Sean Blair

Today at #ESTEC in 🇳🇱 we celebrate 30 years of ESA Navigation activities, which resulted in the world's most accurate satellite navigation system, Galileo - one of our 50 hallmark achievements in our 50 year anniversary! www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA...

An agency is defined by taking action - so what has the European Space Agency been up to during its first 50 years? Find out in our new brochure: esa.int/About_Us/ESA...

In the upper left corner of a Jack Kirby panel is a quote: “That is the great thing about our movement – – that these members are uniform not only in ideas, but, even the facial expression is almost the same!“ – – ADOLF HITLER.” The panel is filled with white adults of all ages, their eyes, white and blank as they face the reader. One person says, “Yes, sir! It’s the TRUTH! GLORIOUS GODFREY is the TRUTH!” Another person says, “He’s VOICING what’s in our hearts!“ A third person says, “TELL IT, Godfrey! Tell us how our PRIDE is being ATTACKED, and all DRAGGED in the dust! A fourth person says, “It’s the OTHERS, Godfrey! Those who DON’T think right!” And the final person says, “This is OUR world! OUR world! They have NO right to MEDDLE with it!“

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

“America Open Your Eyes!”, 1941, by Jean Carlu.

As Europe's Hera asteroid mission flew past planet Mars on 12 March it autonomously locked onto dozens of impact craters and other prominent features, tracking them over time, to test the self-driving technology Hera will employ to navigate around its target asteroids:
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Hera science team see image returned from Mars

Our Hera spacecraft science team, including Dr Brian May of Queen, were amazed as the first images came in from the spacecraft's gravity-assist flyby of Mars and martian moon Deimos - see why here: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

🔴 Our #HeraMission just flew by Mars, using the planet’s gravity to speed up towards its target asteroids. Wondering what it was like for the mission engineers to assemble Hera? Make one with LEGO 🧱 – choose your favourite model and get building! 🔨 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Sir Brian May & Prof. Patrick Michel await Hera images

Our Hera science team are busy processing images returned from today’s Mars flyby – including astrophysicist, stereoscopist & guitarist Sir Brian May, seen with Principal Investigator Prof Patrick Michel. Images to come in tomorrow's livestream at 11:50 CET (10:50 GMT): www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

As Hera flies by Mars today, it cannot return the images it acquires directly, because it needs to rotate its antenna back to Earth to do that. If you want to see what it is doing second by second from 1245 CET, check the real-life simulation we will soon start here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KILq...

Our real-time simulation of Hera’s flyby around Mars starts now: youtu.be/KILqbZon5EY?...

Distant view of Mars with north pole

This is #HeraMission's view of Mars acquired yesterday, at 1.07 million km from the red planet, hurtling towards it at 9 km/s. The north pole and other features clearly visible - closest approach comes at 13:51 CET today, images unveiled tomorrow! www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

Infographic showing Hera imaging Deimos

As our Hera asteroid mission flies by Mars tomorrow, it will image Deimos - the smaller and more enigmatic of the two martian Moons - from as close as 1000 km away. The results will be unveiled at our livestream on Thursday!
www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Did you know our #HeraMission - about to fly around 🔴Mars - has its own AI 🤖 ready to chat with anybody? Developed by Terra Mater Studios (part of @redbull.com), implemented by Impact AI & backed by @microsoft.com, learn all about the Hera Space Companion: news.microsoft.com/source/emea/...

📽️After five months in the darkness between planets, #HeraMission flies past Mars TOMORROW - while imaging the surface and the enigmatic moon Deimos, as a try-out of its instruments before reaching the Didymos binary. Then, this Thursday, see these images unveiled live! www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

poster on a utility pole with a gray silhouette of a threatening figure, arms raised wearing a maga cap with a shadow of a similar figure wearing a nazi helmet behind them and the words WE BEAT 'EM BEFORE … WE’LL BEAT 'EM AGAIN!

seen in newark, new jersey

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer:

We stand with #Ukraine for as long as it may take, and I hope you heard that cheering in the street - the people of the United Kingdom coming out to demonstrate how much they support you and Ukraine,and our absolute,unwavering determination to stand with you ⤵️ 1/2

Tweet: "Have you said thank you once?" -@VP JD Vance - pic of jd Vance looking oddly symmetrical. Why are his pants so tight?

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

Q: Which dystopian nightmare movie is this from?

A: Reality.

Hera VR app displayed

Got a VR headset for Christmas? Try travelling through space with our Hera asteroid mission - download DIVE's *free* Guardians of Earth app for anyone with Apple Vision Pro or Meta Quest 3 or 3S VR glasses www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Proba-3 Startracker view

Proba-3 startracker view including Earth

As Proba-3 undergoes commissioning, its startrackers
(cameras linked to constellation-spotting computers) track the orientation of the slowly-spinning spacecraft. Here’s a peek at their first images, including a photobomb from planet Earth!
www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

Proba-3 infographic showing two spacecraft in formation with the Sun

Turn your finger sideways and look at the thickness of your nail - then imagine steering spacecraft to that level of precision. Writing up ESA's double-spacecraft Proba-3 mission 👉https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Eclipse-maker_How_Proba-3_subtracts_the_Sun