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Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

24/04/2026 1303 views 43 likes

Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.

Why is Antarctica’s mass increasing?

23/04/2026 2178 views 33 likes

Desert locust

Turning data from space into action for Earth

22/04/2026 1470 views 33 likes

FLEX, Sentinel-3C and MTG-I2 on show at TAS cleanrooms

Three ESA-built satellites on show in France

16/04/2026 2854 views 57 likes

Salps

Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice transforms marine life

15/04/2026 2085 views 58 likes

HydRON optical communication for broadband in space

ESA begins next phase of 'fibre in the sky' optical communi…

15/04/2026 1765 views 48 likes

ESA’s Celeste broadcasts first navigation signal

ESA’s Celeste broadcasts first navigation signal from low E…

10/04/2026 3752 views 41 likes

ROSE-L radar wing deployment test

ROSE-L radar unfolds in crucial ground test

08/04/2026 1604 views 24 likes

Blue Ghost lander on the Moon’s surface

Galileo goes to the Moon

07/04/2026 1168 views 17 likes

View from orbit as satellites are deployed during the Transporter‑16 rideshare mission.

Seven missions launched to test optimised data transfer fro…

31/03/2026 2056 views 40 likes

Italy’s IRIDE space programme adds eight satellites

Eight more satellites added to IRIDE space programme

31/03/2026 1736 views 39 likes

Liftoff for Celeste on Rocket Lab's Electron rocket

Celeste’s first satellites launched to explore LEO-based sa…

28/03/2026 4236 views 54 likes

Celeste IOD-1 and 2 on Electron's kick stage (artist impression)

Watch live: First Celeste launch

27/03/2026 12015 views 133 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 4024 views 41 likes

MTG-I2 pushed into place for final environmental tests

Next MTG satellite passes final environmental tests

27/03/2026 563 views 19 likes

Carbon monoxide emissions over central South America, September 2024

Amazon wildfire emissions up to three times higher than est…

25/03/2026 2186 views 44 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 1549 views 31 likes

NOMADLINK trailer for emergency services [Visual by Excelerate Technology]

Trailer to set up space-enabled connectivity in emergencies

23/03/2026 471 views 11 likes

ESA's Genesis satellite

Seven scientific benefits of ESA’s Genesis mission

20/03/2026 798 views 23 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite like a bird

OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation

18/03/2026 2150 views 30 likes

CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?

16/03/2026 2376 views 53 likes

HydroGNSS: Scouting for water

ESA’s HydroGNSS on track to scout for water

12/03/2026 1040 views 17 likes

Students testing signals with the SatGO educational kit next to an antenna during ESA Discovery Week 2025

SatGO educational kit: from satellite communications to STEM

10/03/2026 801 views 23 likes

Optical Ground Station in Chile, by the Andean foothills

Ground station in Chile ready to connect to space via laser

10/03/2026 1164 views 27 likes

Demagnetising a Hellenic Fire System satellite

Hellenic Fire System moves a step closer to launch

09/03/2026 938 views 23 likes

Celeste IOD-1 separating from Electron (artist impression)

Follow the Celeste launch campaign

04/03/2026 3382 views 40 likes

Altius to track ozone

Testing ozone-monitoring satellite’s solar wings

03/03/2026 1403 views 21 likes

Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

03/03/2026 3919 views 58 likes

Laurent Jaffart, ESA Director of Resilience, Navigation and Connectivity announces up to €100 million in funding for four challenges

ESA and GSMA Foundry launch new round of challenges for smo…

02/03/2026 1239 views 18 likes

Aircraft in Nimes, France, ready to test Airbus' UltraAir laser terminal

World-first gigabit-per-second laser link between aircraft …

26/02/2026 16652 views 49 likes

A member of Stealthcase climbing up to the peak of Mount Halti to test connectivity enabled by his red jacket

Connecting a jacket to space to save lives

25/02/2026 849 views 23 likes

Timelapse: deploying MetOp-SG-B1’s solar wing

First MetOp Second Generation-B satellite spreads its wing

25/02/2026 2103 views 62 likes

Galileo satellite in orbit

Galileo vs. spoofing: ESA tests in real-world environments

24/02/2026 1354 views 18 likes

Celeste in-orbit demonstration satellites orbiting

ESA’s Celeste target launch date confirmed

19/02/2026 4882 views 33 likes

Mediterranean Sea heatwaves

Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science

18/02/2026 6432 views 64 likes

Genesis satellite

Let there be design: ESA’s Genesis mission passes PDR

17/02/2026 1039 views 20 likes

Yellow River Delta, China

River deltas are sinking faster than the sea is rising

17/02/2026 2762 views 52 likes

Flooding around the Tejo River, Portugal, by Sentinel-1

Intense rainfall brings floods across Iberian Peninsula

10/02/2026 12749 views 94 likes

Changes in methane concentration 2019–2022

The curious case of why methane spiked around Covid

06/02/2026 6987 views 88 likes

Rubidium Pulsed Optically Pumped (Rb POP) atomic clock by Leonardo, Italy

Three ways R&D has shaped Galileo Second Generation

05/02/2026 2007 views 24 likes

Destination Earth ready for phase 3

Europe’s digital Earth gets ready to grow user community

02/02/2026 2149 views 21 likes

Tibetan Plateau vertical ground displacement

New satellite view of Tibet’s tectonic clash

30/01/2026 11719 views 77 likes

A dentist at ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) in the UK controlling a robotic arm at the University of Glasgow’s SCENE facility at Loch Lomond.

Dentistry at a distance: a 650 km checkup via satellite

29/01/2026 683 views 14 likes

Global air humidity by MTG-Sounder

Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first…

27/01/2026 88107 views 87 likes

Map of forest carbon from ESA’s Biomass mission

ESA’s Biomass goes live with data now open to all

26/01/2026 11722 views 102 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in action

Arctic Weather Satellite paves way for constellation

22/01/2026 3706 views 57 likes

Gas flares in Qatar imaged by Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 explores night vision

15/01/2026 10875 views 122 likes

Small clearing in tropical forest

Tiny patches of deforestation drive tropical carbon loss

08/01/2026 3414 views 57 likes

Ice velocity on Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, 2014–2024

Sentinel-1's decade of essential data over shifting ice she…

07/01/2026 5525 views 40 likes

Galileo launch 14 liftoff

Galileo’s first Ariane 6 launch strengthens European resili…

17/12/2025 6479 views 65 likes

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