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Smoke plume from Greek wildfires seen by Sentinel-3

How Sentinel-3 tracks climate change

04/09/2026 1016 views 31 likes

FLEX and Sentinel-3C being sealed from view

FLEX and Sentinel-3C sealed within Vega-C fairing

02/09/2026 1390 views 39 likes

Sentinel-2 captures before and after Nepal flash flood

Nepal flash flood imaged by satellites

31/08/2026 47871 views 107 likes

MTG-I2 begins its journey

MTG-I2 completes Europe’s latest weather trio

27/08/2026 3425 views 47 likes

MTG-I2 on the launch pad

MTG-I2 ready for launch on Ariane 6

27/08/2026 3517 views 25 likes

MTG-I2 fairing jettison

Watch live: MTG-I2 set for liftoff

24/08/2026 10569 views 77 likes

Petermann Glacier calves huge iceberg

Sentinel-1 captures major ice loss from Greenland glacier

21/08/2026 10937 views 87 likes

Safey is paramount when fuelling a satellite

ESA’s photosynthesis satellite fuelled

20/08/2026 1808 views 46 likes

Pennine Alps glacier retreat

Wildfires, drought and extreme heat, 2026

18/08/2026 5368 views 69 likes

Two contrasting views of the countryside around the Serbian capital, Belgrade, captured on 8 August 2026.

Sentinel-3 provides faster data for Europe fires

18/08/2026 1191 views 13 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 2276 views 21 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 3110 views 59 likes

Surface water over South America from HydroGNSS

HydroGNSS data open for new insights into Earth’s water

31/07/2026 3662 views 49 likes

Pacific Ocean salinity June 2026

SMOS salinity could offer early indicator of El Niño

30/07/2026 2449 views 50 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 3114 views 40 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 1556 views 38 likes

FLEX and Sentinel-3 head to launch site

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

16/07/2026 1996 views 41 likes

ESRIN

ESA brings quantum computing to Earth observation

15/07/2026 2004 views 27 likes

MTG-Sounder satellite over the equator

MTG-S1 commissioned and in position for weather forecasting

15/07/2026 1776 views 42 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 2518 views 59 likes

First light from the Hellenic Fire System

Hellenic Fire System achieves first light

07/07/2026 1432 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 2496 views 29 likes

Advancing Earth science

Watch: Earth Explorer 12 User Consultation Meeting

02/07/2026 1019 views 6 likes

Aeolus-2

Authorisation paves the way for Aeolus-2 wind mission

02/07/2026 2042 views 46 likes

Radar vision

Time to say goodbye to Sentinel-1A

30/06/2026 8522 views 80 likes

EarthCARE White Dragon improves weather forecasts

A first: EarthCARE cloud data sharpen weather forecasts

25/06/2026 1732 views 38 likes

Advancing Earth science

Don’t miss the Earth Explorer 12 User Consultation Meeting

18/06/2026 1243 views 15 likes

CO2M spectrometers in the cleanroom

Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite’s instrument passes vac…

17/06/2026 1002 views 24 likes

El Niño 2026 begins

Pacific warming signals El Niño has stirred

15/06/2026 14466 views 60 likes

Urban expansion and flood risk in Hanoi, 2016–2026

Tracking urban expansion in hazard-prone areas

11/06/2026 5280 views 39 likes

Sentinel-1 Next Generation

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

10/06/2026 3090 views 31 likes

Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide concentrations in 2024

Cleaner air and prosperity can go hand in hand

09/06/2026 5109 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 1505 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 8419 views 63 likes

Earth’s stormy heart

Insights into Earth’s molten outer core from space

21/05/2026 8993 views 80 likes

Scout missions

Greenlight for next two ESA Scout missions

20/05/2026 3966 views 56 likes

Cyber-resilience

Enabling & Support

Satellite Evidence in the Courtroom

19/05/2026 970 views 7 likes

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

Earth observation data for the policymaking of tomorrow

08/05/2026 1733 views 14 likes

Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum

Watch live: selected sessions from the ESA CommEO Forum

08/05/2026 832 views 19 likes

Airship over Sodankylä

Putting the ‘super’ into a supersite for Earth observation

06/05/2026 2569 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 3129 views 49 likes

One of Hellenic Fire System satellites

Hellenic Fire System satellites launched for Greece

04/05/2026 3761 views 43 likes

IRIDE reaches new milestone

Italy’s Earth monitoring programme reaches new milestone

04/05/2026 1208 views 12 likes

The Sentinel-1 mission

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

01/05/2026 5870 views 68 likes

Gallery forests of the Angola–DRC borderlands

Stunning images from Biomass mark its one year in orbit

29/04/2026 5544 views 87 likes

Not your normal commute

Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

24/04/2026 2837 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 19549 views 48 likes

Desert locust

Turning data from space into action for Earth

22/04/2026 2897 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 4454 views 59 likes

Salps

Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice transforms marine life

15/04/2026 2943 views 62 likes

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