{"id":802762,"date":"2026-06-23T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802762"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:39:30","slug":"esa-open-days-2026-are-coming-mark-your-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802762","title":{"rendered":"ESA Open Days 2026 are coming: mark your calendar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n\t<span class=\"pillar article__item\">Agency<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>22\/06\/2026<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><span id=\"viewcount\">1411<\/span><small> views<\/small><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span><span id=\"ezsr_total_27339255\">21<\/span><small> likes<\/small><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The ESA Open Days season is almost here and our teams across our establishments in Europe are already gearing up, preparing to give thousands of visitors a truly special experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"article__image\"><figcaption class=\"image__caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tESA Open Days 2026<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our Open Days are not just about space. They&#8217;re about people \u2014 the ones who make it happen, and the ones who come to be inspired. From the very first Open Day \u2014 held at ESTEC in the Netherlands in 1970 &#8211; to last year&#8217;s landmark edition celebrating 50 years of ESA, these events have grown into a moment for European citizens to come together, explore and be inspired by the power of space. And this year\u2019s edition will not be different.<\/p>\n<p>Our main establishments in Europe will each offer something unique, reflecting the full breadth of what the European Space Agency does:<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>19 &#8211; 20 September \u2013 ESA Headquarters, Paris, France<\/b><br \/>Step inside ESA&#8217;s beating heart, join an interactive Council simulation and discover the missions and decisions shaping Europe&#8217;s future in space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>25 September \u2013 ESA ESRIN, Frascati, Italy<\/b><br \/>Explore how ESA&#8217;s Earth observation missions watch over our planet and bring real, measurable benefits to everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>26 &#8211; 27 September \u2013 ESA ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands<\/b><br \/>Visit ESA&#8217;s largest establishment and meet the engineers and scientists turning bold ideas into tomorrow&#8217;s technology.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>2 October \u2013 ESA ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany<\/b><br \/>Go behind the scenes at Europe&#8217;s mission control centre and see how our teams guide spacecraft across the Solar System and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>3 October \u2013 ESA ESAC, Villanueva de la Ca\u00f1ada, Spain<\/b><br \/>Join our astronomers as they unravel the mysteries of black holes, exoplanets and the far reaches of the Universe.<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>10 October \u2013 ESA ECSAT, Harwell Campus, United Kingdom<\/b><br \/>\u00a0Find out how satellite telecommunications and integrated applications power the technologies we rely on every day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"heading\">Gather your family and friends and get ready for an extraordinary experience!  <\/h2>\n<p>More details \u2014 including registration links and planned activities \u2014 will be published in the coming weeks.\u00a0 Follow our social media and visit our ESA Open Days 2026 page for all the latest news.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><button id=\"ezsr_27339255_14_5\" class=\"btn ezsr-star-rating-enabled\" title=\"Like\">Like<\/button><\/p>\n<p id=\"ezsr_just_rated_27339255\" class=\"ezsr-just-rated hide\">Thank you for liking<\/p>\n<p id=\"ezsr_has_rated_27339255\" class=\"ezsr-has-rated hide\">You have already liked this page, you can only like it once!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESA_Open_Days\/ESA_Open_Days_2026\/ESA_Open_Days_2026_are_coming_mark_your_calendar?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency 22\/06\/2026 1411 views 21 likes The ESA Open Days season is almost here and our teams across our establishments in Europe are already gearing up, preparing to give thousands&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":802763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/802763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}