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ESA is offering the opportunity for payloads to ride on board the first return flight, and future flights, to low orbit of its reusable Space Rider. Applications should reach ESA by 30 November.

The world will be watching the milestone launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, DART, spacecraft on Wednesday, 24 November, intended to alter one small part of the Solar System forever.

As an entity representing Romania within the European Space Agency (ESA) and fully integrated into international level elite organizations, the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) plays an active part in supporting national competitiveness in an economic sector that now globally sums up about $ 400 billion annually.

Juventas, the smallest radar system to be flown in space, hosted aboard a breadbox-sized spacecraft and made with a significant Romanian contribution, was recently tested at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands.

On the morning of 15 November 2021, a fragmentation of the COSMOS 1408 satellite (Cospar ID 1982-092A) occurred and the Romanian Space Agency's SST Operational Center (COSST) started to monitor the event.