News - ESA

2026-09-19, 08:30 ESA

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on 25 August 2026, shows an area of the Andean Altiplano in southern Bolivia near the border with Chile.Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m ...

2026-09-18, 09:20 ESA

The European Space Agency has awarded two contracts, one to ICEYE and one to Leonardo, to carry out parallel architecture studies for the EU's future Earth Observation Governmental Service ...

2026-09-17, 08:00 ESA

The longest satellite data record of ice-sheet change ever assembled has revealed that Greenland and Antarctica have lost a staggering 11 trillion tonnes of ice since the 1970s, driving global sea ...

2026-09-16, 08:40 ESA

Watch the full replay of the launch of ESA's state-of-the-art FLEX Earth Explorer satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite. Both were launched together aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe's ...

2026-09-16, 08:30 ESA

ESA's state-of-the-art FLEX Earth Explorer satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite have been launched together aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a ...

2026-09-16, 08:10 ESA

The European Space Agency's FLEX Earth Explorer satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite have been launched together aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, marking ...

2026-09-15, 08:40 ESA

Two Earth observation satellites – ESA's Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite, and the third satellite for the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission – are encapsulated inside the nose cone of a Vega-C ...

2026-09-15, 08:30 ESA

Plants may look still and silent, but every leaf is constantly responding to its environment.As plants photosynthesise, they emit an incredibly faint glow called fluorescence. Invisible to our eyes, ...

2026-09-12, 11:10 ESA

On 15 September, two spacecraft will leave Earth together aboard the same launcher from Europe's spaceport in Kourou: FLEX, ESA's photosynthesis mission, and Sentinel-3C, Copernicus' newest satellite ...

2026-09-11, 08:30 ESA

If you had to describe a plant, the first thing you might start with is its colour – and the first colour that usually comes to mind, is green. And indeed, by and large, plants appear green to our ...