Astronomie
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Cosmic Vision : Euclid space telescope / Euclides
Euclid is a visible to near-infrared space telescope developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Euclid Consortium, the objective of the Euclid mission is to better understand dark energy and dark matter by accurately measuring the acceleration of the universe.
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Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem
Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) is a NASA Earth-observing satellite mission that will continue and advance observations of global ocean color, biogeochemistry, and ecology, as well as the carbon cycle, aerosols and clouds.
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GOES-19
GOES-19 (designated GOES-U prior to reaching geostationary orbit) is a weather satellite, the fourth and last of the GOES-R series of satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Proba-3 Missie / Proba-3 Mission
Proba-3 zijn twee minisatellieten van de Europese Ruimtevaartorganisatie (ESA), ze zullen samen gelanceerd worden in een langgerekte ellipsvormige baan met een perigeum van 600 km en apogeum van 60.000 km.
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Hera space mission
Hera is a space mission in development at the European Space Agency in its Space Safety program, its primary objective is to study the Didymos binary asteroid system that was impacted by DART and contribute to validation of the kinetic impact method to deviate a near-Earth asteroid in a colliding trajectory with Earth.
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NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission
Europa Clipper (previously known as Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) is a space probe in development by NASA. Planned for launch in October 2024, the spacecraft is being developed to study the Galilean moon Europa through a series of flybys while in orbit around Jupiter, it is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission.
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Save the Observatory Science Centre Herstmonceux – petition
The Observatory Science Centre is an educational charity which has called the Grade II listed, former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux, East Sussex, home for the last 30 years.
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Biomass : ESA’s forest mission
Biomass is an Earth observing satellite planned for launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) on 29 April 2025 from Kourou, French Guiana on a Vega C launch vehicle, the mission will provide the first comprehensive measurements of global forest biomass.
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory in Chile, its main task will be carrying out a synoptic astronomical survey, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time.
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ESCAPADE mission to Mars
Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) is a planned spacecraft mission to Mars consisting of two spacecraft known as Blue and Gold, the mission is led by UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory.
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#GAM2026 Global Astronomy Month 2026
Inspired by the 100 hours of astronomy, this annual offshoot began upon the inception of Astronomers Without Borders and remains one of its flagship programs.
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#HumanSpaceFlightDay / Dag van de Ruimtevaart 2026
The UN General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/65/271 of 7 April 2011, declared 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight “to celebrate each year at the international level the beginning of the space era for mankind, reaffirming the important contribution of space science and technology in achieving sustainable development goals and increasing the well-being of States and peoples, as well as ensuring the realization of their aspiration to maintain outer space for peaceful purposes.”

