From 8 to 11 December, ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility in Belgium hosted the pilot edition of the Disruptive Innovation and Commercialisation in Earth Observation Training Course. Organized in collaboration with ESA Φ-lab, this first edition brought together 30 Master’s and PhD students from 16 different nationalities, creating a vibrant and diverse learning environment.

CLMS General Assembly FlorianZedek Tue, 13/01/2026 – 12:07  CLMS General Assembly 2026!  Following the presidency, this year’s location will be Cyprus, at the Grecian Park Hotel! The event is planned for 28–29 April, followed by the third National Collaboration Programme (NCP) General Assembly and the Global Network of Users (GNU) meeting on 30 April 2026.…

SUNSHINE Technical Webinar [Registrations open] sonia Fri, 09/01/2026 – 15:07 SUNSHINE is an EU-funded project coordinated by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS). It aims to strengthen disaster resilience across Europe by facilitating the uptake of EU Space Programme data and services - such as Copernicus EMS, Galileo EWSS, SSA, and GOVSATCOM - within civil protection…

SUNSHINE 4th Training Seminar [applications open] sonia Fri, 09/01/2026 – 15:03 Are you involved in civil protection or emergency response activities? Would you like to improve how your organisation prepares for and manages disasters using EU Space data and services? The SUNSHINE project, which is developed under the guidance of the European Commission’s DG DEFIS and in partnership…

SUNSHINE 3rd Training Seminar [applications open] sonia Fri, 09/01/2026 – 15:00 Are you involved in civil protection or emergency response activities? Would you like to improve how your organisation prepares for and manages disasters using EU Space data and services? The SUNSHINE project, which is developed under the guidance of the European Commission’s DG DEFIS and in partnership…

SUNSHINE 2nd Training Seminar [applications open] sonia Fri, 09/01/2026 – 14:47 Are you involved in civil protection or emergency response activities? Would you like to improve how your organisation prepares for and manages disasters using EU Space data and services? The SUNSHINE project, which is developed under the guidance of the European Commission’s DG DEFIS and in partnership…

Often called Earth’s green lungs, tropical forests pull down massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, release oxygen and help regulate the global climate. While the threat of large-scale deforestation is well known, new findings reveal a surprising culprit – the clearance of small areas of forest accounts for more than half of net…

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

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea – an important dynamic for climate and sea-rise modelling – has been captured over a 10-year period by satellites from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.

As part of the ESA Academy Experiments programme, the GRASP student team from Sapienza University of Rome tested a robotic arm fitted with a gecko-inspired adhesive gripper under microgravity-like conditions. The test campaign took place in November 2025 at ESA ESTEC’s Orbital Robotics Lab. The experiment aims to advance technologies for active debris removal and spacecraft docking operations.