The Swedish-German REXUS/BEXUS programme has selected a new group of student teams for the next flight campaign. These teams will have the opportunity to design and develop their own experiments for launch on a stratospheric balloon or a sounding rocket.

45th EARSeL Symposium – Call for Abstracts is open sonia Thu, 18/12/2025 – 10:42 The abstract submission is open for the 45th EARSeL Symposium When:                29 September – 02 October 2026Where:              Athens, Greece The Symposium will include 7 workshops and 18 special sessions. Please visit the Symposium website  for more information on the venue and…

2026 GEO Symposium / GEO-21 Plenary sonia Thu, 18/12/2025 – 09:29 Registration is now open for the 2026 GEO Symposium and GEO-21 Plenary, which will take place 26–28 May 2026 in Geneva, Switzerland.  Held under the theme “Investing in Earth Intelligence for a Resilient Future,” the 2026 GEO Symposium and GEO-21 Plenary will convene governments, space agencies, research…

Ten years ago in a galaxy not far away… well, this one actually. Today marks the 10th anniversary of the European Astro Pi Challenge!

The ESA/ELGRA Gravity-Related Research Summer School offers a comprehensive overview of microgravity and hypergravity research. Hosted by ESA’s Education Office and the European Low Gravity Research Association (ELGRA), the next edition will take place from 15 to 26 June 2026, combining one week of onsite activities with one week of online learning. The Summer School…

Copernicus Sentinel-6B, launched last month, has reached its orbit and delivered its first set of data, which show variations in sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean. This data underlines how the mission will continue to strengthen the long-term reference record of sea levels, a key parameter of climate change.

Satellites are emerging as a powerful new tool in the fight to curb emissions of methane. While methane is much shorter-lived in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is vastly more potent at trapping heat, which makes rapid cuts essential for slowing warming in the short term. The same satellite technology that has transformed methane…

Image: Following International Mountain Day, which creates awareness of the importance of mountain environments around the world, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Pariacaca Mountain Range in Peru.

As part of the ESA Academy Experiments Programme, Team V-STARS carried out the first experiment with human participants in the Orbital Robotics Lab, investigating how microgravity affects the perception of verticality.