Watch live: Living Planet Symposium 2025
One of the biggest Earth observation conferences in the world will take place next week in Vienna. You can watch streamed plenary discussions and presentations each day on ESA Web TV.ESA's Living ...
Media invitation: Register for MTG-S1...
13 June 2025Two innovative Earth observation missions, the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument, are set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...
Earth from Space: East Kalimantan,...
Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured this image over part of eastern Borneo, a tropical island in Southeast Asia.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full resolution.Borneo, the ...
Why MTG-S1 is a nowcasting game-changer
The Meteosat Third Generation Sounder satellite (MTG-S) will generate a completely new type of data product, especially suited to nowcasting severe weather events. Here are five ways in which ...
Earth from Space: Saharan dust plume
A thick plume of sand and dust from the Sahara Desert is seen in these images blowing from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.Sandstorms, which are common over the Sahara, occur ...
A breath of fresh data: Sentinel-4...
From its vantage point outside Earth's atmosphere, more than 36 000 km above Earth's surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission will detect major air pollutants over Europe in unprecedented detail. ...
Mount Etna erupts
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has captured a dramatic image of Mount Etna erupting on 2 June 2025 when a massive plume of ash, gas and rock suddenly burst from Europe's largest active volcano. ...
ESA supports Moon mission carrying...
Japanese lunar exploration company ispace will attempt to land its RESILIENCE spacecraft on the Moon no earlier than 5 June (CEST) 2025.The European Space Agency's (ESA) global network of ground ...
ESA transmits the Blue Danube Waltz...
On 31 May 2025, the European Space Agency (ESA) made history by transmitting a live performance of The Blue Danube Waltz into space from its Cebreros deep space antenna in Spain. This symbolic ...
Tall ship brings ESA ocean science...
After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA's 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. ...
