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

Launch boosts European Earth monitoring and connectivity

04/05/2026 3196 views 49 likes

One of Hellenic Fire System satellites

Hellenic Fire System satellites launched for Greece

04/05/2026 3968 views 44 likes

IRIDE reaches new milestone

Italy’s Earth monitoring programme reaches new milestone

04/05/2026 1286 views 12 likes

The Sentinel-1 mission

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

01/05/2026 6016 views 69 likes

Gallery forests of the Angola–DRC borderlands

Stunning images from Biomass mark its one year in orbit

29/04/2026 5731 views 87 likes

Not your normal commute

Braving the Arctic for upcoming polar-focused satellites

24/04/2026 2951 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 24309 views 50 likes

Desert locust

Turning data from space into action for Earth

22/04/2026 2991 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 4697 views 59 likes

Salps

Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice transforms marine life

15/04/2026 3065 views 62 likes

ROSE-L radar wing deployment test

ROSE-L radar unfolds in crucial ground test

08/04/2026 2184 views 25 likes

Italy’s IRIDE space programme adds eight satellites

Eight more satellites added to IRIDE space programme

31/03/2026 2454 views 40 likes

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 5993 views 47 likes

MTG-I2 pushed into place for final environmental tests

Next MTG satellite passes final environmental tests

27/03/2026 1140 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 3059 views 49 likes

Mackenzie River

Tracking Arctic freshwater flow from space

23/03/2026 1992 views 34 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite like a bird

OHB Sweden to build Sterna weather constellation

18/03/2026 3016 views 30 likes

CryoSat views a geomagnetic storm

How does an ice satellite detect a geomagnetic storm?

16/03/2026 2955 views 54 likes

HydroGNSS: Scouting for water

ESA’s HydroGNSS on track to scout for water

12/03/2026 1510 views 17 likes

Demagnetising a Hellenic Fire System satellite

Hellenic Fire System moves a step closer to launch

09/03/2026 1349 views 23 likes

Altius to track ozone

Testing ozone-monitoring satellite’s solar wings

03/03/2026 1792 views 21 likes

Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

03/03/2026 5049 views 59 likes

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

First MetOp Second Generation-B satellite spreads its wing

25/02/2026 2743 views 65 likes

Mediterranean Sea heatwaves

Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science

18/02/2026 8519 views 66 likes

Yellow River Delta, China

River deltas are sinking faster than the sea is rising

17/02/2026 3355 views 53 likes

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

Intense rainfall brings floods across Iberian Peninsula

10/02/2026 14286 views 95 likes

Changes in methane concentration 2019–2022

The curious case of why methane spiked around Covid

06/02/2026 7822 views 89 likes

Destination Earth ready for phase 3

Europe’s digital Earth gets ready to grow user community

02/02/2026 2663 views 21 likes

Tibetan Plateau vertical ground displacement

New satellite view of Tibet’s tectonic clash

30/01/2026 12930 views 81 likes

Atmospheric humidity from MTG-Sounder

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

27/01/2026 89827 views 89 likes

Map of forest carbon from ESA’s Biomass mission

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

26/01/2026 14336 views 114 likes

Arctic Weather Satellite in action

Arctic Weather Satellite paves way for constellation

22/01/2026 4224 views 57 likes

Gas flares in Qatar imaged by Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 explores night vision

15/01/2026 12835 views 128 likes

Small clearing in tropical forest

Tiny patches of deforestation drive tropical carbon loss

08/01/2026 3722 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 6701 views 43 likes

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

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

16/12/2025 3635 views 40 likes

Methane from landfill site

Satellites help tackle landfill methane leaks

15/12/2025 6668 views 67 likes

High-energy protons during solar storm over the North Pole

Swarm detects rare proton spike during solar storm

11/12/2025 10221 views 79 likes

ROSE-L set up for acoustic testing

ROSE-L given the shakes

08/12/2025 2724 views 18 likes

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

EarthCARE lifts the clouds on climate models

03/12/2025 5554 views 70 likes

IRIDE’s Eaglet II satellites launched from Vandenberg

Italian mission adds to growing IRIDE space fleet

29/11/2025 3316 views 27 likes

Athens from ICEYE

High-resolution radar satellites launched for Greece

29/11/2025 12369 views 53 likes

HydroGNSS launched to ‘scout’ for water

ESA’s HydroGNSS mission launched to ‘scout’ for water

28/11/2025 4800 views 45 likes

The European Space Agency has signed a letter of intent with Norway to advance the prospect of a new ESA Arctic Space Centre to be hosted in Tromsø.

ESA and Norway explore possibility of Arctic Space Centre

27/11/2025 4181 views 28 likes

HydroGNSS

Watch: HydroGNSS, IRIDE and Greek mission satellites launch

26/11/2025 6395 views 65 likes

Formaldehyde over Africa measured by Sentinel-5A

Sentinel-5 debuts images of atmospheric gases

26/11/2025 6522 views 58 likes

Bremen by Sentinel-1D

Sentinel-1D delivers first images: from Antarctica to Bremen

26/11/2025 29181 views 61 likes

MetOp Second Generation-B1 heads for electromagnetic compatibility tests

Next MetOp Second Generation weather satellite in the spotl…

24/11/2025 1742 views 26 likes

ESA’s Earth from Space exhibit lands in Prague

ESA’s Earth from Space exhibit lands in Prague

18/11/2025 1240 views 17 likes

Climbing high to measure greenhouse gas flux

ESA investigates high-stakes Amazon tipping point

17/11/2025 3780 views 44 likes

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