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  • Our new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky! ☄️

    Our new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky! ☄️

    Meet Flyeye — the telescope that sees space like a fly! 🪰

    With its very first glimpse of the sky, Flyeye is ready to begin scanning for asteroids that might one day come a little too close to Earth.

    Inspired by the compound eye of a fly, it can spot a huge chunk of sky in one go — more than 200 times the area of the full Moon. And it’s designed to do it all automatically, night after night.

    It hasn’t found any space rocks yet, but it’s only just opened its eye. This is the first step towards a future network of fly-eyed telescopes keeping watch over our planet.

    Not bad for a bug-inspired bit of space tech.

    📹 European Space Agency (ESA)
    📸 ESA/A. Baker

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  • Euclid completes thermal vacuum testing

    Euclid completes thermal vacuum testing

    At the Thales Alenia Space test facility in Cannes, France, the massive door of the thermal vacuum chamber was opened after a month of rigorous testing of ESA’s Euclid mission to explore the dark Universe. In Cannes the fully integrated spacecraft was subjected to the conditions of space and its subsystems were fully tested for the first time. With the Euclid space telescope, scientists hope to learn more about dark matter and dark energy which could make up more than 95% of our Universe.

    The film includes soundbites from ESA Euclid Mission and Payload Manager: Alexander Short and ESA Euclid VIS-Instrument Engineer: Magdalena Szafraniec.

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