Juice team resolves anomaly on...

2025-08-25, 14:40 ESA

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

2025-08-20, 17:40 ESA

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...

2025-08-19, 14:00 ESA

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...

2025-08-19, 08:00 ESA

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...

2025-08-15, 08:20 ESA

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

2025-08-14, 13:40 ESA

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 ...

First MetOp-SG and Sentinel-5 launched

2025-08-14, 10:50 ESA

Ushering in a new era of weather and climate monitoring from polar orbit, the first in a new series of satellites, MetOp Second Generation, has been lofted into orbit aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from ...

Tracking the climate-driven shift in...

2025-08-13, 19:40 ESA

Combining 25 years of space-based data with ocean sampling, scientists have uncovered a change in the microscopic organisms that underpin the Southern Ocean's food chain and carbon storage.A study ...

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 launch...

2025-08-13, 14:20 ESA

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 Europe's Spaceport in French ...

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 ready for...

2025-08-12, 21:40 ESA

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 on Ariane 6 ready on the launch pad at the European spaceport in French Guiana ahead of liftoff, planned for 13 August 2025 at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou ...