The European Astro Pi Challenge is an ESA Education project run in collaboration with the Raspberry Pi Foundation and delivered nationally by the European Space Education Resource Offices (ESERO). We are delighted to announce that registration for Astro Pi Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab is now officially open for the 2025–2026 challenge.

EIRSAT-1, developed by a team of students and staff at University College Dublin through ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! programme, has made history as Ireland’s first satellite. