The Pokémon Firm and European Area Company (ESA) have introduced a brand new collaboration to rejoice World Area Week (4th -Tenth October).
As a part of the collab, a particular Pikachu plush was despatched as much as the Worldwide Area Station for a complete of 67 days, from eleventh April to twenty seventh June 2026, finishing 1040 orbits. We have but to obtain our personal remark from Pikachu, however phrase on the road is it mentioned one thing alongside the traces of being “related to life” and “join to like”, so yeah, you do you, Pikachu.
The collab will see momentary exhibitions go reside throughout ESA websites and museums throughout Europe, designed to encourage curiosity for area exploration amongst audiences of all ages. There can even be a particular Pokémon GO occasion for these nonetheless invested in Scopely’s cell sport.
The ESA websites included within the collab are as follows:
- ESA Headquarters, Paris, France: 19-20 September 2026
- ESRIN, Rome, Italy: 25 September 2026
- ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands: 26–27 September 2026
- ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany: 2 October 2026
- ESAC, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain: 3 October 2026
- ECSAT, Harwell, United Kingdom: 10 October 2026
Following this, museum exhibitions can even happen from early October 2026 to April 2027 on the following places:
- Cité de l’espace, Toulouse, France
- Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain
- Deutsches Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
- Euro Area Middle, Libin, Belgium
- Lucca Comics & Video games, Lucca, Italy
- Science Museum, London, United Kingdom
- Area Expo, Noordwijk, Netherlands
