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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...

An interesting connection between Earth Observation and NEO monitoring activities has been unveiled through the NEO Coordination Centre participation at the "Big Data From Space" meeting, held at...

ESA and national disaster response offices recently rehearsed how to react if a threatening space rock is ever discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Last month, experts from ESA's...

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...

Directly the PDO manager Richard Moissl Head of the Planetary Defence Office Space Safety Programme ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy richard.moissl[@]esa.int  

  The Image Archive search form allows to explore and find images collected during dedicated observation campaigns. The search filter is based on:   Observatory. IAU code and name of the...

  The table in this page contains information about objects that were in the Risk List and were subsequently removed, because no virtual impactors within the next 100 years were found after a given...