May 2023 Newsletter

ESA’s expanding observational network forms the first pillar of its programme for planetary defence. Thanks to a number of telescopes either directly owned, funded or in scientific agreement with...

The Schmidt telescope of the Centro Astronómico Hispano en Andalucía (CAHA Schmidt) was first installed in 1955 at the Hamburg Observatory in Germany, and subsequently moved to the Calar Alto...

ESA's Test Bed Telescopes (TBT) are two twin telescopes built by ESA to test different observational activities in the optical detection of NEO’s and satellites or space debris. The two telescopes...

ESA's Optical Ground Station (OGS) is a facility built by ESA to support tests of optical communication between Earth and orbiting satellites. The instrument is routinely used by ESA's Space Safety...

The May monthly update is still ongoing. Some objects, may be temporarily unavailable.

Additional information

Warning: on April 13th at 09:00 UTC, some maintenance activities will be performed on our system. Some services may be temporarily unavailable.  

April 2023 Newsletter

Asteroid 2023 DZ2

March 2023 Newsletter

Warning: on March 6th at 09:00 UTC, some maintenance activities will be performed on our system. Some services, may be temporarily disrupted or unavailable.  

Warning: on March 2nd at 09:00 UTC, some maintenance activities will be performed on our system. Some services, including the ephemeris and APIs, may be temporarily disrupted or unavailable.  

Warning. Due to some maintenance activities, some tools and services may not be available.

Summary 2023 CX1 was the seventh object to be detected before impacting the Earth. The meteoroid was discovered at Konkoly Observatory (Hungary) on 12 February 2023 and impacted the atmosphere over...

The atmospheric impact of this 1-metre object has been observed as a fireball from UK, France, Belgium and the Netherlands