The 5th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA), held in Munich, brought together a wide community of students, space professionals and enthusiasts, and among them, a very special group: the teams participating in the third and fourth cycles of ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! programme, who gathered at a dedicated Fly Your Satellite! event. The aim was…

From 8–10 April 2026, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), in collaboration with ESA and partners, hosted the 5th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA), marking the largest edition to date, with more than 500 participants.

In the frame of the ESA Academy’s Engagement Programme, ESA Education offers European tertiary education students the opportunity to attend the International Space Education Board’s (ISEB) Student Program in conjunction with the International Astronautical Congress (IAC). This year’s IAC will be held from 5 to 9 October 2026 in Antalya, Turkey.

To mark the first anniversary of the European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite, we present a selection of striking images captured over the past 12 months, revealing Earth’s forests, and much more, in new detail. In just one year, this pioneering mission has begun transforming our understanding of forest dynamics and advancing how scientists monitor the…

ESA’s Education Office is looking for highly motivated Master’s and Ph.D. students in engineering or science disciplines to participate in the fourth edition of the Earth Observation Satellite Systems Design Training Course. This edition of the training course will also include 15 participants from Africa, selected as part of the broader African Union–European Union strategic…

The second edition of the Design Booster programme is approaching its conclusion. As part of this journey, five student teams gathered at ESA ESTEC from 13–17 April 2026 for a key milestone: the Final Design Review (FDR). 

Copernicus Thematic Services: Overview and Data Access (in Spanish) sonia Fri, 24/04/2026 – 13:25 Join our two-day webinar in Spanish on 12 and 13 May 2026, from 16:30 to 18:00 CEST. The webinar will introduce five of the thematic Services of Copernicus, the Earth Observation component of the EU Space Programme, covering how Earth Observation…

As sea ice continues to succumb to the climate crisis, measuring its decline with precision has never been more urgent. To meet this challenge, the European Space Agency is developing three new Copernicus satellites, each employing distinct but complementary techniques to monitor this fragile component of the Earth system. To ensure the data from these…

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image highlights a distinctive cloud formation north of the Canary Islands of Tenerife and La Gomera.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet has been growing since 2020 – and scientists have now identified why. Research funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) looked at factors affecting Antarctica’s delicate environmental dynamics. Despite accelerating loss of ice through glacier melt, exceptionally heavy snowfall in recent years is adding to the mass of the icy continent.