ESA Academy is now accepting applications from university students for the Space Technology and Commercialisation Workshop. Developed in close collaboration with the ESA Commercialisation Department, the workshop will be held at the ESA Academy’s Training & Learning Facility in ESEC, Transinne, Belgium, from 18 to 22 January 2027.

Image: This image of the Venetian Lagoon in northern Italy was acquired by the IRIDE satellites on 17 May 2026.

Are you looking for an engaging way to inspire your students with STEM, design, and the topic of human space exploration? Join Moon Camp 2026-2027, where participants will learn how to design a habitat in space using a design tool of their choice, such as crafting supplies, digital design tools, games, robotics or scientific experiments.

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on 25 August 2026, shows an area of the Andean Altiplano in southern Bolivia near the border with Chile.

From 6 to 24 June 2026, students from the ALEASAT team from the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, Canada, conducted an extensive environmental test campaign at the CubeSat Support Facility, at ESA ESEC Galaxia, Belgium, as part of ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! programme. Over three weeks, the team conducted vibration, thermal-vacuum, thermal…

The European Space Agency has awarded two contracts, one to ICEYE and one to Leonardo, to carry out parallel architecture studies for the EU’s future Earth Observation Governmental Service (EOGS). These activities are funded by the European Commission and are integral part of Element 1 of ESA’s European Resilience from Space for Earth Observation (ERS-EO)…

Looking for a unique, interdisciplinary school project that combines hands-on technology, physics and programming, with a real-world space application? CanSat is the perfect fit for your students!

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…

Video: 00:03:22 ESA’s state-of-the-art 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. Flight VV30 lifted off on 15 September at 03:21 (14 September at 22:21 local time).   FLEX is designed to…