News - ESA

2026-10-27, 08:30 ESA

With its solar arrays integrated and key qualification reviews under way, Europe's new ice-monitoring satellite, CRISTAL, is moving from assembly into the demanding testing phase that will ...

2026-10-24, 14:50 ESA

Ten years after arriving at Mars, ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has grown far beyond its original ambitions. From revealing the martian atmosphere to becoming a vital communications link with ...

2026-10-24, 08:20 ESA

This image, captured by the Pleiades Neo satellite mission, shows a detailed view of the city of Toulouse in southwest France, with its terracotta tiled rooftops lending it the nickname la ville ...

2026-10-21, 08:20 ESA

Following a 10-day voyage across the Atlantic from Bordeaux in France, the MetOp Second Generation-B1 weather satellite, has arrived at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. After a short storage ...

2026-10-20, 08:30 ESA

Demonstrating that the visible channels of Sentinel-3C's sea and land surface temperature radiometer are working as expected, on 2 October the instrument captured this image of Hurricane Rachel over ...

2026-10-17, 08:30 ESA

This image over part of West Antarctica was captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 30 September 2026.Zoom in to explore this image at its full resolution.At this time of year, winter is coming to an ...

2026-10-15, 08:50 ESA

On 28 September, ESA's Juice mission reached another important Jupiter-bound milestone with its penultimate gravity assist manoeuvre: a flyby of Earth. This encounter, however, was not only an ...

2026-10-14, 08:50 ESA

Launched two years ago today, the European Space Agency's Hera mission for planetary defence has been hurtling away from Earth ever since. The small-car-sized spacecraft is now preparing for its ...

2026-10-14, 08:00 ESA

The European Space Agency's Hera planetary defence mission team is preparing to light a fire in the sky. On the early morning of 15 October the small-car-sized spacecraft will burn its Orbit Control ...

2026-10-13, 14:50 ESA

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released Earth Virtual Expert (EVE), a platform powered with Artificial Intelligence (AI), to make Earth observation information more accessible and easier to ...