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The images are false-colour and were created using Sentinel-2’s near-infrared channel.

Wildfires, drought and extreme heat, 2026

10/08/2026 1339 views 29 likes

Seven members of ESA’s MTG team at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

The team behind Europe’s latest weather satellite

06/08/2026 1509 views 19 likes

Absolute severity measures the loss of above-ground biomass after a disturbance, such as wind, fire or insect damage, or after tree harvesting.

Europe’s forests losing more biomass since 2018

05/08/2026 2486 views 56 likes

Surface water over South America from HydroGNSS

HydroGNSS data open for new insights into Earth’s water

31/07/2026 3113 views 45 likes

Pacific Ocean salinity June 2026

SMOS salinity could offer early indicator of El Niño

30/07/2026 2221 views 48 likes

The data was captured by radar instruments on the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites.

How Sentinel-1 measured movement of Venezuela quakes

28/07/2026 2835 views 39 likes

This view of Xingu Indigenous Park and surrounding area, in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil, shows above-ground biomass (AGB) increases and decreases between 2005 and 2024.

Improved reporting needed on forest carbon emissions

22/07/2026 1407 views 37 likes

FLEX and Sentinel-3 head to launch site

FLEX and Sentinel-3C arrive at Europe’s Spaceport

16/07/2026 1719 views 39 likes

ESRIN

ESA brings quantum computing to Earth observation

15/07/2026 1847 views 27 likes

MTG-Sounder satellite over the equator

MTG-S1 commissioned and in position for weather forecasting

15/07/2026 1530 views 41 likes

Interferograms of Scar Inlet Ice Shelf in 1995 compared to 2026

Satellites in tandem reveal 30 years of Antarctic ice flow

09/07/2026 2214 views 56 likes

First light from the Hellenic Fire System

Hellenic Fire System achieves first light

07/07/2026 1300 views 29 likes

MTG-I2 was taken out of its protective casing at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana

Unpacking Europe’s new weather imagers

07/07/2026 2095 views 28 likes

Advancing Earth science

Watch: Earth Explorer 12 User Consultation Meeting

02/07/2026 980 views 5 likes

Aeolus-2

Authorisation paves the way for Aeolus-2 wind mission

02/07/2026 1897 views 45 likes

Radar vision

Time to say goodbye to Sentinel-1A

30/06/2026 8011 views 79 likes

EarthCARE White Dragon improves weather forecasts

A first: EarthCARE cloud data sharpen weather forecasts

25/06/2026 1634 views 38 likes

Advancing Earth science

Don’t miss the Earth Explorer 12 User Consultation Meeting

18/06/2026 1202 views 15 likes

CO2M spectrometers in the cleanroom

Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite’s instrument passes vac…

17/06/2026 927 views 24 likes

El Niño 2026 begins

Pacific warming signals El Niño has stirred

15/06/2026 12566 views 56 likes

Urban expansion and flood risk in Hanoi, 2016–2026

Tracking urban expansion in hazard-prone areas

11/06/2026 5129 views 39 likes

Sentinel-1 Next Generation

ESA awards contract to build Sentinel-1 Next Generation sat…

10/06/2026 2922 views 30 likes

Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide concentrations in 2024

Cleaner air and prosperity can go hand in hand

09/06/2026 5059 views 59 likes

The agreement sets out the intention for ESA and the EBRD to further explore areas of mutual interest for potential collaboration.

ESA and EBRD to advance Earth observation for development a…

08/06/2026 1470 views 28 likes

Tessera offers high-accuracy datasets that encode what the satellite ‘sees’ of Earth’s surface

Tessera AI model offers accessible way to view Earth

04/06/2026 7616 views 61 likes

Earth’s stormy heart

Insights into Earth’s molten outer core from space

21/05/2026 8289 views 79 likes

Scout missions

Greenlight for next two ESA Scout missions

20/05/2026 3874 views 55 likes

Cyber-resilience

Enabling & Support

Satellite Evidence in the Courtroom

19/05/2026 849 views 6 likes

The StatEO26 conference was held at ESA’s Esrin site in Italy.

Earth observation data for the policymaking of tomorrow

08/05/2026 1602 views 14 likes

Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum

Watch live: selected sessions from the ESA CommEO Forum

08/05/2026 815 views 19 likes

Airship over Sodankylä

Putting the ‘super’ into a supersite for Earth observation

06/05/2026 2526 views 59 likes

Fourteen European satellites on the same rideshare launcher have successfully reached orbit

Launch boosts European Earth monitoring and connectivity

04/05/2026 3042 views 49 likes

One of Hellenic Fire System satellites

Hellenic Fire System satellites launched for Greece

04/05/2026 3318 views 42 likes

IRIDE reaches new milestone

Italy’s Earth monitoring programme reaches new milestone

04/05/2026 1138 views 12 likes

The Sentinel-1 mission

Sentinel-1D goes live: a milestone for Europe’s radar missi…

01/05/2026 5783 views 68 likes

Gallery forests of the Angola–DRC borderlands

Stunning images from Biomass mark its one year in orbit

29/04/2026 5307 views 86 likes

Not your normal commute

Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

24/04/2026 2758 views 54 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 15476 views 45 likes

Desert locust

Turning data from space into action for Earth

22/04/2026 2777 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 4116 views 59 likes

Salps

Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice transforms marine life

15/04/2026 2858 views 62 likes

ROSE-L radar wing deployment test

ROSE-L radar unfolds in crucial ground test

08/04/2026 2010 views 25 likes

Italy’s IRIDE space programme adds eight satellites

Eight more satellites added to IRIDE space programme

31/03/2026 2280 views 40 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 5151 views 46 likes

MTG-I2 pushed into place for final environmental tests

Next MTG satellite passes final environmental tests

27/03/2026 983 views 20 likes

Carbon monoxide emissions over central South America, September 2024

Amazon wildfire emissions up to three times higher than est…

25/03/2026 2912 views 49 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 1908 views 34 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite like a bird

OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation

18/03/2026 2874 views 30 likes

CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?

16/03/2026 2870 views 54 likes

HydroGNSS: Scouting for water

ESA’s HydroGNSS on track to scout for water

12/03/2026 1384 views 17 likes

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