Image: A thick plume of sand and dust from the Sahara Desert is seen in these satellite images blowing from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean.

OBSERVER: Five highlights from EU Space Days 2025 evan Thu, 05/06/2025 – 12:23 EU Space Days 2025 brought the European space community to Gdańsk for two packed days of discussion and inspiration. Organised by the European Commission under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU, and held alongside InfoShare, the region’s…

The Meteosat Third Generation Sounder satellite (MTG-S) will generate a completely new type of data product, especially suited to nowcasting severe weather events. Here are five ways in which Europe’s latest weather satellite will change how we forecast weather.

Behind the SKYWALKER project is a group of ten passionate students from Aalborg University, brought together by a shared enthusiasm for space exploration, robotics, and the possibilities of reinforcement learning. 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…

After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. Braving everything from wild storms to calm near-freezing seas, students aboard mastered techniques for collecting ocean measurements and harnessed satellite data to unlock insights into our blue planet.…

From its vantage point outside Earth’s atmosphere, more than 36 000 km above Earth’s surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission will detect major air pollutants over Europe in unprecedented detail. It will observe how they vary on an hourly basis – a real breakthrough for air quality forecasting.

Image: The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has captured a dramatic image of Mount Etna erupting on 2 June 2025 when a massive plume of ash, gas and rock suddenly burst from Europe’s largest active volcano.

COPINE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY “Beat Plastic Pollution” sonia Tue, 03/06/2025 – 12:56 COPINE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAYThursday, June 5 · 10:00 – 11:00amTime zone: Africa/LagosGoogle Meet joining infoVideo call link: https://meet.google.com/ppa-cwfd-rnb The Advanced Space Technology Application Laboratory, (COPINE), South-west, Nigeria, in partnership with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and European Union Space Networks wishes to extend…