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The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT (04:45:28 local time in Romania), on 20 October on its exciting mission to study the mysteries of the Solar System’s innermost planet.

World Space Week, the largest public event in the world dedicated to the celebration of space, takes place between 4 and 10 October.

On 26 September, Ariane 5 had its milestone 100th launch, delivering the Horizons-3e and Azerspace-2/Intelsat-38 telecom satellites into their planned orbits.

Four more Galileo satellites were launched by an Ariane 5 on 25 July. Their arrival in orbit brings the Galileo constellation to 26 satellites, extending the global coverage of the constellation.

On 22-24 January 2019, the European Space Agency (ESA) is organising the NEO and Debris Detection Conferenceat the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany. Abstracts can be submittedfrom 3 September until 1 October 2018.