Week in images: 07-11 Sep 2026
Week in images: 07-11 Sep 2026 Discover our week through the lens
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A team of teams like never before: rehearsing a unique launch at ESA mission control
On 15 September, two spacecraft will leave Earth together aboard the same launcher from Europe's spaceport in Kourou: FLEX, ESA's photosynthesis mission, and Sentinel-3C, Copernicus' newest satellite monitoring Earth's oceans, land, ice and
Name our dino - ESA's Hera asteroid mission mascot!
The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence has a cartoon dinosaur for its mascot - because dinos were made extinct after an asteroid impact, but while they didn't have a space agency, people do! Now we're asking
MTM's selfie footage of BepiColombo's eight-year journey
Video: 00:04:20 Witness how over the last eight years, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has been travelling through the inner Solar System and aligning itself with Mercury's orbit. So far, it has travelled 9.9 billion km and completed nine
Watch: FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch on Vega-C
The European Space Agency's FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite are scheduled to launch together aboard a Vega-C rocket on 15 September at 03:21 CEST (14 September at 22:21 local time). Watch the VV30 launch live from Eu
MTG-I2 reaches its final orbit
Europe's Meteosat Third Generation Imager 2 (MTG-I2) satellite has reached its designated orbit at 36 000 km from Earth and is ready to begin its commissioning phase, preparing it to provide years of service to improve weather forecasting o
Anak Krakatau eruption by Sentinel-3
Image: Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured a plume from the eruption of Anak Krakatau on Saturday, 5 September.
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