Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures the icy landscape of Terra Nova Bay in East Antarctica.

ESA Academy is inviting university students to apply for the Navigation Training Course, taking place from 22 to 26 June 2026 at ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility in ESA ESEC, Belgium. Organized in collaboration with ESA Education and ESA’s Directorate of Navigation, this course is perfect for those curious about the future of satellite…

OBSERVER: How the EU Space Programme is helping shape aviation’s future sonia Wed, 25/02/2026 – 14:32 Through its advanced satellite technologies and space-based systems, the EU Space Programme is transforming how aircraft navigate, communicate, and operate across European airspace and beyond. Innovations from EGNOS, Galileo, Copernicus, and soon IRIS², are changing the way we fly.…

With launch planned for later this year, testing is well underway to ensure the MetOp Second Generation-B1 weather satellite is ready for its life in orbit around Earth. These checks include verifying that its spectacular four-panel, 11-metre-long, solar wing will deploy correctly.

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over south-central Morocco, near the city of Ouarzazate.

OBSERVER: Global Climate Highlights 2025 – Insights from the Copernicus Climate Change Service sonia Thu, 19/02/2026 – 10:46 According to the recently published Global Climate Highlights 2025 report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), global temperatures remained close to historic highs in 2025, making it the third-warmest year on record and reinforcing the persistence…

Each year, the world’s leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites – and the latest report delivers a stark warning: the planet’s energy balance is drifting further out of alignment, ocean warming is now accelerating, and the land’s capacity…

Earth’s river deltas, home to about 5% of the global population and some of the world’s major cities, are experiencing subsidence, which exacerbates the risks from sea-level rise. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has captured a decade’s worth of data showing land sinking faster than previously thought.

Image: For Valentine’s Day, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission sends love from space, capturing the heart-shaped oasis of Faiyum, just south of Cairo, Egypt.