Airbus to build ESAs Vigil space...
ESA has signed a contract with Airbus Defence & Space UK worth ?340 million for the development of its Vigil satellite. From its unique vantage point in deep space, Vigil will greatly improve our ...
Iceberg A-83 breaks free
An iceberg roughly the size of the Isle of Wight has broken off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on 20 May.This calving event results from a prolonged weakening of the ice at the McDonald Ice ...
Fireball witnessed by weather satellite
While a meteor lit up the skies over Spain and Portugal recently, it was also captured by the Meteosat Third Generation Imager weather satellite hovering 36,000 km away in geostationary orbit.On 18 ...
EarthCARE pre-launch press briefing
ESA's Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) mission is designed to advance our understanding of the role that clouds and aerosols play in reflecting incident solar radiation back out ...
Earth from Space: New Zealands North...
Captured on 7 May 2024, this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of New Zealand's North Island.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution or click on the circles to learn ...
Media advisory: EarthCARE launch...
17 May 2024ESA's EarthCARE mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, no earlier than Tuesday 28 May 2024.EarthCARE is the most complex of all of ...
What does EarthCARE mean to me?
A new satellite called EarthCARE launching later this month will provide unprecedented data on clouds and aerosols, contributing to our understanding of climate change. As we approach its launch, ...
EarthCARE mission kit
Explore this mission kit to learn more about EarthCARE ? ESA's new mission that will shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth's climate. This is an interactive ...
Canadas wildfire season begins
Wildfire season has arrived in full force in Canada, prompting evacuation orders and alerts in several towns in British Columbia and Alberta due to the danger of uncontrolled blazes.Hazardous smoke ...
Glitch on BepiColombo: work ongoing...
BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, has experienced an issue that is preventing the spacecraft's thrusters from operating at full power.BepiColombo is a three-part spacecraft ...
