ESA satellites track progress on...
As the United Nations COP30 climate change conference convenes in Belém, Brazil, the world's attention will turn to the heart of the Amazon rainforest – a region that symbolises both hope and ...
Sentinel-1D reaches orbit on Ariane 6
The Sentinel-1 mission – which provides radar vision for the Copernicus Earth observation programme – has a new addition to its family of satellites, with the arrival in orbit of Sentinel-1D, the ...
Sentinel-1D is launched on Ariane 6
The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe's ...
Copernicus Sentinel-1D launch coverage
The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe's ...
Sentinel-1D delivers first images:...
The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agency's Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, ...
Sentinel-5 debuts images of...
Launched just a little over three months ago, Copernicus Sentinel-5A has returned its first images – including a global map of ozone, maps of nitrogen dioxide over the Middle East and South Africa, ...
Swarm detects rare proton spike...
The European Space Agency's Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth's poles during a geomagnetic storm in November. It did this not with the scientific ...
ROSE-L given the shakes
A structural model of the upcoming Copernicus Radar Observing System for Europe at L-band satellite, or ROSE-L for short, has recently been put through a series of demanding tests – including ...
EarthCARE lifts the clouds on climate...
True to its promise, the European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite is now being used to calculate directly how clouds and aerosols influence Earth's energy balance – the all-important balance ...
From the Minoans to satellite metrology
The Minoans were a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization (c. 3100–1100 BC) on Crete and widely regarded as Europe's earliest advanced culture. They are best known for their impressive palace ...
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