The European Space Agency’s innovative Biomass satellite is now fully commissioned, opening free access to a powerful new stream of data that promise a step change in our understanding of forest dynamics and their role in regulating the global carbon cycle.

CLMS Webinar: Urban Atlas — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service leo.concepcion Mon, 26/01/2026 – 11:53 On 10 February 2026, the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) will host an introductory webinar for Urban Atlas. The product provides detailed land cover and land use information for 790 Functional Urban Areas across Europe, with significant applications for sustainable urban…

VeneTo Stars Challenge 2026 sonia Fri, 23/01/2026 – 16:43 After the great success of the previous editions, the Digital Agenda Team of the Veneto Region are pleased to announce the theme of VeneTo Stars 2026, a European challenge for innovative ideas based on Space-derived data and technologies applied to the Agrifood sector. Young innovators, students…

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us at the Brazilian-Bolivian border over part of the Pantanal region, a unique ecosystem, home to an impressive variety of plants and wildlife.

Already recognised for its excellence and even adopted for operational weather forecasting, the European Space Agency’s Arctic Weather Satellite has now fulfilled its most important role. This small prototype mission has succeeded in paving the way for a new constellation of similar satellites, known as EPS-Sterna.

OBSERVER: From space to civil protection – How SUNSHINE supports disaster resilience in Europe sonia Wed, 21/01/2026 – 15:24 Europe’s risk landscape is changing rapidly, with climate-driven hazards and complex crises placing increasing demands on civil protection authorities. As disasters become more frequent, intense and cross-border by nature, the ability to anticipate events, efficiently prepare,…

AcubeSAT is a student-led space biology mission developed by SpaceDot, a multidisciplinary team formed mostly by students of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. As part of ESA’s Fly You Satellite! programme, the team conducted a radiation test campaign at ESA ESTEC to help prepare their CubeSat for the harsh space environment. This milestone marks…

Image: This image, captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 18 January 2026, shows clouds of smoke from wildfires on the coast of Chile.

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image over the South Atlantic Ocean features a close-up view of the A23a iceberg, once the world’s largest. The unusually cloud-free image shows the first signs that the iceberg will soon disintegrate completely.