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Active blogs presently maintained, although update frequency can vary.
Exploration blog
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Orion blog
News and updates on Europe’s Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft
Preparing for liftoff
Follow Earth observation launch campaigns
Proba-3 blog
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To Mars and back
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Rocket science
What’s happening at ESA’s Operations Centre
Campaign Earth
Reporting on ESA’s ground science campaigns
Chronicles from Concordia
Updates from the Concordia science research base
CAVES and Pangaea
News from the astronauts and the teams behind CAVES – ESA’s underground training course
Mars Express blog
Interplanetary science from the Red Planet
VMC – the Mars Webcam
An ordinary camera in an extraordinary place!
Clean Space blog
Follow the ESA Clean Space team – because the clean way is the right way
Archived blogs
10 years since Rosetta
Rosetta blog
Follow ESA’s mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Alexander Gerst’s blog
Follow ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst’s Horizons mission to the International Space Station
Thomas Pesquet’s Proxima
Covering ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s Proxima mission on the International Space Station
Luca Parmitano’s blog
Follow ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano’s Beyond mission to the International Space Station
Tim Peake’s Principia
Covering ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia mission on the International Space Station
Vita mission
Covering ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli’s Vita mission on the International Space Station
iriss
Covering everything on the 10-day ‘iriss’ mission to the Space Station
ATV blog
Reporting on ATV missions to the ISS
Johann-Dietrich Woerner
Follow Jan Woerner, Director General of ESA
Space19+
Art and science
News and updates about our art-science initiatives
SocialSpace blog
Reporting on European SocialSpace events
Spaceport
Activities at Europe’s Spaceport (also known as Guiana Space Centre or CSG), in Kourou, French Guiana
Ariane 6
News and updates about Ariane 6
Open Access
Open Access policy for ESA’s information and data
ESA Communication blog
Updates and background info on particular activities of the ESA Communication Department
CryoSat ice blog
Reporting on the ground expeditions supporting CryoSat
ISS Symposium 2012
Covering the symposium from Berlin, 2-4 May 2012
PromISSe blog
Reporting on André Kuipers’ PromISSe mission to the ISS on Expedition 30/31, December 2011 to June 2012
André Kuipers logboek
André Kuipers’ logbook during his mission to the ISS on Expedition 30/31, December 2011 to June 2012 (in Dutch & English)
Astronauts’ blog
Updates from the Class of 2009 astronauts (keyword: #shenanigans)
Gaia blog
Launch campaign for ESA’s billion-star surveyor mission
Raumzeit Podcast
Space podcast series produced in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center (in German)
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