In June 2025, the ESA Education Office launched an industry mentorship initiative as part of the Fly Your Satellite! Educational Satellites programme, connecting university teams with professionals from the European space industry. Designed with the goal of broadening the student teams theoretical and practical knowledge and fostering their professional maturity, the initiative has now reached…

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures an active lava flow on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion Island.

OBSERVER: Five Copernicus apps transforming climate and atmosphere insights sonia Thu, 09/04/2026 – 10:20 From assessing heat and cold stress to exploring historical climate data and future projections or mapping methane plumes and monitoring major aerosol events, a range of user-friendly digital tools from Copernicus is delivering climate and air-quality intelligence to users worldwide. Building…

In February 2026, three new student teams were selected by the ESA Academy Experiments Programme Selection Panel to participate in the current cycle of the programme. Their projects tackle key challenges for future space missions, from understanding fluid behaviour in weightlessness to developing autonomous robotic capture methods and advancing cooperative spacecraft operations. Students will have…

An important milestone has been reached in developing the upcoming Copernicus Radar Observing System for Europe in L-band satellite, known as ROSE-L. Engineers have tested the deployment of a structural model of its huge radar antenna – a key step towards preparing this new satellite for launch and its mission to monitor Earth’s land, oceans…

After more than a year of design, testing and development, dozens of European university students gathered in March to enact the final stage of their experimental projects in the REXUS 35 and 36 campaign. For two weeks, these students utilised the Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden to prepare and launch their various experiments on…

On 6 April 2026, NASA’s Artemis II Mission, powered by ESA’s European Service Module (ESM), brought humans further than ever before.  But how do future astronauts train to live on the Moon, and what kind of lunar base could they create? That’s where school students like you can come in!

ESA Academy is organising the five-day Spacecraft Testing Workshop. The workshop will take place from 31 August to 4 September 2026 at ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility in ESA’s European Space Security and Education Centre (ESEC), Belgium.

Image: In an unusual perspective for an Earth-observing satellite, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures this image of Earth’s only natural satellite.

OBSERVER: Record-breaking 2025 fire season in the EU — insights from the Copernicus Emergency Management Service sonia Thu, 02/04/2026 – 13:42 The European Commission has adopted a new Communication calling for a more integrated EU-wide approach to wildfire risk management, covering prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. The strategy comes as the newly published Advance report…