Sentinel-1 reveals shifts from...
Following the devastating earthquake that struck Morocco on 8 September, satellite data have been made available through the International Charter ?Space and Major Disasters? to help emergency ...
Showcase your climate data...
Are you a creative visionary with a passion for climate action? Enter ESA?s latest competition to showcase your talent by transforming decades of satellite climate data into impactful visuals to help ...
Meteosat Third Generation: painting...
In a significant leap forward for meteorology, the preliminary data obtained by Meteosat Third Generation?s two instruments, the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) and the Lightning Imager (LI), were ...
Final images before Aeolus demise
International regulations on space debris mitigation set a limit on how long a satellite should linger in orbit once its mission is complete ? it mustn?t be longer than 25 years.For missions flying ...
Hera asteroid mission here
The moment ESA?s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence arrived at the largest satellite test site in Europe ? the ESTEC Test Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.The van-sized spacecraft was ...
How is ESA supporting ISRO?s Aditya...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to launch its Aditya-L1 solar observatory from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota Range (SDSC SHAR), India, at 11:50 IST (08:20 CEST) on 2 ...
Wildfires continue to rage in Greece
A month after fires ravaged the island of Rhodes in July 2023, more fires have ripped through Greece this week as southern Europe swelters under a late summer heatwave. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 ...
Portugal blaze
With Portugal in the grip of a heatwave, a wildfire broke out on 5 August south of Odemira in the Alentejo region in southern Portugal. This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite ...
Simulating Aeolus?s demise: a bird?s...
Aeolus?s mission is over, but weather forecasting is improved forever, and a new precedent has been set for safe satellite reentries. The trailblazing Earth Explorer returned through our atmosphere ...
Aeolus reentry: the breakdown
After a remarkable life in orbit, Aeolus is out of fuel and out of time ? it?s returning to Earth this week. Planned and built before any regulations were put in place on ?end-of-life? disposal, the ...
