ years ago: 10 November 1984, one of Europe’s 1st telecommunications satellites, #MARECS B2, launched on #Ariane3 V11 from @EuropeSpacePort 🚀🛰️ @EsaTelecoms @Arianespace @CNES @viasat 🔗
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#OTD 9 November 2005, launch of Venus Express, #ESA's 1st probe to #Venus. The mission ended in 2014 after 8 years of service @esascience 🔗
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🎉👏☄️ Seems only yesterday @PaoloFerriSpace !
On the verge of making space exploration history at a comet over half a billion kilometres away and ten years from home, a critical component on a tiny lander fails; but when the difficult decision is given to attempt the landing anyway, and the lander goes missing after touchdown, extraordinary teamwork is needed to complete the science mission before the battery runs out… 📷 ESA/J.Mai
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#OTD 7 November 2018, the 3rd #MetOp satellite, MetOp-C, was launched from @EuropeSpacePort, continuing the provision of data for weather forecasting from polar orbit 🚀 🔗
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