Since the second Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2) began its launch campaign last month, it has undergone rigorous pre-launch inspections that ensure the electronic and mechanical systems are working correctly. How does a team of experts, including scientists, engineers, launch coordinators and mission operation specialists, ensure everything is running smoothly behind the scenes, both…

AGH Space Systems team from the AGH University of Kraków has completed a vibration test campaign for its GraviTE experiment at ESA Academy’s CubeSat Support Facility, gaining hands-on experience while assessing how the Engineering Model responds to mechanical loads representative of its journey to the International Space Station.

Europe’s forests are losing more biomass than previously thought, with disturbances such as drought and pests causing increasingly large losses from some of the oldest forests in Europe. This situation has deteriorated markedly since 2018.

The European Space Agency’s two-satellite HydroGNSS Scout mission has completed commissioning and is now in full scientific operations. Following extensive testing and validation of the satellites, instruments and ground segment, HydroGNSS data are now freely available to users worldwide, opening new opportunities to advance our understanding of water availability and the impacts of climate change…

Image: This colourful radar image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission features New Orleans and the delta of the Mississippi River, one the largest rivers in North America.

As the Pacific Ocean moves into an El Niño phase, scientists are monitoring changes in sea-surface temperature, but also sea-surface salinity – which is another key indicator of this phenomenon. Measurements from satellites such as the European Space Agency’s SMOS mission are revealing how freshwater and salt patterns shift across the Pacific as this year’s…

More than one month on from the catastrophic twin earthquakes in northern Venezuela on 24 June 2026, satellite data show the ground displacement was greater than first estimated.

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, captured on 26 July, shows a zoomed-in view over ESA’s Cebreros ground station, which lies within the areas heavily affected by the wildfires in Spain.