News - ESA

2025-07-04, 12:20 ESA

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures a cloud-free image of Zanzibar and part of the eastern coast of Tanzania.Zoom in or click on the circles to explore this image at its full 10 m ...

2025-07-02, 18:20 ESA

Two meteorological missions ? Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission ? have launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.Both are ...

2025-07-02, 08:10 ESA

The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission lifted off at 23:04 CEST on Tuesday, 1 July. The satellite is now on its ...

2025-07-02, 08:00 ESA

Two meteorological missions ? Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission ? have launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.Both are ...

2025-07-01, 15:20 ESA

A powerful heatwave has been gripping large parts of southern Europe and North Africa, pushing air temperatures beyond seasonal norms and triggering widespread health and wildfire alerts. Among the ...

2025-07-01, 08:00 ESA

While satellites have revolutionised our ability to measure sea level with remarkable precision, their data becomes less reliable near coasts ? where accurate information is most urgently needed. To ...

2025-06-30, 21:50 ESA

The Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite, which is hosting the instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, has been placed inside the nose cone of the Falcon 9 launch rocket and ...

2025-06-30, 11:20 ESA

The fourth day of ESA's Living Planet Symposium was busier than ever.  Today, ESA signed an agreement on integrating satellite data into global environmental reporting frameworks as part of ESA's ...

2025-06-29, 17:20 ESA

Scientists are harnessing data from ESA's Swarm mission and ground-based instruments to precisely measure the strength and duration of intense upper-atmosphere heating ? dramatic ?hot flushes' ...

2025-06-29, 16:40 ESA

ESA's Living Planet Symposium came to a close today, concluding a week of networking, discussions and meeting of curious, scientific minds.   Today, one of the focal points was thermal imaging ...