The morning briefings, hosted by Niamh Shaw, are designed to give you a quick, interactive overview of the day ahead, including key scientific highlights and any important updates from the organizing team. Whether you're a researcher, student, or member of the media, the briefing will help you navigate the program and make the most of your time at the congress.

The morning briefings, hosted by Niamh Shaw, are designed to give you a quick, interactive overview of the day ahead, including key scientific highlights and any important updates from the organizing team. Whether you're a researcher, student, or member of the media, the briefing will help you navigate the program and make the most of your time at the congress.

The morning briefings, hosted by Niamh Shaw, are designed to give you a quick, interactive overview of the day ahead, including key scientific highlights and any important updates from the organizing team. Whether you're a researcher, student, or member of the media, the briefing will help you navigate the program and make the most of your time at the congress.

The morning briefings, hosted by Niamh Shaw, are designed to give you a quick, interactive overview of the day ahead, including key scientific highlights and any important updates from the organizing team. Whether you're a researcher, student, or member of the media, the briefing will help you navigate the program and make the most of your time at the congress.

The morning briefings, hosted by Niamh Shaw, are designed to give you a quick, interactive overview of the day ahead, including key scientific highlights and any important updates from the organizing team. Whether you're a researcher, student, or member of the media, the briefing will help you navigate the program and make the most of your time at the congress.

In November 2026, ESA’s Hera mission will arrive at the Didymos binary asteroid system to make a detailed survey of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, which was impacted by NASA’s DART mission in September 2022.

During this press briefing, along with giving updates on the status and plans for the mission post-arrival, the Hera team will unveil a revolutionary way for the public to engage with the mission and become part of its space adventure.

There will also be updates on the ESA/JAXA RAMSES mission, which will rendezvous with asteroid (99942) Apophis and accompany it on its flyby of Earth on 13 April 2029.

Speakers:
Michael Küppers, ESA Hera Project Scientist, ESA-ESAC, Spain
Patrick Michel, Hera Mission Principal Investigator, RAMSES ESA Project Scientist and Director of Research at CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France.
Heli Greus, Hera and RAMSES ESA project teams.

Registration link for virtual participation:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KF7ZPLPJQQ23lY6K8S3CTA

After an eight-year journey, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission will arrive at Mercury this autumn. Separation of the European and Japanese orbiters from the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) will take place on 3 September, followed by orbit insertion on 21 November, and the separation of the ESA Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA Mio spacecraft on 9–10 December. From that moment on, BepiColombo will be officially the first two-spacecraft mission at Mercury. The science phase of the mission will begin in April 2027.

This press briefing will give an update on the status of the spacecraft following MTM separation, and provide an overview of the next steps during this exciting time in the BepiColombo mission.

Speakers:
Santa Martinez, Mission Manager
Ignacio Tanco, Head, Inner Solar System Missions Unit
Geraint Jones, Lead ESA Project Scientist
Go Murakami, JAXA Project Scientist.

Registration link for virtual participation:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yyTOWJ1NQvO6LziR2u_3-w