European Space Agency

The sun and moon are aligned, pulling together on Earth's oceans.

The European Space Agency acknowledges Ariane 6 delays following reports of turbopump issue.

The European Space Agency has confirmed that it is aware of delays affecting the Ariane 6 launch schedule, following reports of an engine turbopump anomaly.

There is plenty of activity on the sun right now.

Multiple sunspot regions are crackling with energy, and solar flares could fire off at any time.

So this one's over in space and comes from ESA.int.

The European Space Agency put out an explainer video about a mission called FLEX, the Fluorescence Explorer.

And then the next night, they launched it.

FLEX went up September 15th on a Vega-C rocket out of Kourou in French Guiana.

You know, I think it's in year four now of a 10-year mission, but there's extension plans there as well.

There's other, the European Space Agency, Hasgeia, and others.

There's a lot of different space telescopes.

And then on the ground, we've got Vera Rubin, you know, a lot of world-class instruments, Keck and Gemini and so on.

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So European Space Agency signed a deal with ISRO, Indian Space Research Organization, a Chinese exchange of letters, extending their longstanding cooperative agreement for a further five years.

reaffirming their commitment to expanding cooperation in space.

They had to push for something because basically NASA offered them H-1Bs on the moon.

So, you know, talking about energy, et cetera.

But are we seeing things like ESA picking up the slack or anything like that?

So yeah, the Swift rescue mission is very sad, but the odds of it actually working were always slim, I think.

So the Swift rescue mission is the Neil Gill's Swift Observatory.

So the human side.

But...

The thing with ESA is ESA always does very good science missions.

So it's like if ESA is going to do a science mission, it will be excellent.

We have Hoshino this week.

We have the ESA and the Pokemon Company with a new costume Pikachu.

Pokemon is bringing the Halloween stuff back, even though it skipped it last year, but it's way scaled down

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When we come back, we're going to talk about how Pikachu went to space.

So we will be right back.

ESA and the Pokemon Company International reveal Europe-wide expedition and astronaut Pikachu experience.

Not to be confused with the astronaut Pikachu at Worlds.

To really map the liquid tops of clouds around the world, they need a clear view from space.

In May 2024, the European Space Agency, or ESA, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, launched EarthCare, a satellite called Hakuryu, to provide this global perspective.

EarthCare marks a new era of cloud observation with four instruments operating simultaneously.

The Cloud Profiling Radar, CPR, penetrates deeply into the cloud column to detect snow and rain.

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I remember when I was doing some work with the European Space Agency.

So I was training astronauts using mixed reality from Microsoft technology.

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