ESA invites you to celebrate Shaun the Sheep's return from the Artemis I lunar mission as he herds off on his post-flight tour. ESA's Director of Human and Robotic Exploration David Parker will formally congratulate Shaun before he visits space centres across Europe.

In the heart of the 15th arrondissement and after 5 years of intensive refurbishment works, the Headquarters of the European Space Agency (ESA) are once again ready to welcome ESA staff and representatives from the Agency's 22 Member States.

The Independent Inquiry Commission tasked with analysing the loss of the Vega-C Flight VV22 mission, will share its findings on Friday 3 March 2023 at ESA's Headquarters in Paris.

Journalists are cordially invited to view Euclid, ESA's ambitious mission to explore the dark Universe, in Cannes, France, on 21 February 2023. Media will be given the rare opportunity to see the spacecraft in the cleanroom of Thales Alenia Space (TAS), prior to shipment for its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA in July 2023.

Editor's Note: This media invitation was updated to include the new registration deadline (Thursday 2 February). Media representatives are invited to join a pre-launch press programme on 8-9 March at Europe's spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, to see ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (Juice) being prepared for launch.

The 15 European Space Conference will be hosted in Brussels, Belgium, from Tuesday to Wednesday, 24-25 January 2023, at the Palais Egmont (P lace du Petit Sablon 8, Brussels 1000 ). This year's edition of the European Space Conference, organised by Business Bridge Europe, will focus on Securing the Future of Europe in Space.

Arianespace announced early today the failure of Flight VV22 carrying Pléiades Neo 5 and 6 satellites.

The ESA Council met today in its 314th session and took some important decisions regarding the Executive's senior management. ESA's 22 Member States approved the Director General's proposal to appoint a new Director of Science (D/SCI) and a new Director for Technology, Engineering and Quality (D/TEC).

The ESA Council will hold its 315th session on 22 and 23 March 2023 in the freshly renovated ESA HQ Nikis building in Paris. After a successful Council Meeting at Ministerial Level in 2022 (CM22), further transformation measures and ambitious, new ideas for space exploration will be shared with the media.

ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (Juice) will launch from Europe's Spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana on Thursday 13 April 2023. Journalists interested in covering the launch from French Guiana are invited to express their interest in joining the launch media programme by Monday 13 March 2023.

The Independent Inquiry Commission tasked with analysing the loss of the Vega-C Flight VV22 mission, will share its findings on Friday 3 March 2023 at ESA's Headquarters in Paris.

After the success of the Artemis I mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus cordially invite you to a media event at Airbus in Bremen, Germany, where the Orion European Service Module (ESM) is built.

Media representatives are invited to join a pre-launch press programme on 8-9 March at Europe's spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana, to see ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (Juice) being prepared for launch.

We're inviting media to join our start-of-year press briefing looking ahead at 2023. ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Directors will meet the media in Paris on 23 January 2023. After the successful Ministerial Council in November 2022, Josef Aschbacher will present the next important steps of agenda 2025, with a specific focus on 2023.

Media are invited to visit ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, at Airbus in Toulouse, France on 20 January 2023, prior to shipment to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for its April launch on an Ariane 5.

The Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite, set to revolutionise short-term weather forecasting in Europe, lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket at 21:30 CET (17:30 local time in Kourou) on 13 December from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.