Mission Control GO for EarthCARE launch
At ESA's ESOC mission control, in Darmstadt, Germany, every launch is preceded by a pre-launch briefing ? and the all-important group photo. This is the team that will fly EarthCARE ? ESA's newest ...
Last look at EarthCARE
ESA's EarthCARE satellite being encapsulated with in the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fairing, which protects the satellite during the first stages of launch.ESA's Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation ...
Earth from Space: Changing Iceland in...
Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula is featured in this colourful radar image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution or click on the circles to learn ...
Unravelling the mysteries of clouds
Clouds are one of the biggest mysteries in the climate system. They play a key role in the regulating the temperature of our atmosphere. But we don't know how their behaviour will change over time as ...
Watch EarthCARE launch live
ESA's Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) mission is getting ready for lift-off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Vandenberg, California, with a target launch date of no earlier than 28 ...
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 ...
