Juan Luis Cano González

At last ESA's Hera spacecraft for planetary defence has come close enough to resolve both bodies in the Didymos binary asteroid system separately - the smaller one was deflected by NASA's DART back in 2022 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Check out the BBC Science Focus Magazine guide to ESA's Space Safety programme - focused on safeguarding our planet against threats from space - which includes Hera! www.sciencefocus.com/space/astero...

Happy launchversary #BepiColombo ! 🎂🚀🎉 Here’s to an extraordinarily complex, challenging, transformative mission! ☀️🌑🛰️ @esa.int #JAXA #ISAS #Mercury @science.esa.int

¿No es impresionante este espectáculo cósmico? noirlab.edu/public/news/...

🤝We're teaming up with IAU CPS to keep the night sky dark and quiet. Satellites' reflected light and radio frequency interference challenge professional astronomy as well as simple stargazing 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety... Credit: F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser

Launched two years ago today, ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence is preparing for its single most challenging activity since lift-off: the sustained braking manoeuvre allowing it to approach its target asteroids! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

🎂Happy birthday Hera🛰️! ESA’s asteroid mission for planetary defence lifted off two years ago today! 📽️But where is Hera about to arrive at, and how might its discoveries one day help save planet Earth...?

Ayer participé en el día de puertas abiertas de ESAC en Madrid. Fue una maravilla ver a tanta gente interesada en lo que hacemos en la ESA y disfrutando de un día lleno de actividades espaciales. #ESAOpenDay

ESA's proposed Neomir spacecraft will use the infrared to spot asteroids hidden in the Sun's glare. It is a planetary defence mission but one with considerable scientific potential - as shown in this week's inaugural Neomir Science Workshop in Nice, France neomir-nice.sciencesconf.org?lang=en

💡Key takeaways from the new ESA 2026 Space Environment Report: long-term projections worsen drastically. Read the bite-size summary of the yearly status report on space debris and the impact of mitigation measures 👉 esa.int/Space_Safety...

Metre-sized meteoroid 2026 RW1 (previously known as CERNQ52) hit the ocean off NW Australia on Sunday afternoon - but the impact was forecast roughly six hours in advance, using ESA’s Meerkat automated system for predicting imminent impactors! neo.ssa.esa.int/imminent-imp...

A historic night for European spaceflight. Huge congratulations to Daniel Metzler and the entire Isar aerospace team on reaching orbit with Spectrum 🚀 from continental Europe. www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

What do you know about Copernicus Sentinel-3? Since 2016, Sentinel-3 has been monitoring oceans, land, ice & the atmosphere, helping us understand climate change. Ahead of Sentinel-3C’s launch, discover how the mission contributes to understanding our changing planet: www.esa.int/Applications...

Our warning system Meerkat has detected a new small meteoroid impacting the Earth in the next hour. Don't be afraid! It is just around 1 metre in size and it will just make a great show in the sky.

🫶 And there were none... Tango danced its final dance and reentered the atmosphere at 23:30:31 CEST. The signal from the spacecraft via Kourou was lost forever 13 minutes earlier. But once more: the airborne observation campaign has reported success - stay tuned! blogs.esa.int/rocketscienc...

🔥Samba’s reentry was recorded! There is fire streaking across the sky in this first image from the ROSIE plane campaign. Credit: ESA/ROSIE/University of Stuttgart (HEFDiG) Read more: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

💃 Samba has danced its final dance and reentered the atmosphere at 23:39:38 CEST. The final signal from the spacecraft via Kourou was lost for the last time 13 minutes earlier. But, good news: the airborne observation campaign has reported success - stay tuned! blogs.esa.int/rocketscienc...

☀️💶 Just one big solar storm can cost Europe tens to hundreds of billions of euros according to the new socio-economic impact report published by the European Commission. Operational space weather services will make a critical difference. defence-industry-space.ec.europa.eu/study-impact...

LIFTOFF! 🚀 Ariane 6 #VA270, launching MTG-I2, completing Europe's Meteosat constellation.

Success! ✅ MTG-I2 is on its way to geostationary orbit. After acquiring signal, the satellite has been confirmed healthy. 🔗 esa.int/Newsroom/Press_Releases/MTG-I2_completes_Europe_s_latest_weather_trio

Mercury, here we go! ☀️🌑🛰️ Watch @esa.int / #JAXA #BepiColombo MTM separation live on 3 September and witness the first critical step in a never-before-seen planetary arrival. 💫 Click here for more info 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... @science.esa.int

🔥 Our Draco reentry mission will record its own fiery demise. How? Well, the answer involves a heat shield made of cork, a meticulously shaped capsule, zapping plasma through wind tunnels and parachute drop tests. Learn all about the mission's design challenges 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

💃☄️✨ It’s time for the final two dances: Samba and Tango are the last two Cluster satellites to go through their targeted reentries into the atmosphere and sparkle across the skies, next week on 31 Aug and 1 Sep blogs.esa.int/rocketscienc...

