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26 OCT. 2026

Ice mission CRISTAL opens its wings

With its solar arrays integrated and key qualification reviews under way, Europe’s new ice-monitoring satellite, CRISTAL, is moving from assembly into the demanding testing phase that will demonstrate its readiness for the rigours of launch and life in orbit.

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08 OCT. 2026

Sentinel-3C returns its first views of Earth

Just two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from two of its key instruments.

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[ FutureEO ]

16 SEP. 2026

Faster-flowing glaciers fuel decades of polar ice loss

The longest satellite data record of ice-sheet change ever assembled has revealed that Greenland and Antarctica have lost a staggering 11 trillion tonnes of ice since the 1970s, driving global sea level up by more than three centimetres.However, the new findings also highlight that the story is not simply one of ice melting at the surface. The glaciers that drain these vast ice sheets are also flowing faster, channelling enormous quantities of ice directly into the ocean.

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[ Earth Observation Programmes ]

15 SEP. 2026

FLEX and Sentinel-3C launched

The European Space Agency’s FLEX Earth Explorer satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite have been launched together aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a new milestone in Europe’s Earth Observation Programmes.

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30 OCT. 2026

Earth from Space: Champi’s eerie eye

This week’s Earth from Space is an image of Super Typhoon Champi from Copernicus Sentinel-3, captured on 21 October 2026, and taken off the coasts of Taiwan and the Philippines.

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