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For over a decade, mission control teams at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) have successfully commissioned and operated most of the Sentinel fleet of satellites. This week, in preparation of the coming launch of Sentinel-1D, mission controllers have begun the simulations of the critical ‘launch and early orbit phase’.

The Lunar Technologies AGH student team from AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków, Poland, has successfully completed environmental testing of their lunar payload, Lunaris, at the ESA’s CubeSat Support Facility (CSF) in Belgium.

Image: First view of aerosols from MetOp Second Generation’s 3MI instrument

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Image: Part of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia is featured in this image, captured by the Φsat-2 mission in June 2025.

The fourth satellite for the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, Sentinel-1D, has arrived at Félix Eboué airport, the main airport in French Guiana. From there the spacecraft, safely stored in its protective casing, will be transported to launch preparation facilities at the European Spaceport in Kourou.

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OBSERVER: How Copernicus supports news coverage sonia Thu, 11/09/2025 – 09:24 Satellites provide a unique vantage point from above, enabling unparalleled observation of global events. Whether monitoring floods using radar data or providing insights into deforestation through optical imagery, the Copernicus Sentinel missions are instrumental in capturing the state of our planet in remarkable detail.…

The TRACE student team from TU Darmstadt University, Germany, has been selected for the October 2025 test window of ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities programme. This selection follows a call for proposals that closed in June 2025, with evaluations conducted by Fly Your Satellite! experts and operators from the CubeSat Support Facility. This marks…