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…

OBSERVER: 10 years of Copernicus at Frontex – driving innovation and collaboration in border management sonia Wed, 24/09/2025 – 18:29 This year marks a decade since Frontex joined the Copernicus family. Over that time, Earth Observation has become central to Frontex’s support for Member States and Schengen Associated Countries, enabling more effective border surveillance, dismantling…

Gathering datasets about our soil, from the ground, the air and from space, is part of the robust preparation for these two new European satellites set to extend the capabilities of the Copernicus family of Sentinel missions.

After meticulous preparation and rigorous evaluation, ESA’s Member States have selected WIVERN to become the 11th Earth Explorer mission to be implemented through the agency’s prestigious FutureEO programme.

Are you a highly motivated university student in engineering, science, sociology, industrial design or business administration with a strong interest in technology and innovation? The ESA Education Office is looking for university students to participate in the fourth edition of ESA Academy’s Technology Transfer, Application & Innovation Workshop. Developed in close collaboration with the ESA Commercialisation…