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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 1526 views 38 likes

Italy’s IRIDE space programme adds eight satellites

Eight more satellites added to IRIDE space programme

31/03/2026 1276 views 36 likes

Liftoff for Celeste on Rocket Lab's Electron rocket

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

28/03/2026 3633 views 52 likes

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

Watch live: First Celeste launch

27/03/2026 11636 views 127 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 3214 views 35 likes

MTG-I2 pushed into place for final environmental tests

Next MTG satellite passes final environmental tests

27/03/2026 398 views 17 likes

Carbon monoxide emissions over central South America, September 2024

Amazon wildfire emissions up to three times higher than est…

25/03/2026 1741 views 41 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 1339 views 30 likes

NOMADLINK trailer for emergency services [Visual by Excelerate Technology]

Trailer to set up space-enabled connectivity in emergencies

23/03/2026 405 views 10 likes

ESA's Genesis satellite

Seven scientific benefits of ESA’s Genesis mission

20/03/2026 644 views 19 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite like a bird

OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation

18/03/2026 1907 views 28 likes

CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?

16/03/2026 2182 views 52 likes

HydroGNSS: Scouting for water

ESA’s HydroGNSS on track to scout for water

12/03/2026 903 views 16 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 698 views 21 likes

Optical Ground Station in Chile, by the Andean foothills

Ground station in Chile ready to connect to space via laser

10/03/2026 1035 views 26 likes

Demagnetising a Hellenic Fire System satellite

Hellenic Fire System moves a step closer to launch

09/03/2026 841 views 22 likes

Celeste IOD-1 separating from Electron (artist impression)

Follow the Celeste launch campaign

04/03/2026 3151 views 39 likes

Altius to track ozone

Testing ozone-monitoring satellite’s solar wings

03/03/2026 1269 views 20 likes

Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

03/03/2026 3625 views 56 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 1153 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 16193 views 47 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 791 views 23 likes

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

First MetOp Second Generation-B satellite spreads its wing

25/02/2026 1960 views 61 likes

Galileo satellite in orbit

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

24/02/2026 1231 views 18 likes

Celeste in-orbit demonstration satellites orbiting

ESA’s Celeste target launch date confirmed

19/02/2026 4716 views 33 likes

Mediterranean Sea heatwaves

Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science

18/02/2026 5920 views 64 likes

Genesis satellite

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

17/02/2026 920 views 18 likes

Yellow River Delta, China

River deltas are sinking faster than the sea is rising

17/02/2026 2496 views 51 likes

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

Intense rainfall brings floods across Iberian Peninsula

10/02/2026 12363 views 92 likes

Changes in methane concentration 2019–2022

The curious case of why methane spiked around Covid

06/02/2026 6850 views 87 likes

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

Three ways R&D has shaped Galileo Second Generation

05/02/2026 1868 views 24 likes

Destination Earth ready for phase 3

Europe’s digital Earth gets ready to grow user community

02/02/2026 2054 views 21 likes

Tibetan Plateau vertical ground displacement

New satellite view of Tibet’s tectonic clash

30/01/2026 11476 views 75 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 636 views 14 likes

Global air humidity by MTG-Sounder

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

27/01/2026 87701 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 10915 views 101 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in action

Arctic Weather Satellite paves way for constellation

22/01/2026 3568 views 57 likes

Gas flares in Qatar imaged by Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 explores night vision

15/01/2026 10423 views 120 likes

Small clearing in tropical forest

Tiny patches of deforestation drive tropical carbon loss

08/01/2026 3315 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 5272 views 40 likes

Galileo launch 14 liftoff

Galileo’s first Ariane 6 launch strengthens European resili…

17/12/2025 6339 views 65 likes

Sea-level height in the Gulf Stream, by Sentinel-6B

First image from Sentinel-6B extends sea-level legacy

16/12/2025 3161 views 39 likes

Methane from landfill site

Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks

15/12/2025 5767 views 67 likes

Artist's view of Galileo SAT 33 and 34 on their Ariane 6 launcher moments after fairing release.

Watch live: Galileo launch on Ariane 6

12/12/2025 12595 views 86 likes

High-energy protons during solar storm over the North Pole

Swarm detects rare proton spike during solar storm

11/12/2025 9303 views 78 likes

Boeing's ecoDemonstrator Explorer, operated by United Airlines, ready to test ESA-supported Iris technology

Space-enabled air traffic control takes flight globally

11/12/2025 1791 views 15 likes

ITA Airways A320neo have already started implementing ESA-supported Iris system for smarter flights

Smarter flights for ITA Airways through satellites

10/12/2025 1852 views 13 likes

ROSE-L set up for acoustic testing

ROSE-L given the shakes

08/12/2025 2151 views 18 likes

The journey of European satellite navigation

The 30-year journey of European satellite navigation

04/12/2025 702 views 3 likes

EarthCARE improves estimates of how clouds influence Earth’s energy balance

EarthCARE lifts the clouds on climate models

03/12/2025 4527 views 70 likes

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