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ESA’s Hera spacecraft is performing a flyby of Mars as we speak at 5000 km altitude at 12:51 UTC (8:51 a.m. EDT). Hera will also fly 300 km above Deimos. The gravity assist will shift Hera's trajectory towards its final destination of the Didymos binary asteroid system, which was impacted by NASA's DART spacecraft in 2022. There will be a live event tomorrow at 10:50 UTC (06:50 EDT) by Hera’s science team with talks and images. https://www.youtube.com/live/cHiASEowrio https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Watch_live_Images_from_Hera_s_Mars_flyby #Space #ESA 1/n

Images from Hera’s Mars flyby (Official broadcast)

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The increasing demand for on-orbit servicing (#OOS) ♻️ tasks, such as #satellite repair, #SpaceDebris removal, refueling, and upgrades, has driven the need for advanced #robotic 🤖 systems capable of autonomous and precise operations in #space 🌌. #Germany’s 🇩🇪 #DEOS focuses on rendezvous, capture, and de-orbiting of an uncontrollable satellite from its operational orbit. #ESA's 🇪🇺 #SpaceServicing vehicle is anticipated to launch by 📆 2028 https://spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/space.0291 #SpaceRobot
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With this first collection, #Euclid starts dominating the search for early Universe #quasars. This is no wonder: Euclid's wide survey provides unprecedented sensitivity at wavelengths into the near-infrared, which are key to identifying these rare accreting early black holes. Forecasts predict that in Euclid data even earlier quasars should be found: likely beyond z=8 (650 million years after the Big Bang) and possibly even z=9 (550 million years). #astronomy #ESAEuclid #ESA #blackholes
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Hey professional #astrodon folks! A pretty unique chance to become my colleague at #ESA - working as a project scientist on our newly adopted galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs: Job details: https://jobs.esa.int/job/Noordwijk-Project-Scientist/1414232033/ More about Arrakihs: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_adopts_galactic_archaeology_mission_Arrakihs
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Lightcurve Films make documentaries and videos about space, planetary science and European Space Agency missions. You can follow at: ➡️ @lightcurvefilms_socialmedia (Don't worry if it looks blank to you, that just means no one from your server follows it yet. If you follow, the account's videos will start gradually showing up on your server too.) #FeaturedPeerTube #Space #PlanetaryScience #ESA #EuropeanSpaceAgency #PeerTube
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