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Petermann Glacier calves huge iceberg
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Sentinel-1 captures major ice loss from Greenland glacier

21/08/2026 1368 views 11 likes
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Safey is paramount when fuelling a satellite
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ESA’s photosynthesis satellite fuelled

20/08/2026 850 views 25 likes
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Replay: MTG-I2 pre-launch media briefing

19/08/2026 497 views 25 likes
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Fires near Vancouver, Canada
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Wildfires, drought and extreme heat, 2026

18/08/2026 3985 views 65 likes
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Two contrasting views of the countryside around the Serbian capital, Belgrade, captured on 8 August 2026.
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Sentinel-3 provides faster data for Europe fires

18/08/2026 640 views 8 likes
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MTG-I1 captures eclipse path of totality over Europe

13/08/2026 15492 views 161 likes
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Press Release N° 38–2026
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Media invitation: MTG-I2 pre-launch online briefings

Media representatives are invited to join online media briefings in English, French and German ahead of the launch of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Imager weather satellite, MTG-I2.
10/08/2026 633 views
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Danube’s waters fall to record lows

07/08/2026 17004 views 89 likes
These Copernicus Sentinel-2 images over the Danube north of Budapest show how the river’s level has fallen to a record low in Hungary due to a severe drought in central Europe.
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Seven members of ESA’s MTG team at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
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The team behind Europe’s latest weather satellite

06/08/2026 1780 views 20 likes
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Earth from Space: New Orleans and the mighty Mississippi

31/07/2026 4167 views 52 likes
This colourful radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission features New Orleans and the delta of the Mississippi River, one the largest rivers in North America.
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Wildfires near Cebreros ground station, Spain

27/07/2026 2570 views 51 likes
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, captured on 26 July, shows a zoomed-in view over ESA's Cebreros ground station, which lies within the areas heavily affected by the wildfires in Spain.
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Fires rage near Bordeaux, France

27/07/2026 17277 views 99 likes
These images by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, captured on 26 July, show the area to the west of Bordeaux, France, where wildfires continue to burn countryside, fanned by wind and heatwave conditions.
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Earth from Space: Agricultural patchwork

24/07/2026 1984 views 40 likes
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Australia’s southwestern corner in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia.
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Press Release N° 35–2026
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Call for interest: media programme for FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C launch at Europe’s Spaceport

Media representatives are invited to express their interest in attending the media programme at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for the launch of the FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellites on a Vega-C rocket (flight VV30). Liftoff is expected to take place on 14 September 2026 (22:21 local time, 03.21 CEST on 15 September).
20/07/2026 1242 views
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