Mission control GO for Sentinel-2C...

2024-09-03, 10:23 ESA

At ESA's ESOC mission control centre, in Darmstadt, Germany, every launch is preceded by the pre-launch briefing ? and the all-important team photos.The next satellite to be flown from ESOC, ...

Watch Sentinel-2C launch live on the...

2024-09-02, 15:27 ESA

The Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is ready for liftoff! Tune in to ESA WebTV on 4 September from 03:30 CEST to watch the satellite soar into space on the last Vega rocket to be launched from ...

Fourth Mercury flyby begins...

2024-09-02, 11:56 ESA

Teams from across ESA and industry have worked continuously over the past four months to overcome a glitch that prevented BepiColombo's thrusters from operating at full power. The ESA/JAXA mission is ...

Sentinel-2C: ready for liftoff

2024-08-30, 10:51 ESA

Sentinel-2C is ready for launch! The new satellite will soon join its Copernicus Sentinel-2 family in orbit ? where it will continue to provide detailed views of Earth's land and coastal waters.The ...

Sentinel-2C pre-launch media briefing

2024-08-29, 16:59 ESA

The Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is set for liftoff on 4 September on the last Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.This recording is of a media briefing held on 29 August ...

Media invitation: Sentinel-2C...

2024-08-28, 13:49 ESA

27 August 2024The latest satellite in Europe's Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2C, is set for launch on the last Vega rocket  lift off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, on 3 ...

Juices lunar-Earth flyby: the movie

2024-08-27, 20:58 ESA

On 19?20 August 2024, Juice successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, with flight controllers guiding the spacecraft first past the Moon, then past Earth. The gravity of the two changed ...

Sentinel-2C in the Vega launch tower

2024-08-27, 19:58 ESA

In preparation for liftoff on 4 September 2024 (3 September Kourou time), the Vega?Sentinel-2C upper-composite has been hoisted into the launch tower at Europe's Spaceport.The Sentinel-2 mission is ...

Sentinel-2C sealed in the Vega rocket...

2024-08-23, 12:29 ESA

As preparations continue to launch the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite on 4 September, the team at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid farewell to their precious satellite as it was ...

EarthCARE profiles atmospheric...

2024-08-21, 15:25 ESA

Launched in May, ESA's EarthCARE satellite has been making waves, with the first images from three of its scientific instruments already delivered. Now, the spotlight is firmly on the atmospheric ...