Image: Part of the Italian island of Sardinia is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

In an era where sustainable access to space is more critical than ever, the European Space Agency (ESA) Academy and the Fly Your Satellite! programme are not only leading efforts to clean up Earth’s orbit — they are also investing in the people who will carry that mission forward. To gain a deeper understanding of…

OBSERVER: How Copernicus supports EU policies for urban climate adaptation evan Thu, 08/05/2025 – 13:40 As European cities grapple with increasingly frequent and intense climate extremes, the need for data and models to support the design of timely, targeted adaptation has never been clearer. But how can policymakers translate Earth Observation (EO) data into meaningful…

International Competition “Ecoview” for Students Aged 14–18 sonia Thu, 08/05/2025 – 10:58 The Laboratory of GIS and Remote Sensing of the National Centre “Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,” a member of the Copernicus Academy, is organising the international competition “Ecoview” for students aged 14 to 18 years. By participating in the competition, students will…

The V-STARS team is an all-women group of passionate, aspiring scientists interested in understanding how human performance can be supported in altered gravity environments. As part of the ESA Academy Experiments Programme, the team will have the opportunity to carry out their experiment in the frictionless environment of the Orbital Robotics Lab (ORL), at ESA…

Thanks largely to Copernicus Sentinel-1, scientists have discovered that a glacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from neighbouring flows – at a pace never before seen. Until now, researchers believed that this process of ‘ice piracy’ in Antarctica took hundreds or even thousands of years, but these latest findings clearly demonstrate that this isn’t…

Fresh from the cleanroom in Bremen, Germany, the second of the Meteosat Third Generation satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission have arrived at Cape Canaveral harbour, in the US.