Arctic Weather Satellite: advancing...

2024-08-13, 13:59 ESA

The effects of the climate crisis are felt more acutely in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet. The weather in the Arctic is not only severe, but it changes extremely quickly. More frequent ...

Detecting nitrogen dioxide from power...

2024-08-05, 12:25 ESA

Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide is a harmful pollutant with significant impacts on air quality, climate and the biosphere. Although satellites have mapped nitrogen dioxide concentrations since the ...

Glimpses of Heras target asteroids...

2024-08-03, 02:47 ESA

As ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence completes its pre-launch testing, its target asteroids have come into focus as tiny worldlets of their own. A special issue of Nature ...

Juice returns for a lunar-Earth flyby

2024-07-29, 18:51 ESA

ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is coming back to Earth.Our fearless traveller is getting a nudge from Earth this summer, in the first of four ?gravity assist manoeuvres' that will put Juice ...

Earth from Space: Paris in focus

2024-07-26, 13:22 ESA

This striking high-resolution image offers an in-depth view of central Paris, allowing you to explore and zoom into the city's most captivating areas in exceptional detail. Paris lies in the ...

EarthCAREs multispectral imager puts...

2024-07-24, 16:21 ESA

Launched less than two months ago, ESA's EarthCARE satellite has already returned images from two of its four instruments. Now, it has also delivered the first images from its multispectral imager, ...

Hera spacecraft trio to fly safe with...

2024-07-24, 12:50 ESA

ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence involves not just one spacecraft but three: two shoebox-sized CubeSats will fly up to a few dozen kilometres away from their mothership around the Didymos ...

ESA and UK Space Agency announce new...

2024-07-22, 15:01 ESA

ESA and the UK Space Agency are pleased to announce a new joint funding call ?InCubed2 - Innovation in Public Services with Satellite Earth Observation' for all UK-based entities developing ...

Sentinel-2C arrives in French Guiana

2024-07-22, 10:28 ESA

The Sentinel-2C satellite, the third Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, has arrived at the European spaceport in French Guiana for liftoff on the final Vega rocket in September. Sentinel-2C, like its ...

ESA stations support three Moon...

2024-07-19, 15:48 ESA

Happy International Moon Day!ESA's network of satellite communication stations ? Estrack ? continues to connect Earth and the Moon in 2024. ESA stations are supporting three new and returning ...