#DLR:
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Ende einer Ära – Wissenschaftssatellit Gaia wird abgeschaltet
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"Der Wissenschaftssatellit Gaia wird am 27. März 2025 mit einem letzten Befehl in den endgültigen Ruhezustand versetzt.
Aus den Daten von Gaia wird der bislang größte existierende Sternenkatalog entstehen. .."

https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/2025/ende-einer-aera-wissenschaftssatellit-gaia-wird-abgeschaltet

27.3.2025

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Airbus entwickelt und baut die Rover-Landeplattform ExoMars der ESA
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"Airbus wurde von der .. ESA + Thales Alenia Space (TAS) - ein Joint Venture von Thales .. + Leonardo ..-, dem industriellen Hauptauftragnehmer von ExoMars, mit dem Bau von Schlüsselsystemen für den ExoMars-Lander beauftragt, der den Rover Rosalind Franklin sicher auf der Oberfläche .. absetzen wird."

29.3.2025

https://www.airbus.com/sites/g/files/jlcbta136/files/2025-03/DE-Airbus-SpS-Press-Release-Airbus-to-design-and-build-ESAs-ExoMars-rover-lander-platform.pdf

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCem0E-0Q6Y
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-49.6545&mlon=-79.9634&zoom=2

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4YaEcNlb0
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=40.5516&mlon=134.1977&zoom=2

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCem0E-0Q6Y
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-9.2255&mlon=-19.2002&zoom=2

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4YaEcNlb0
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-18.0781&mlon=-160.3169&zoom=2

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Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCem0E-0Q6Y
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.1129&mlon=-14.8054&zoom=2

The Milky Way, if we could see it from above.

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/01/The_best_Milky_Way_map_by_Gaia

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCem0E-0Q6Y
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-47.1436&mlon=-143.0224&zoom=2

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCem0E-0Q6Y
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=26.2308&mlon=62.5852&zoom=2

Eine Ära geht zu Ende: Nach zwölf Jahren im All wurde das europäische Weltraumteleskop Gaia nun abgeschaltet – einer der erfolgreichsten Astronomiehelfer im All. #Gaia #ESA #Teleskop #Astronomie #GaiaTeleskop
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/weltraumteleskop-gaia-ist-abgeschaltet/

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4YaEcNlb0
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-2.9199&mlon=-77.0743&zoom=2

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4YaEcNlb0
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-39.5037&mlon=122.6010&zoom=2

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4YaEcNlb0
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.8052&mlon=-32.1262&zoom=2

The #European #Space Agency #ESA has powered down its #Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data that are now being used to unravel the secrets of our home galaxy. On 27 March 2025, Gaia’s control team at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre carefully switched off the spacecraft’s subsystems and sent it into a ‘retirement orbit’ around the Sun. #SpaceScience #Astronomy #Science https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Farewell_Gaia!_Spacecraft_operations_come_to_an_end

I look at a lot of space images, but this one made my eyes bug out like a cartoon character.

What you see here isn't a spiral galaxy, exactly. It's a spiral galaxy whose image was bent into a circle by the gravity of an elliptical galaxy visible at the center.

Warped space, right before your eyes!

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2503a/ #space #science #art #nasa #esa

Proba-3's first autonomous formation flight

Two spacecraft flying as one – that is the goal of #ESA ’s #Proba3 mission.

“Once the on-board autonomy was activated, the spacecraft measured and controlled their relative positioning using the Visual Based System, which consists of a wide-angle camera on the Occulter tracking a set of flashing LED lights on the Coronagraph, supplemented by a narrow-angle camera that enables a more precise positioning.”

Animation

Live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG4YaEcNlb0
Current location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-39.1710&mlon=-118.9028&zoom=2

Space Probe Captures Rare View of Mars’ Second Moon https://petapixel.com/2025/03/27/space-probe-hera-captures-rare-view-of-mars-second-moon-deimos/ #europeanspaceagency #heraprobe #redplanet #asteroid #deimos #phobos #Space #dart #mars #moon #esa