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2025-09-19, 13:20 ESA

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures a cloud-free view over the island of Komodo in southeastern Indonesia.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10 m ...

2025-09-18, 18:40 ESA

For over a decade, mission control teams at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) have successfully commissioned and operated most of the Sentinel fleet of satellites. This week, in preparation ...

2025-09-15, 15:40 ESA

MetOp Second Generation (MetOp-SG) was launched in August 2025. Two of its instruments have already returned first data. Now it's the turn of the Multiviewing multichannel multipolarisation imager ...

2025-09-12, 19:40 ESA

Since its launch in 2008, Columbus has been a cornerstone of European research in orbit, enabling hundreds of experiments and hosting astronauts from across the globe.Explore the story behind this ...

2025-09-12, 14:20 ESA

Part of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia is featured in this image, captured by the Φsat-2 mission in June 2025.Covering an area of over 150 000 sq km, the desert consists of gravel terrains ...

2025-09-12, 08:00 ESA

The fourth satellite for the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, Sentinel-1D, has arrived at Félix Eboué airport, the main airport in French Guiana. From there the spacecraft, safely stored in its ...

2025-09-08, 15:00 ESA

As part of an effort coordinated by the European Space Agency (ESA), Safran has released the first ultra-precise active hydrogen maser technology, entirely developed and designed in Europe.This core ...

2025-09-04, 16:20 ESA

The second of the Meteosat Third Generation Imagers, MTG-I2, has passed some important milestones in the cleanroom facilities at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, southern France.There is no rest for ...

2025-09-02, 17:40 ESA

This video shows a timelapse of the launch preparations for Europe's first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite, which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission. MetOp-SG-A1 was ...

2025-09-02, 15:40 ESA

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 ...