A high-velocity meteor that exploded high above the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina in April was detected by lightning imagers aboard European and US weather satellites. Their observations are helping to pin down its likely origin: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Maravilloso trabajo de la Comisión de Astronomía Cultural de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía en la que nos dan una aproximación preciosa a los eclipses en la historia y el arte. @sea-astronomia.bsky.social sea-mundoeclipses.es

Operating across 140 million km of space from ESOC's Interplanetary Control Room (left), ESA’s Hera mission team has upgraded the software running the spacecraft - leaving it ready to explore the distant Dimorphos and Didymos asteroids this autumn www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

We just published the results of a joint analysis with MTG and GOES lightning imager detections on the fast fireball on 1st April. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...

Torifune is about 450m across with a mass of 180 million tonnes; Kamo'oalewa is about 20m across with a mass of only 7000 tonnes.

Starting the Asteroids, Comets and Meteors conference in Poznan. Fantastic environment and great chance to meet with colleagues from all over the world.

¡Finalmente! El magnífico telescopio Vera Rubin inicia por fin su barrido de 10 años de los cielos para descubrir todo tipo de eventos transitorios en el cielo... y especialmente ¡descubrir centenares de miles de asteroides! rubinobservatory.org/es/news/acti...

Want to know about our Hera asteroid mission for🪨Asteroid Day, which is on its way to the 1st asteroid changed by human action? Watch our cartoon series, starting here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Happy #AsteroidDay! 🪨 But why today of all days? Find out here, along with eight other key dates in asteroid history! 👉 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1 flies past Earth on Saturday – great advertising for this weekend’s Asteroid Day festival! After a Friday evening astronomy session, Saturday's all day event includes astronauts, asteroid experts and mission engineers. Watch it live here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Faco...

The backbone of ESA's Ramses asteroid mission is now standing tall in its Bremen cleanroom. From here on in the mission is being developed as two halves in parallel, to ensure Ramses makes its spring 2028 launch deadline: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

🪨Asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1, as monitored by ESA's Planetary Defence team, makes a close approach to Earth this Saturday that could be visible to small telescopes 🔭 esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Save the date and join our Open Days 2026. 19 - 20 Sept. - ESA HQ, Paris 🇫🇷 25 Sept. - ESA ESRIN, Frascati 🇮🇹 26 - 27 Sept. - ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk 🇳🇱 2 Oct. - ESA ESOC, Darmstadt 🇩🇪 3 Oct. - ESA ESAC, Villanueva de la Cañada 🇪🇸 10 Oct. - ESA ECSAT, Harwell 🇬🇧 🔗 www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA...

Planetary defence is inherently international: at yesterday’s UNOOSA Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna, @esa.int, Italian space agency ASI & Japanese agency JAXA discussed their Ramses mission collaboration, meeting asteroid Apophis which passes Earth on Friday 13 April 2029

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Our astronaut Luca Parmitano is assigned as pilot of NASA’s #ArtemisIII mission. With Europe powering Orion with the European Service Module, this mission will test the critical operations preparing for humankind's return to the Moon. A strong step forward for ESA–NASA partnership. 📸 NASA

Muy agradecido a Ferrán Ferrando y Eva Soria por su amable invitación para hablar sobre eclipses en el Instituto Cervantes Frankfurt. ¡Lo pasamos estupendamente todos! @institutocervantes.bsky.social

Inmensamente agradecido a Pedro San Jose y a John Beckman por su amabilísima invitación a participar en las magníficas XIV Jornadas de Astronomía de Almería representando a la Oficina de Defensa Planetaria de la ESA. Ha sido todo un placer y un honor participar en ellas. youtu.be/GWdBIQcvTRY

Amigos de Málaga, estaré esta tarde.en la Fundación Unicaja para hablar de Defensa Planetaria en la ESA. Os invito a veniros. x.com/fundunicaja/...

Newly discovered asteroid 2026 JH2, monitored by ESA's Planetary Defence team, makes a notably close approach to Earth this evening (but with zero chance of impact!)

A los amigos de Málaga, estaré este próximo jueves 21 hablando de defensa planetaria en el Centro Cultural de la Fundación Unicaja. ¡Nos vemos allí! www.fundacionunicaja.com/event/ciclo-...

🎶 Fireballs and lightning… very, very exciting! Millions of lightning flashes light up Earth daily. But @eumetsat.int’s MTG-LI satellite is revealing fireball flashes in the data. @esa.int's graduate trainee Niels Rubbrecht is helping to find these bright needles in the lightning haystack. 🌠

🚨New article alert🚨From icy moons to icy interstellar objects! 💫 If you were wowed by @esa.int 's Juice images of 3I/ATLAS, you’ll be even more wowed when you learn how the mission team managed to pull off the unprecedented observation campaign. 🛰️ Read here 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

Ya falta menos para que tengamos al telescopio #Flyeye de la ESA instalado en su localización final en Sicilia. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

ESA is hiring! www.linkedin.com/pulse/esa-re...