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ESA’s ruling Council, meeting in Paris on 16-17 March, assessed the situation arising from the war in Ukraine regarding ExoMars, and unanimously acknowledged the present impossibility of carrying out the ongoing cooperation with Roscosmos on the ExoMars rover mission with a launch in 2022, and mandated the ESA Director General to take appropriate steps to suspend the cooperation activities accordingly.

On 18 February, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope was photographed by ESA’s Gaia observatory, a mission where Romania contributes as well.

The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft is speeding towards its historic first close pass of the Sun. Today, 14 March, the spacecraft passes the orbit of Mercury and on 26 March it will reach closest approach to the Sun.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites you to submit proposals for ESA’s navigation-focused NAVISP research programme. The deadline for this year’s workplan is 31 March 2022.

For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-metre asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon’s attempt to scupper observations, the asteroid is now known to be entirely safe.