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The outcomes of ESA's Ministerial Council were announced at a press conference in Bremen on 27 November.

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ESA’s Ministerial Council in Bremen

ESA directors at Ministerial Council in Bremen

Cooperation agreement for the development of a space hub on the Santa Maria island of the Azores

ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher presents his proposal on the first day of the ESA Ministerial Council.

In Bremen during CM25, the European Investment Bank announced Space TechEU, its first dedicated financing programme for the European space sector.

The first images from the recently launched Sentinel-1D and Sentinel-5 were presented at CM25 by European Commissioner Andrius Kubilius and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher.

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.

Director of ESA Josef Aschbacher and Minister of Trade and Industry Cecilie Myrseth signing the letter of intent for Arctic Space Centre during the ministerial meeting CM25 taking place in Bremen Germany.

Ministers and high-level representatives gather for ESA's Ministerial Council

European Commissioner Andrius Kubilius is greeted by Dorothee Bär, Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space, Germany and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher.

Josef Aschbacher introduces the ESA Director General's proposal to CM25

Ministers and high-level representatives for ESA's Ministerial Council.

ESA Council at Delegate level meets in Bremen on the eve of CM25.

Delegates from ESA's Member States met in Bremen on the eve of CM25.

Satellite data gives new insights into our home planet.

A glimpse of the environment at ESA's Ministerial Council.

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This image, captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 18 January 2026, shows clouds of smoke from wildfires on the coast of Chile.

Coronal Mass Ejection erupts from the Sun on 18 January 2026

Helix Nebula (NIRCam image)

Proba-3: our eyes on the Sun’s inner corona

The Artemis II rocket was rolled out to its launch pad.

Sophie Adenot exercising on E4D

This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over the South Atlantic Ocean features a close-up view of the A23a iceberg, once the world’s largest. The unusually cloud-free image shows the first signs that the iceberg will soon disintegrate completely.

Sentinel-2A night imaging campaign

Wildfires in Patagonia

Circinus Galaxy (Hubble and Webb)

ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot training on EchoFinder‑2.

Clearing of tropical forest in Peru 1995–2020

Ice velocity on Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, 2014–2024

This image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on 6 January 2026, shows Amsterdam in the Netherlands blanketed in snow.

Scientists identify 'Astronomy’s Platypus' with Webb

Sextans A PAHs pull-out (NIRCam and MIRI image)

Mars Express sees sandblasted wind sculptures near Eumenides Dorsum

Tree planting for εpsilon

Location of Cloud-9

A neighbouring vista of stellar birth

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Antarctic Peninsula by Sentinel-1D

Global ozone measured by Sentinel-5A

Bolivian forest: comparing Sentinel-2 and Biomass

Solar corona viewed by Proba-3’s ASPIICS

Svalbard, Norway, seen from Sentinel-1C

Hera's first images (Asteroid Framing Camera - Earth)

Arctic Weather Satellite’s first images capture Storm Boris

Seville from Copernicus Sentinel-2C

Vertical distribution of cloud particle concentration

Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies

Full Earth disc from the Meteosat Third Generation Imager

Didymos and Dimorphos seen by DART

Webb’s first deep field

Mercury first impressions

First sea-level height results from Copernicus Sentinel-6

The density of stars from Gaia’s Early Data Release 3

Venus setting

Solar Orbiter’s first views of the Sun

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