SUNSHINE Webinar sonia Tue, 07/10/2025 – 13:55 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 –…

ESA Academy is pleased to announce the brand-new Rocketry Training Programme, designed for bachelor-level students eager to explore the fundamentals of rocketry and the wider space sector. This hands-on programme combines online theoretical training with an in-person workshop at Machrihanish Airbase (UK), where students will build and launch their own rockets.

Countdown to launch – Copernicus Sentinel-1D lifts off in November sonia Sun, 05/10/2025 – 10:57 2025 is another milestone year for the EU Space Programme. Following the successful expansion of Copernicus with the launch of Sentinel-5A and Sentinel-4A earlier in the year, on 4 November 2025, Sentinel-1D will lift off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou,…

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures an active lava lake on the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island.

OBSERVER: The 9th Edition of the Copernicus Ocean State Report warns that climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution currently affect all ocean basins sonia Thu, 02/10/2025 – 14:32 This year’s edition of the Copernicus Ocean State Report (OSR 9) highlights the deep and widespread links between ongoing ocean change and changes in marine ecosystems, human…

Following its arrival in California a few weeks ago, the time has come for spacecraft engineers to ready the next sea-level monitoring satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-6B, for launch, which is slated for November. The first step has been to carefully remove this precious new satellite from its storage container and to start a series of comprehensive…

As part of the ESA Academy Experiments programme, the Slovenian team CAVE 0g and the German team MVIPER successfully completed their experiments during the 87th ESA parabolic flight campaign in September 2025. Flying aboard Novespace’s Airbus A310 from Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport, the teams tested innovative technologies designed for microgravity. CAVE 0g explored how ultrasonic cavitation drives…

The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) HydroGNSS mission, which will investigate the Earth’s water cycle, has landed in California and is ready to start preparations for launch.

Image: Part of the icy landscape of the Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park in the world, is pictured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image.

In the last few months, ESA Academy has delivered an extraordinary range of training courses and workshops, immersing over three hundred university students from across ESA Member States, Associate Members and Canada in the technical, collaborative, and innovative processes that define modern space missions. From interplanetary exploration and spacecraft testing to CubeSat assembly and space…