Image: Part of the icy landscape of the Northeast Greenland National Park, the largest national park in the world, is pictured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image.

In the last few months, ESA Academy has delivered an extraordinary range of training courses and workshops, immersing over three hundred university students from across ESA Member States, Associate Members and Canada in the technical, collaborative, and innovative processes that define modern space missions. From interplanetary exploration and spacecraft testing to CubeSat assembly and space…

OBSERVER: 10 years of Copernicus at Frontex – driving innovation and collaboration in border management sonia Wed, 24/09/2025 – 18:29 This year marks a decade since Frontex joined the Copernicus family. Over that time, Earth Observation has become central to Frontex’s support for Member States and Schengen Associated Countries, enabling more effective border surveillance, dismantling…

Gathering datasets about our soil, from the ground, the air and from space, is part of the robust preparation for these two new European satellites set to extend the capabilities of the Copernicus family of Sentinel missions.

After meticulous preparation and rigorous evaluation, ESA’s Member States have selected WIVERN to become the 11th Earth Explorer mission to be implemented through the agency’s prestigious FutureEO programme.

Are you a highly motivated university student in engineering, science, sociology, industrial design or business administration with a strong interest in technology and innovation? The ESA Education Office is looking for university students to participate in the fourth edition of ESA Academy’s Technology Transfer, Application & Innovation Workshop. Developed in close collaboration with the ESA Commercialisation…

Take your students on an exciting learning journey where the thrill of human space exploration meets health and nutrition. Join the Mission X 2025-2026 school-level project and challenge your students to train like real astronauts, combining physical activity with scientific discovery.

Hidden beneath the biggest ice mass on Earth, hundreds of subglacial lakes form a crucial part of Antarctica’s icy structure, affecting the movement and stability of glaciers, and consequentially influencing global sea level rise. Thanks to a decade of data from the European Space Agency’s CryoSat satellite, researchers have identified 85 previously unknown lakes several…

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures a cloud-free view over the island of Komodo in southeastern Indonesia.