Arctic Weather Satellite in shape
Embracing the New Space approach, it has taken just 36 months to develop and build ESA?s Arctic Weather Satellite. Now complete, this remarkable microsatellite has been shipped from OHB in Sweden to ...
Juice manouevre lines it up for 2024...
On 17 November 2023, ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) fired its main engine, burning 10% of the mission's entire fuel supply in just 43 minutes.Why?The engine burn was part of a two-part ...
Juice burns hard towards first-ever...
ESA?s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) launched from Europe?s spaceport in French Guiana on 14 April 2023.It?s on a mission to make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three ...
Earth from Space: North Channel
The North Channel, between Northern Ireland and Scotland, is featured in this false-colour radar image from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or ...
Spacecraft fall silent as Mars...
The space between Earth and Mars is usually buzzing with science data, telemetry and commands racing to and from almost a dozen missions at the Red Planet. But for roughly one and a half days this ...
Italy's Mount Etna spews lava
One of the world?s most active volcanoes, Mount Etna, erupted on Sunday ? spewing lava and clouds of ash high over the Mediterranean island of Sicily. This image, captured on 13 November by the ...
MetOp Second Generation weather...
Having satellites in different types of orbit is essential to delivering data to forecast the weather accurately. With the first Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite safely in geostationary ...
Two ESA lab-enabled satellites launched
MANTIS, the first satellite mission to be supported from concept to liftoff by ESA’s Earth Observation InCubed programme, was launched yesterday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. MANTIS carries a ...
Monitoring methane from space
Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas contributor to climate change after carbon dioxide. Curbing methane emissions could deliver immediate and long-lasting benefits for the climate, ...
Nourishing commercial growth in Earth...
Hot on the heels of the first Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum, now is a good time to take a look at the all-embracing support that ESA gives to the commercial sector in Europe. With funding ...
