T he European Space Agency (ESA) has officially launched a new phase in its planetary defense program with the activation of the Flyeye telescope.According to ESA’s announcement, 2025, this ...

Observations of asteroid (139289) 2001 KR1 made using ESA’s Flyeye telescope. These images were acquired on 21 May 2025 during the telescope’s ‘first light’ campaign.

ESA will finish installing the first FlyEye telescope on Mount Mufara in Sicily in 2020. The plan is to build four total telescopes that could detect anything larger than 40 meters in diameter at ...

The Flyeye telescope, developed by ESA, has begun operations, featuring a compound-eye-inspired design that enables it to survey a sky area over 200 times larger than the full moon in a single ...

The Europeans are already working on the second telescope of the network, Flyeye-2, and this one should be ready for operations by 2028. It's unclear when the other two will be complete, ...

An illustration shows how the European Space Agency's "Flyeye" telescope would see asteroids before they reach earth. ESA/A. Baker. This telescope will put 16 smaller images together, each facing ...

These images were acquired on 21 May, during the telescope’s ‘first light’ campaign. 2025 KQ was first discovered just two days earlier on 19 May by the Mt. Lemmon Survey observatory. These images ...

The ESA says Flyeye’s observation schedule will consider factors like Moon brightness and where other asteroid hunters like NASA-funded ATLAS telescopes are scanning the skies.. ESA's Ernesto ...

Flyeye is a multiple-optics telescope with a very wide field of view that will be capable of classifying objects in space as small as 15 cm in LEO and 35 cm in MEO. The 6.5 m high and 4 m wide ...

Observations of asteroid (139289) 2001 KR1 made using ESA’s Flyeye telescope. These images were acquired on 21 May 2025 during the telescope’s ‘first light’ campaign. This animation was ...