The World Settlement Footprint (WSF) Tracker, and its dedicated online platform, have been officially released at an event at the World Bank headquarters in Washington DC.

The European Space Agency has awarded the contract to lead the development and build for two Copernicus Sentinel-1 Next Generation satellites to Thales Alenia Space. Building on the success of the current Sentinel-1 mission, the next-generation satellites will ensure the long-term continuity of Europe’s radar Earth observation capabilities while delivering enhanced performance.

To help prepare the next generation of space ssystems engineers, the ESA Education Office is looking for 30 highly motivated and enthusiastic university students to participate in the next Space Systems Engineering Training Course, to be held from 2 to 6 November 2026 in the ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility (TLF) at ESA ESEC in Belgium.

“Turning Technology into Business” is a one-week intensive block seminar jointly organised by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Port of Rotterdam, and Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM), delivered as part of the CEMS Master in International Management curriculum.

For decades, economic growth and fossil-fuel consumption have been tightly intertwined. As cities have expanded, rising prosperity has often been accompanied by worsening air pollution. New research, however, suggests that this relationship is changing – and satellite data are helping to prove it.

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed an agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), hailing a new era of cooperation with the aim of advancing the use of Earth observation data and services for development and impact finance initiatives.

Image: On World Environment Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission brings us an amazing view from space of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, hosting this year’s celebration.

For three days, students stepped into the role of Earth observation scientists at ESA’s Climate Detectives Summit 2026. From 27 to 29 May, 120 secondary school students and their teachers from 21 countries across Europe took part in the event at ESA’s centre for Earth observation, ESRIN, exploring how satellite data, science and technology are…

A foundation model trained on Earth observation data from Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 has been made widely available to researchers, it was announced at a computer industry conference this week in Denver, US.