News - ESA

2026-09-15, 08:40 ESA

Two Earth observation satellites – ESA's Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite, and the third satellite for the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission – are encapsulated inside the nose cone of a Vega-C ...

2026-09-15, 08:30 ESA

Plants may look still and silent, but every leaf is constantly responding to its environment.As plants photosynthesise, they emit an incredibly faint glow called fluorescence. Invisible to our eyes, ...

2026-09-12, 11:10 ESA

On 15 September, two spacecraft will leave Earth together aboard the same launcher from Europe's spaceport in Kourou: FLEX, ESA's photosynthesis mission, and Sentinel-3C, Copernicus' newest satellite ...

2026-09-11, 08:30 ESA

If you had to describe a plant, the first thing you might start with is its colour – and the first colour that usually comes to mind, is green. And indeed, by and large, plants appear green to our ...

2026-09-11, 08:00 ESA

Copernicus Sentinel-3 is one of the most diverse missions for measuring and monitoring Earth's climate systems. It captures a breadth of data about the environment and has contributed substantially ...

2026-09-10, 09:20 ESA

After eight years of travelling through the inner Solar System, BepiColombo is arriving at Mercury. This page will show the latest updates throughout the mission's arrival. BepiColombo is a ...

2026-09-10, 09:10 ESA

Europe's Meteosat Third Generation Imager 2 (MTG-I2) satellite has reached its designated orbit at 36 000 km from Earth and is ready to begin its commissioning phase, preparing it to provide years of ...

2026-09-10, 09:00 ESA

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Saturday, 5 September, shows a plume from the eruption of Anak Krakatau. The small volcanic island, in the Indonesian archipelago situated ...

2026-09-10, 08:50 ESA

Ahead of their dual launch aboard a Vega-C rocket on flight VV30, ESA's FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite have been rolled out within the rocket fairing to the launch tower at ...

2026-09-10, 08:40 ESA

At Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, preparations for one of the year's most anticipated Earth-observation launches are entering their final stages.FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C have now been ...