Material matters👷 🔹 Science & exploration Bacterial contamination is a thing. Microorganisms create protective slime clusters known as biofilms, even in places like the International Space Station. To develop surfaces that can reduce bacterial contamination, experiments are being conducted to understand how gravity affects the biofilms.🧫 🙂 This would benefit astronauts and people on Earth alike. 🌍 Learn more Ta…

Channel
ESA - European Space Agency
@EuropeanSpaceAgency
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Posts · Cite this entry
272subscribers
-3 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001196019393 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @EuropeanSpaceAgency |
| Created | 31 May 2020 — measured — dated from the channel’s first post |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 28 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 2 times, most recently 28 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/EuropeanSpaceAgency |
Topic
Science — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 23 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and the other topics.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2026, 18:27 | 272 | -3 |
| 9 Oct 2026, 15:36 | 275 | -4 |
| 29 Sept 2026, 13:37 | 279 | +1 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 18:19 | 278 | +3 |
| 28 Aug 2026, 18:38 | 275 | -1 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 23:17 | 276 | +1 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 23:32 | 275 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 18:45 | 275 | first reading |
Engagement
14 posts held, back to 31 May 2020 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 14 posts for this entry, the most recent from 8 October 2023. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
Shadow hunters capture Didymos asteroid eclipsing stars 🌚 🔹 Enabling & Support Astronomers have succeeded in capturing the momentary shadow cast by the Didymos asteroid. 🪨 An event that has required a lot of effort in placing observers in the right spots and knowledge to calculate and predict positions and trajectories with extreme precision. 📐 Stellar occultations are an extraordinary tool to obtain information on…
📸 Look at this image of the Sun. It is shown in unprecedented detail thanks to Solar Orbiter, the most complex scientific laboratory ever to have been sent to the Sun. 🔹 Science & Exploration The image has a resolution that is ten times better than what a 4K TV screen can display.🏅 Solar Orbiter was at a distance of roughly 75 million kilometres at the time it took the pictures. ☀️↔️🌍 Such a high spatial resolutio…
Working towards a Digital Twin of Earth 💻🌍 🔹 Application Digital Twin Earth (DTE) is an interactive digital replica of our planet, based on the combination of Earth observation data, in situ measurements and artificial intelligence. The model will help visualise and forecast natural and human activity on the planet. 📊 It’s important to work on this project, since in the coming decades population growth and human …
Space Debris 🌌 🔹 Safety & Security 🗓 On 20 April 2021, ESA will host the 8th European Conference on Space Debris from Darmstadt, in Germany, where the latest issues surrounding space debris will be discussed. 🗣 📽 Watch the video There are currently over 129 million objects larger than a millimetre in orbits around Earth. Anything travelling up to 56 000 km/h in an orbit is dangerous if it comes into contact …
Looking for astronauts... 👨🚀 🧑🚀 🗓 On Tuesday, 16th February you’ll be able to learn more about the vacancies that are intended to initiate a real generational change for ESA. For the first time in 11 years, ESA is recruiting new astronauts. 🎉 🌍 More information
Apply now for an ESA student internship 📚 🔹 Agency 🤝 The next round of internship opportunities at ESA is now published and opportunities will remain open for a month. Internships last from three to six months and opportunities are available in engineering, science, IT, natural/social sciences, business and administration services. 📝 You can browse this year’s opportunities directly on our recruitment website. 🌍 …
Monitoring the artic heatwave 🌡 🔹 Applications Observing the Earth Over the past months, the Arctic has experienced alarmingly high temperatures, extreme wildfires and a significant loss of sea ice. 🧊 While hot summer weather is not uncommon in the Arctic, the region is warming at two to three times the global average – impacting nature and humanity on a global scale. 🥵 👁 Observations from space offer a unique op…
😄 Fun and education for kids and families with Expedition: Home 🔹 Agency ESA Education is launching "Expedition: Home", a one-stop website for kids and parents to do fun space-based activities and keep learning while at home. 👉 There are a lot of activities you can do on Expedition: Home during your free time, check them here! What? Do you want to start exploring space NOW? All right! This is the homepage of Expe…
Watch Solar Orbiter first image release 👀☀ 🔹 Science & Exploration 🗓 Join us on Thursday 16 July for an online press briefing with Solar Orbiter mission experts, who will present the first images from ESA’s new Sun-observing spacecraft. 🕰 The briefing starts at 14:00 CEST (13:00 BST; 08:00 EDT). 📺 Watch live on ESA Web TV 👉 Further details and registration for media are available HERE. 👉 For more information click…
🛰 Flight over Korolev Crater on Mars 🔹 Science & Exploration This movie, based on images taken by ESA’s Mars Express, showcases the 82 km wide Korolev crater on Mars. 🎥 👉 Check it out! Water ice is permanently stable within Korolev crater because the deepest part of this depression acts as a natural cold trap. The air above the ice cools and is thus heavier compared to the surrounding air: since air is a poor cond…
Rideshare service for light satellites to launch on Vega 🚀 🔹 Enabling & Support 🌍 Read the article now You can also watch the animation of Vega VV16 launch and satellite deployment. ⏯ #enabling #support #video #animation
Showing the 12 most recent of 14 posts we hold for @EuropeanSpaceAgency. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 22 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“ESA - European Space Agency” (@EuropeanSpaceAgency), 272 subscribers as measured 22 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/EuropeanSpaceAgency.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.