The second of the Meteosat Third Generation Imagers, MTG-I2, has passed some important milestones in the cleanroom facilities at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, southern France.

This year, take your students’ learning beyond the classroom and into space! Together with the ESERO network, ESA offers a range of interdisciplinary school-level projects designed to engage and inspire students with hands-on activities connecting space to STEM learning. Astro Pi, Moon Camp, CanSat, Climate Detectives, and Mission X launch in September 2025 and will…

Less than three weeks since the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, was launched, this remarkable new satellite has already started transmitting data from two of its cutting-edge instruments, offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s to come.

A new era in Forest and Land Cover Monitoring ldhoop Fri, 29/08/2025 – 15:39 The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) is delighted to invite you to an in-depth webinar on the newly launched Land Cover and Forest Monitoring (LCFM) product suite. This event will take place on 25 September 2025, offering a unique opportunity to…

OBSERVER: The EU Space Programme Explained sonia Thu, 28/08/2025 – 12:42 The European Union’s Space Programme is the first integrated framework of its kind, bringing Europe’s investments in Earth Observation, satellite navigation, and secure connectivity under a unified legislation. From Copernicus data helping to monitor climate change and supporting disaster response, to Galileo signals powering…

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows high concentrations of chlorophyll in yellow-green along the coastline of South Australia, near Adelaide. Chlorophyll-a is a key indicator of the presence of algae in the ocean.

According to the newly released 35th State of the Climate report, 2024 saw record highs in greenhouse gas concentrations, global land and ocean temperatures, sea levels, and ocean heat content. Glaciers also suffered their largest annual ice loss on record. Data records from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative helped underpin these findings.

SUNSHINE First Training Seminar on EU Space Data and Services for Disaster Resilience sonia Fri, 22/08/2025 – 15:29 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…

OBSERVER: Designing sponge cities with Copernicus Land sonia Thu, 21/08/2025 – 10:34 Cities are racing to adapt to heavier cloudbursts, rising flood risk, and hotter summers. The sponge city approach treats streets, parks, and waterways as living infrastructure which slows, stores, and cleans rain where it falls, improving liveability and biodiversity while easing pressure on…

Southern Europe is once again in the grip of extreme summer heat. Soaring temperatures and bone-dry land have fuelled widespread wildfires, with the Iberian Peninsula among the regions hardest hit. Flames continue to sweep across parched landscapes, as these images show.