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At Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, a test model of the Ariane 6’s central core has been assembled for the first time. Ariane 6 is the first Ariane rocket to be assembled horizontally, which is simpler and less costly than more traditional vertical assembly.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites representatives of industries from Romania to attend the TRUTHS Industry Day, which will take place at Airbus Defence and Space, Stevenage, United Kingdom and online on Tuesday, 11 October 2022, starting at 09:30 (11:30 Romania local time).

On 27 September, 2:14 Romania local time, NASA's DART component of the international AIDA mission was confirmed to have intentionally collided with the smallest asteroid in the Didymos binary system. ESA will send its own mission to the two asteroids. The Hera mission, in which Romania is involved, will observe what happened after the impact.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) wishes "Happy Birthday" to the only Romanian cosmonaut, Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, one of the few people who made the dream of going to space come true.

On 26 September, a spacecraft will hit an asteroid in a controlled manner, in the first international effort to deviate an asteroid from its trajectory, to test humanity’s ability to protect itself from asteroids using this method. Romania is one of the actors contributing to the European component of the mission.