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The outcomes of ESA's Ministerial Council were announced at a press conference in Bremen on 27 November.

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ESA’s Ministerial Council in Bremen

ESA directors at Ministerial Council in Bremen

Cooperation agreement for the development of a space hub on the Santa Maria island of the Azores

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher presents his proposal on the first day of the ESA Ministerial Council.

In Bremen during CM25, the European Investment Bank announced Space TechEU, its first dedicated financing programme for the European space sector.

The first images from the recently launched Sentinel-1D and Sentinel-5 were presented at CM25 by European Commissioner Andrius Kubilius and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher.

The European Space Agency has signed a letter of intent with Norway to advance the prospect of a new ESA Arctic Space Centre to be hosted in Tromsø.

Director of ESA Josef Aschbacher and Minister of Trade and Industry Cecilie Myrseth signing the letter of intent for Arctic Space Centre during the ministerial meeting CM25 taking place in Bremen Germany.

Ministers and high-level representatives gather for ESA's Ministerial Council

European Commissioner Andrius Kubilius is greeted by Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space, Germany and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher.

Josef Aschbacher introduces the ESA Director General's proposal to CM25

Ministers and high-level representatives for ESA's Ministerial Council.

ESA Council at Delegate level meets in Bremen on the eve of CM25.

Delegates from ESA's Member States met in Bremen on the eve of CM25.

Satellite data gives new insights into our home planet.

A glimpse of the environment at ESA's Ministerial Council.

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A storm of new stars

This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China.

Comet 3I/ATLAS shows activity in Juice navigation camera teaser

Bird’s-eye view: the butterflies and dark layers of Idaeus Fossae

Webb observes a dance of dwarf galaxies

30 years of SOHO imaging the Sun (animated)

Puttalam district in North Western Sri Lanka is currently facing severe flooding, landslides and rockfalls, caused by heavy monsoon rains across the region. Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured an image over the region yesterday, 30 November 2025, as well an image one month ago, showing the extent of flooding.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures a spectacular geological wonder in the Sahara Desert of Mauritania: the Richat Structure.

Baby stars blowing bubbles

The Hayli Gubbi volcano in northeast Ethiopia, dormant for up to 12 000 years, erupted on 23 November 2025, sending a large plume of ash and sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere. Copernicus Sentinel-5P captured the spread of the sulphur dioxide.

Finding star clusters in the Lost Galaxy

Flying for the Moon

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over one of Earth’s most extreme environments: the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia.

Solar fireworks caught on camera

SOHO observes comet 3I/ATLAS

Galileo ‘fit check’ and functional tests

Wolf-Rayet Apep (MIRI Image)

Webb: CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 in MACS J1149.5+2223

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Antarctic Peninsula by Sentinel-1D

Global ozone measured by Sentinel-5A

Bolivian forest: comparing Sentinel-2 and Biomass

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

Svalbard, Norway, seen from Sentinel-1C

Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)

Arctic Weather Satellite’s first images capture Storm Boris

Seville from Copernicus Sentinel-2C

Vertical distribution of cloud particle concentration

Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Didymos and Dimorphos seen by DART

Webb’s first deep field

Mercury first impressions

First sea-level height results from Copernicus Sentinel-6

The density of stars from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3

Venus setting

Solar Orbiter’s first views of the Sun

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