New MetOp Second Generation weather...
Less than three weeks since the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, was launched, this remarkable new satellite has already started transmitting data from two of its ...
ESA wraps up 300-million-kilometre...
Over the summer, the European Space Agency ran an optical communication demonstration campaign using two observatories on Earth and NASA's Psyche mission. All four optical links were successful.Four ...
Algae bloom chlorophyll South Australia
This image acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission – by its Ocean and Land Colour Instrument – shows high concentrations of chlorophyll in yellow-green along the coastline of South ...
ESA data records help underpin...
According to the newly released 35th State of the Climate report, 2024 saw record highs in greenhouse gas concentrations, global land and ocean temperatures, sea levels, and ocean heat content. ...
Juice team resolves anomaly on...
The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) is on track for its gravity-assist flyby at Venus on 31 August, following the successful resolution of a spacecraft communication ...
Iberian wildfires seen from space
Southern Europe is once again in the grip of extreme summer heat. Soaring temperatures and bone-dry land have fuelled widespread wildfires, with the Iberian Peninsula among the regions hardest hit. ...
ESA inaugurates new Cyber Security...
On 27 May 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) took an important step in ensuring the continued security of its critical infrastructure with the inauguration of a new Cyber Security Operations ...
ESAs Arctic Weather Satellite adds...
Although ESA's small Arctic Weather Satellite was built as a demonstrator for future constellation called EPS-Sterna, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is now incorporating its ...
MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5: from...
Europe's first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission – has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in ...
FLEX instrument meets its satellite
The development of ESA's Earth Explorer FLEX mission has recently passed a significant milestone: the mission's all-important, single instrument has been joined to its satellite platform.This ...
