ESA’s proposed Hera mission is part of an international cooperation aimed at testing whether the orbit of an asteroid can be shifted by smashing into it. Watch its full mission profile
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The newly installed International Commercial Experiments service – ICE Cubes for short – facility providing commercial access to microgravity will soon receive the first experiment cubes after today’s successful SpaceX Dragon resupply launch.

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Get ready for Asteroid Day 2018 and find out what is a near-Earth asteroid and why we should care about them
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The world’s first 48-hour webcast about asteroids and their place in space will begin at 12:00 CEST, on Friday, 29 June 2018. Kicking off this exciting event, physicist, science advocate and former rock star Brian Cox will host the first 6-hour segment live from Luxembourg.

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Operations image of the week: Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft arrived at asteroid Ryugu on 27 June, following a 42-month journey supported in part by ESA ground stations
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After completion of an independent review, a new launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced: 30 March 2021.

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An object from another star system that made a brief appearance in our skies guised as an asteroid turns out to be a tiny interstellar comet.

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Data from the international Cassini spacecraft have revealed complex organic molecules originating from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, strengthening the idea that this ocean-world hosts conditions suitable for life.

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Technology image of the week: In one of the cleanest places in Europe, an ESA engineer works to reduce the ‘bioburden’ of terrestrial microbes on this ExoMars antenna
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