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Week in images: 07-11 July 2025

Week in images: 07-11 July 2025

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Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away, using two optical grounds stations developed for this purpose in Greece.

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Earth from Space: Lake District, UK

Image: The varied landscape of England’s Lake District is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

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Webb scratches under Cat’s Paw Nebula for third anniversary

To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch beyond the surface of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), a massive, local star-forming region.

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Closing the loop: new Space Rider drop test

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European Launcher Challenge: preselected challengers unveiled

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Week in images: 30 June - 4 July 2025

Week in images: 30 June - 4 July 2025

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Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes

Using data from ESA’s SMOS satellite, scientists have revealed a surprising shift in the Southern Ocean – surface waters around Antarctica are growing saltier, even as sea ice is diminishing rapidly. This finding defies the norm because melting ice typically freshens ocean surface water.

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Earth from Space: Zanzibar, Tanzania

Image: Earth from Space: Zanzibar, Tanzania

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ESA tracks rare interstellar comet

Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a rare celestial visitor: a comet from beyond our Solar System.

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A pinch of France in space

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot selected the French chef Anne-Sophie Pic to develop the bonus food she will bring to the International Space Station during her mission εpsilon.

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MTG-S1 and Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission highlights

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Two meteorological missions – Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission – have launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.

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Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS

Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting away the planet’s wispy atmosphere, causing it to shrink every year.

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MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch to change how we see our atmosphere

The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission lifted off at 23:04 CEST on Tuesday, 1 July. The satellite is now on its way to monitor Earth’s atmosphere from an altitude of 36 000 km. From this geostationary orbit, the missions can provide game-changing data for forecasting severe storms and air pollution over Europe.

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MTG-S1 and Copernicus Sentinel-4 launch highlights

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Two meteorological missions – Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission – have launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.

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Southern Europe’s land and sea sizzles

Image: A powerful heatwave has been gripping large parts of southern Europe. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission’s Sea and Land Surface Temperature Radiometer on 29 June 2025, reveals the temperature of the land surface.

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MTG-S1 satellite hosting the Sentinel-4 instrument is ready for liftoff

The Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite, which is hosting the instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, has been placed inside the nose cone of the Falcon 9 launch rocket and is ready for the scheduled liftoff at 23:03 CEST on Tuesday, 1 July.

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Webb spots a starburst shining in infrared

Image: A starburst shines in infrared (MIRI)

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Plato’s eyes meet brain

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On 11 June, engineers at OHB’s facilities in Germany joined together the two main parts of ESA’s Plato mission

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A new adventure on the International Space Station

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Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA head of Space and Robotic Exploration, explains that Ignis mission will include an ambitious technological and scientific programme with several experiments led by ESA and proposed by the Polish space industry.

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Week in images: 23-27 June 2025

Week in images: 23-27 June 2025

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