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The Ariel Consortium page | Ariel is an ESA mission to study what exoplanets are made of, how they formed, and how they evolve 🪐
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One month left to join the Ariel Data Challenge 2025!

Think you can advance exoplanet research and compete for $50,000 in prizes? Perfect for those passionate about space science to put their skills to the test!

Join the challenge and check out our ADC2025 videos here: linktr.ee/arieltelescope
A poster featuring the Ariel Data Challenge 2025 logo and the text: It's not too late to join the Ariel Data Challenge 2025. Deadline for registration is September 18th 2025. Competition ends on SEptember 25th 2025. Featuring a prize pool of $50,000. Join the challenge at http://www.ariel-datachallenge.space/ Poster featuring the list of Ariel Data Challenge sponsor logos, including, Cardiff University, UKSA, Rome Sapienza, DiRAC, KCL, CNES, IAA, IAP, UKRI, and UCL.
August 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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The Ariel Data Challenge 2025 has launched!

Join the challenge here:
www.ariel-datachallenge.space

To learn more about the challenge and read our ADC2025 launch press release:
arielmission.space/index.php/pr...

For ADC2025 updates, follow Ariel socials here:
linktr.ee/arieltelescope
A poster featuring the Ariel Data Challenge 2025 logo and text that reads: "ADC2025 has launched! Join us for the Ariel Data Challenge 2025! Follow: https://linktr.ee/arieltelescope When: 30th June 2025 Where: https://www.ariel-datachallenge.space"
June 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Ariel undergoes the UK’s first space acoustic tests, led by RAL Space! Read here: arielmission.space 👀
Teams from RAL Space, Active Space Technologies and the European Space Agency setting up acoustic tests in the NSTF. Credit: STFC RAL Space
April 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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🚨Check out the BBC Click episode featuring Ariel as part of a segment on the National Satellite Testing Facility on iplayer (link in our bio!) 👀

The Ariel payload is tested at
RAL Space & the NSTF before travelling to France to be mounted onto the platform developed by Airbus
Ariel UK National Project Manager Dr Rachel Drummond is speaking to the BBC Click interviewer while both are wearing protective clothing. She wears a full body jumpsuit, including protective head and face covering. A depiction of Ariel telescope in space, with the BBC logo in the top left corner, and the text 'European Space Agency' in white besides the image of Ariel on the left.
February 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Psst... we hear that Ariel gets a mention on BBC Click airing this weekend - with an appearance from our UK National Project Manager, Dr Rachel Drummond 👀📺
Screengrab of the BBC Iplayer website featuring the text: "01/02/2025. Alasdair Keane heads behind the scenes of the UK's National Satellite Test Facility. Spencer Kelly explores the robotics taking inspiration from nature. Plus, how a visual effects team brought the detail to the big screen in Mufasa: The Lion King. 01 February 2025." BBC Technology & Innovation journalist, Alasdair Keane interviews Ariel UK Project Manager Dr Rachel Drummond. They are standing in protective clothing in front of a large vacuum chamber in a large white clean room. Rachel is gesturing to Alasdair with a lighting kit in the foreground.
January 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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The Ariel team at NeurIPS conference 2024! 😊
The Ariel team stand smiling together at NeurIPS conference 2024
December 14, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Ariel - but make it tasty! 🎂😋

AIT (Assembly, Integration, and Test) technician Katherine submitted the 🏆winning cake🏆 to the RAL Space STFC Christmas bake off - judged by Ariel AIT manager Georgia Bishop!
Picture of a chocolate cake shaped like Ariel telescope on a table with tinsel festive decorations in the background
December 13, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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For those attending #NeurIPS2024 - join our workshop!
Poster featuring the text: JOIN OUR NEURIPS WORKSHOP. Learn about our kaggle challenge on exoplanets and ariel missions. Exoplanet science, Ariel Space Mission, AI applications in Space Science. Save the date: 14 December 2024, 9am - 12pm PST. Learn from our 2nd place winner, Jerome Cottaar (ASML).
December 12, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Ariel Data Challenge lead Dr Gordon (Kai Hou) Yip and Prof Ingo Waldmann are taking off, headed to #NeurIPS2024!

We’re looking forward to seeing many ADC 2024 winners present their solutions 🤩
Ariel Data Challenge lead Dr Gordon (Kai Hou) Yip and Prof Ingo Waldmann smile and gives thumbs up into the camera in front of an airport departure board
December 11, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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The winners of the Ariel Data Challenge 2024 have been officially announced!

After a fierce 3 months, 6 winners emerged from 1400+ participants from 75 countries - HUGE congratulations to all the winners!

For the full announcement, see the front page & press releases page here: arielmission.space
Text reading: "In an impressive field of competitors, six teams distinguished themselves: 1st Place: Kohki Horie (PhD student) and Yamato Arai (Master's student) from the University of Tokyo (Team c-number + daiwakun) 2nd Place: Jeroen Cottaar, Data Scientist at ASML (Team Jeroen Cottaar) 3rd Place: Vincent Debout and Sébastien Goulet from CS Group (Team Space Coder) 4th Place: Shlomo Ron (Team greySnow) 5th Place: Team Youri + Pascal 6th Place: Dmitrii Rudenko from LMU Munich (T eam Through the Thorns to the Star)" Ariel Data Challenge 2024 logo
December 11, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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🚨 LAST FEW DAYS 🚨

Register for ExoClock Unlocked by December 15th here: www.exoclock.space/exoclock_unl...

Want to contribute to real scientific research and learn about exoplanet science?

But don’t have a telescope? 🔭

No problem! Join ExoClock Unlocked! 🔓
The ExoClock Unlocked Logo Screen grab of ExoClock website featuring text that reads: “Want to be part of an innovative project? Want to study exoplanets as a professional astronomer? Want to know more about modern techniques in astronomy research? Want to contribute to real scientific research and learn about exoplanet science? Then … Join our team and discover the exciting science behind exoplanets In order to increase participation in our project and exoplanet science, we would like to give the opportunity to observe exoplanet transits to people that don’t have a telescope. This initiative is supported by the Las Cumbres Observatory through the LCO Global Sky Partners program. To participate, you don’t need to have any previous experience at all! What will you do? Participate to ExoClock by using remote telescopes. Perform an observation of an exoplanet transit with the support of the ExoClock team. Analyse the data with user-friendly tools with the guidance of the ExoClock team. Become a co-author in our publication after successful completeness of the project.”
December 10, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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Check out this new article from the researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) 👀

The IA's Pedro Machado is an Ariel Consortium board member & coordinator of the Ariel working group linking the study of exoplanet atmospheres with that of the Solar System
December 6, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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Wonderful write-up of ExoClock and Ariel's Lisbon meeting in November's NEURÓNIO ☺️ (And ICYMI - there's still time to join ExoClock Unlocked this year! Link in bio 👀)
News clipping from NEURÓNIO, SUPLEMENTO DO AÇORIANO ORIENTA pamphlet. The text is written in Portuguese.
December 4, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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📸 Group pics from the Oct 2024 Ariel Consortium meeting in Lisbon 👀

It's always wonderful to see everyone come together, with members travelling in from countries all over the world 🤩
The Ariel consortium huddles together in a group picture, more than 100 people squeezed into the main foyer of Pavilhão do Conhecimento/Ciência Viva The right side view of the Ariel consortium huddled together in a group picture, more than 100 people squeezed into the main foyer of Pavilhão do Conhecimento/Ciência Viva The left side view of the Ariel consortium huddled together in a group picture, more than 100 people squeezed into the main foyer of Pavilhão do Conhecimento/Ciência Viva
December 2, 2024 at 1:26 PM