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The space agency ESA is stepping up its IT security efforts. To this end, it has now opened the Cyber Security Operations Center. ESA has divided the C-SOC into two locations: Once at the European ...

The near-term plan for the European Launcher Challenge is for ESA to select companies for service contracts to transport ESA and other European government payloads to orbit from 2026 through 2030.

As the new Biomass satellite settles into life in orbit following its launch on April 29, ESA has released its most extensive satellite-based maps of above-ground forest carbon to date.

"This chain reaction can make certain orbits become unsafe and unusable over time as debris continues to collide and fragment again and again, creating a cascading effect," the ESA says in a summary.