{"id":803194,"date":"2026-07-31T06:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803194"},"modified":"2026-07-31T06:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:32:31","slug":"this-month-at-esa-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803194","title":{"rendered":"This Month at ESA: July 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>What did space have in store for Europe this July?<\/p>\n<p>The Artemis II crew visited ESA\u2019s technical center in the Netherlands to meet the team behind Orion\u2019s European Service Module, celebrating the colaboration that powered their trip around the Moon. Meanwhile, ESA\u2019s Hera successfully upgraded it\u2019s software fom 140 milliom km away, in preperation for it\u2019s investigation of Dydimos and Dimorphos later this year.<\/p>\n<p>July also saw FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C head to Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana in preperation for their launch this September. Then, the James Webb Space Telescope celebrates four years of sciency with a spectacular new view of the galaxy Centaurus A.<\/p>\n<p>400 km above Earth, Sophie Adenot inaugurated the European Enhanced Exercise Device with rowing, rope-pulling, strength training and more. She also showed us the ISS veggie chamber, and how the space seedlings have been growing. From the cupola, Sophie captured her most impressive footage of Earth\u2019s auroras yet.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s your monthly roundup of everything happening at the European Space Agency.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What happened this month at European Space Agency (July 2026)\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NuBIAAG6MTM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2026\/07\/This_Month_at_ESA_July_2026?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did space have in store for Europe this July? The Artemis II crew visited ESA\u2019s technical center in the Netherlands to meet the team behind Orion\u2019s European Service Module,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":803195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803194","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\/803194","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=803194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/803195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}