30 June 2017
A line up of global events for Asteroid Day 2017
... from the mission. ESA will then broadcast a live segment from the European Space Operations Centre – ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany. ESA already has a hands-on approach for dealing with the threat of a collision by a near-Earth...
19 October 2018
Countdown begins for the launch of BepiColombo
... (03:45 CEST) on 20 October, on board an Ariane 5 rocket. Once the spacecraft separates from the rocket's 'upper stage', teams at ESOC will take over to get the spacecraft into normal operational mode — a process that is expected to take about...
