Earth from Space: Jostedalsbreen, Norway
Ahead of the World Day for Glaciers, Copernicus Sentinel-2 captures the diverse landscape of western Norway with its jagged fjords, fertile valleys, mountain plateaus and Jostedalsbreen, the largest ...
OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather...
Thanks to the success of the Arctic Weather Satellite prototype and Eumetsat's recent greenlight to develop a full constellation of similar satellites called Sterna, the European Space Agency has ...
Hera on course for asteroid rendezvous
A successful deep-space manoeuvre has put ESA's Hera spacecraft on course for its rendezvous with the Didymos binary asteroid system later this year.The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft ...
ESAs HydroGNSS on track to scout for...
Just three months after launch, the European Space Agency's twin HydroGNSS satellites are already proving their capabilities in orbit. By exploiting reflected signals from navigation satellites – ...
Earth from Space: Maritime highways...
This image from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission shows us the maritime traffic passing through theØresund Strait in 2025.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10 m ...
Earth from Space: Dhaka, Bangladesh
These two views from Copernicus Sentinel-2 reveal the landscape transformation in the area around Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.This comparison shows Dhaka and its surroundings in February 2017 ...
Testing ozone-monitoring satellites...
Over the past year, satellite engineers at Redwire Space in Belgium have been hard at work assembling European Space Agency's ozone-monitoring satellite, ALTIUS. The team has now passed a major ...
Antarctica retreat study signals...
The ice along Antarctica's ‘grounding lines' has been largely stable over the past 30 years – but ice has retreated by more than 40 km in some areas, a new study based on satellite data ...
Earth from Space: Terra Nova Bay,...
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the icy landscape of Terra Nova Bay in East Antarctica.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution.The bay is on the ...
First MetOp Second Generation-B...
With launch planned for later this year, testing is well underway to ensure the MetOp Second Generation-B1 weather satellite is ready for its life in orbit around Earth. These checks include ...
