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Amazon rainforest

ESA satellites track progress on Paris Agreement goals

07/11/2025 2536 views 23 likes

HydroGNSS satellite twins ready for launch

ESA’s HydroGNSS Scout satellites ready for launch

06/11/2025 2702 views 36 likes

Sentinel-1D lifts off on Ariane 6

Sentinel-1D reaches orbit on Ariane 6

04/11/2025 12522 views 45 likes

Sentinel-1D about to meet rocket

Sentinel-1D and Ariane 6 ready for liftoff

03/11/2025 5907 views 15 likes

Sentinel-1C interferogram of northern Chile

Sentinel-1 mission… did you know?

03/11/2025 1952 views 34 likes

Earthquake damage

AI challenge advances satellite-based disaster mapping

29/10/2025 2296 views 34 likes

Ariane 6 fairing release revealing Sentinel-1D

Watch live: Sentinel-1D launch on Ariane 6

28/10/2025 21216 views 137 likes

FutureEO: pioneering Earth observation for a better world

FutureEO at ESA’s Ministerial Council 2025

23/10/2025 3227 views 32 likes

First image of nitrogen dioxide from Sentinel-4

Sentinel-4 offers first glimpses of air pollutants

21/10/2025 12533 views 103 likes

Sentinel-1D fuelled in Kourou

Sentinel-1D fuelled and ready for encapsulation

20/10/2025 2088 views 41 likes

South Atlantic Anomaly 2025 compared to 2014

Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field

13/10/2025 83954 views 281 likes

Sea state

Satellites reveal the power of ocean swell

08/10/2025 5702 views 57 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-1D team in Kourou

Sentinel-1D preparations underway in Kourou

08/10/2025 2543 views 32 likes

In September, mission controllers at ESA's mission control centre started a major simulations exercise to ensure that the next Copernicus Sentinel Earth Observation mission, Sentinel-6B, safely navigates its first days in space.

Enabling & Support

Rehearsing for Sentinel-6B’s early days in space

08/10/2025 1454 views 18 likes

Sentinel-6B ready to start its launch campaign

Sea-level monitoring satellite unboxed

01/10/2025 3441 views 22 likes

HydroGNSS

HydroGNSS: ESA’s first Scout begins launch preparations

29/09/2025 1859 views 21 likes

Radar images of Puch in X, C, S and L bands

Measuring soil from the sky for ROSE-L and CHIME

24/09/2025 1194 views 12 likes

WIVERN

ESA selects WIVERN as 11th Earth Explorer mission

23/09/2025 7344 views 92 likes

Antarctic subglacial lake inventory

85 new subglacial lakes detected below Antarctica

19/09/2025 9953 views 85 likes

Simulations ongoing for Sentinel-1D

Enabling & Support

“We know the drill”: Sentinel-1D begins streamlined simulat…

16/09/2025 1189 views 19 likes

Unloading Sentinel-1D

Sentinel-1D in French Guiana for launch campaign

11/09/2025 4641 views 35 likes

Second MTG-Imager in the thermal vacuum chamber

Second MTG-Imager satellite passes thermal vacuum test

04/09/2025 2316 views 38 likes

First glimpse of MetOp-SG-A1 Microwave Sounder data

New MetOp Second Generation weather satellite returns first…

02/09/2025 10152 views 73 likes

Soil moisture anomalies over 2024 compared to 1991–2020

ESA data records help underpin climate change report

25/08/2025 3255 views 63 likes

Iberian fires August 2025

Iberian wildfires seen from space

20/08/2025 11343 views 64 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite small but perfectly formed

ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite adds power to forecasts

18/08/2025 4431 views 65 likes

Penguins resting on Antarctic sea ice

Tracking the climate-driven shift in Antarctic plankton fro…

13/08/2025 3239 views 56 likes

MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 take to the skies

First MetOp-SG and Sentinel-5 launched

13/08/2025 8782 views 51 likes

MetOp Second Generation A-type satellite

Watch: MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 launch

06/08/2025 13319 views 83 likes

Encapsulating MetOp-SG-A1 satellite in Ariane 6 fairing

First MetOp-SG satellite sealed within Ariane 6 fairing

05/08/2025 4181 views 54 likes

Global map of vegetation optical depth, 2018

SMOS adds long-term view on carbon stored in forests

01/08/2025 3019 views 53 likes

European forests

A troubling shift in Europe’s forest carbon balance

30/07/2025 2232 views 9 likes

Harder Glacier, northern Greenland

Greenland subglacial flood bursts through ice sheet surface

30/07/2025 5965 views 42 likes

Fuelling MetOp-SG-A1

First MetOp Second Generation satellite fuelled

24/07/2025 2737 views 32 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-6B on route to launch site

Sea-level monitoring satellite Sentinel-6B sets sail

23/07/2025 3554 views 34 likes

MetOp Second Generation A-type satellite

Watch: MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 media briefing

23/07/2025 2075 views 39 likes

Teamwork for LEOP at Fucino for Meteosat Third Generation sounder satellite

Another milestone for the future of European weather observ…

21/07/2025 2538 views 27 likes

ALTIUS satellite platform in the cleanroom

ALTIUS ozone mission’s satellite platform assembled

17/07/2025 1581 views 32 likes

Φsat-2 view of Bahia Blanca Estuary in Argentina

Φsat-2 begins science phase for AI Earth images

15/07/2025 3514 views 45 likes

Southern Ocean sea ice

Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes

04/07/2025 4835 views 53 likes

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 take to the skies

MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch to change how we see our atmos…

02/07/2025 6260 views 38 likes

MTG-S1 hosting Sentinel-4 encapsulation family photo

MTG-S1 satellite hosting the Sentinel-4 instrument is ready…

30/06/2025 3726 views 45 likes

Arriving at Living Planet Symposium

Living Planet Symposium highlights in pictures

27/06/2025 3400 views 18 likes

Land-surface temperature in Nevada and California

Living Planet Symposium Extra News: Day 5

27/06/2025 1499 views 17 likes

Atmospheric hot flush during a solar storm

Swarm in tune with atmospheric hot flushes

27/06/2025 1139 views 34 likes

Harmonising ERS scatterometer data

Living Planet Symposium Extra News: Day 4

26/06/2025 1322 views 12 likes

The global ocean conveyor belt

New ESA gravity mission to detect weakening ocean conveyor

26/06/2025 5447 views 47 likes

Artist's impression of MTG-S1 with Copernicus Sentinel-4 inside Falcon 9 launcher

Watch MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch live

26/06/2025 14915 views 115 likes

Fire driving deforestation

Satellite records expose fire driving Gran Chaco transforma…

26/06/2025 2513 views 36 likes

ESA–JAXA Framework Agreement signature

Living Planet Symposium Extras News: Day 3

25/06/2025 1258 views 11 likes

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