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About ESA Operations, Engineering & Space Safety
ESA’s Operations Directorate is primarily based at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), with activities also taking place across the ESA sites. As Europe's centre of excellence for satellite operation, ESOC is home to the engineering teams that control spacecraft in orbit, manage our global tracking station network, and design and build the systems on the ground that support missions in space. It is also the home of ESA’s growing Space Safety programme: protecting lives and infrastructure in space and on Earth from hazards originating in space, such as asteroids, space debris and space weather. Since 1967, more than 80 satellites belonging to ESA and its partners have been successfully flown from the Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. Today, about two dozen satellites are flown from ESOC, with three more flown from ESA’s European Space Security and Education Centre at Redu, Belgium. These include ESA’s planetary, astronomy, exploration and space safety missions, ‘Earth Explorer’ Earth observation missions and technology demonstration missions. They also include the Sentinels, a fleet of spacecraft flown by ESA as part of Europe’s Copernicus programme – the world’s most ambitions Earth observation programme. Website For professionals - https://esoc.esa.int For public and media – https://www.esa.int
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Operations & Supply
ESA Operations, Engineering & Space Safety will launch Copernicus Sentinel-3C and FLEX on 15 September.
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Presence & Recognition
ESA Operations, Engineering & Space Safety is hosting a special re-watch event celebrating the dual launch of ESA’s FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellites at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany on 15 September 2026.
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Operations & Supply
ESA Operations, Engineering & Space Safety confirmed the first step of the BepiColombo mission's Mercury arrival with the successful separation of the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) on 3 September.
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Operations & Supply
ESA Operations, Engineering & Space Safety confirmed the successful separation of BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) from the spacecraft stack via ESA's Cebreros deep-space antenna.
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Operations & Supply
ESA Operations, Engineering & Space Safety announced that the BepiColombo mission begins its arrival at Mercury after nearly eight years and billions of kilometers through the inner Solar System.
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Presence & Recognition
ESA Operations, Engineering & Space Safety is hosting a live broadcast of the BepiColombo mission arriving at Mercury on 3 September.
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Research & Knowledge
ESA Operations, Engineering & Space Safety noted that the ROSIE-SAMBA/TANGO missions are a joint effort involving academic partners from University of Stuttgart (IRS/HEFDiG) and Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave (CUB)
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