European Space History

Posting about the history of Europe's great space adventure

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

@JeffreyGuterman Nice, but this image was taken by ESA's Mars Express in 2018. See https://t.co/B6AjrqWHjA

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

@mcgrowi @NASAhistory @esa @Space_Station @Astro_Alex Yay, @Astro_Alex! 👍

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

For more views into yesteryear, you can now follow on:
🔵https://t.co/LBg2e9QuPE 🔵https://t.co/r8i0FjNYvT

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

@astro_andre 😔Gecondoleerd André, en veel sterkte.

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

Part two of our #ESAarchives series on 'how a make a new space organisation' looks at the day it all happened – come back to 30 May 1975 and discover exactly how it all came together to make @ESA!

🔗https://t.co/bADprGPH01

#Roadto1975 #60yearsELDOandESRO #50YearsOfESA

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

How do you make a new space organisation?

Find out with the #ESAarchives in a special two-part series looking at the people and processes that created ESA in 1975, as we get ready for fifty years of ESA next year! Part one starts with drafting a Convention...

🔗https://t.co/GHMxsI3wOU

#Roadto1975 #60yearsELDOandESRO #50YearsOfESA

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

@MissionSoho Congratulations!🥳

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

Our #ESAarchives series on ESRO’s Directors General concludes this month with Alexander Hocker, DG from 1971 to 1974. December's #ObjectOfTheMonth tells the story of a framed portrait and takes us to the transition from ESRO to ESA, ready for ESA’s 50th anniversary next year! #Roadto1975 #60yearsELDOandESRO

🔗https://t.co/RuqryyKMuX

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

See also Arturo Russo's 'The early development of the Telecommunications Satellite Programme in ESRO (1965-1971)' ESA HSR-09, 1993
🔗https://t.co/RUlMlin5fY

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

This week, #ESAarchives are investigating the opening chapter in the story of ESA research in telecommunications – we’ve just opened a new collection of material from the first ESRO telecommunications studies from 1967-72 👇
🔗https://t.co/eUN0eNq3Tk

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

#OTD 17 November 2016, launch of #ESA's @Thom_astro Pesquet 🇫🇷 on his 6-month #Proxima mission to @Space_Station w/@AstroPeggy & cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky
#Shenanigans
@esaspaceflight @ESA_fr @NASAhistory
🔗 https://t.co/jDbBnk77bK

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

#OTD 16 November 2022, NASA headed back to the Moon together with #ESA, with the launch of #ArtemisI, a @NASA_Orion spacecraft powered by the #ESM1 European Service Module
#Artemis #ForwardToTheMoon
@esaspaceflight @NASAhistory @NASAArtemis @NASAKennedy
🔗 https://t.co/QrzDxN3Rbl

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

#OTD 14 November 2000, #Portugal 🇵🇹 acceded to the #ESA Convention, becoming ESA's 15th Member State
@AschbacherJosef
🔗https://t.co/D9sgiS74QH

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

#ESAarchives are issuing an appeal for donations! We’re looking for material from ESA’s predecessors COPERS, ELDO and ESRO, who operated throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, prior to the creation of ESA in 1975. Can you help us reconstruct their legacy?

🔗https://t.co/5ftFOochmK

#60yearsELDOandESRO

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

#OTD 🔟 years ago, 12 November 2014, the third of a trio of music videos featuring music composed specially by #Vangelis was released to celebrate the first landing on a comet by ESA's #Rosetta mission.

@ElsewDotCom @AirbusSpace @esascience @DLR_en @esaoperations @NASAhistory

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

Seems like only yesterday!
#CometLandingRelived ☄️

[European Space Agency @esa]

Can you believe it has been 10 years since we landed on a comet?

On 12 November 2014, after a ten-year journey through the Solar System and over 500 million kilometres from home, our Rosetta mission’s lander Philae made history by touching down on a comet for the first time.

We're celebrating this extraordinary feat by taking a look back over the mission's highlights ➡️ https://t.co/qgtGStyk4G
(📽️ESA/@landru79)

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

#OTD 🔟 years ago: 12 November 2014, @ESA_Rosetta
made history by landing a probe on the surface of a comet, 1st ever to do so. The signal confirming touchdown of @Philae2014 on #Comet67P was received by @esaoperations #ESOC
#CometLandingRelived
🔗https://t.co/2LoA98p4Rr

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

Follow along with #CometLandingRelived!

[ESA Science @esascience]

Welcome to our week-long replay of #CometLandingRelived coverage as we recall @ESA_Rosetta & @philae2014’s dramatic feat of space exploration ten years ago this week, with all of its unexpected twists and turns...or should that be bounces…?!

Let’s pick up the story the night before landing, with four critical “Go/No-Go” moments to complete before @ESA_Rosetta gets the green light to release lander @Philae2014 towards #Comet67P /Churyumov-Gerasimenko 1/

[European Space History @EuroSpaceHist]

#OTD 4⃣0⃣ years ago: 10 November 1984, one of Europe’s 1st telecommunications satellites, #MARECS B2, launched on #Ariane3 V11 from @EuropeSpacePort
🚀🛰️
@EsaTelecoms @Arianespace @CNES @viasat
🔗 https://t.co/LFQvaYcRjk