The European Space Agency’s HydroGNSS, a twin-satellite mission to gather data on Earth’s water cycle, is scheduled to launch on 19 November at 19:18 CET (10:18 Pacific Time). Live coverage of the launch will be shown on ESA Web TV.

For decades, the Amazon rainforest has quietly absorbed vast quantities of human-generated carbon dioxide, helping to slow the pace of climate change. Recent evidence, however, suggests that this vital natural buffer may be weakening – though uncertainties remain. To help close this critical knowledge gap, European and Brazilian researchers have gathered deep in the Amazon…

Video: 00:02:09 Copernicus Sentinel-6B was launched on 17 November 2025, ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change. The satellite was carried into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US. Sentinel-6B follows in the…

The latest guardian of our oceans has taken its place in orbit. The Copernicus Sentinel-6B satellite is now circling Earth, ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change.

Video: 00:01:45 Copernicus Sentinel-6B was launched on 17 November 2025, ready to continue a decades-long mission to track the height of the planet’s seas – a key measure of climate change. The satellite was carried into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US. Sentinel-6B follows in the…

Image: Sentinel-6B rolls out to the launch pad

Image: This very high-resolution image captures the beautiful medieval core of the Czech capital, Prague.

Following the success of previous editions, ESA’s Education Office, in collaboration with ESA’s Legal Services Department, is once again organising the five-day Introduction to Space Law Training Course. The fourth edition of this course will take place in-person from 2 to 6 March 2026 at ESA Academy’s Training and Learning Facility in ESA’s European Space…

As the COP30 climate conference gets underway in Brazil, the world’s attention is once again drawn to the plight of the Amazon – the planet’s largest and most vital rainforest. With the European Space Agency’s Earth Explorer Biomass satellite now in orbit, ESA is helping Brazil prepare to transform this new mission’s groundbreaking data into…

Video: 00:49:31 Copernicus Sentinel-6B, a sea-level monitoring satellite, is due to be launched no earlier than 17 November. Officials from ESA, the European Commission, EUMETSAT, NASA and marine applications users are set to share the latest information about this exciting mission and to be on-hand to answer questions.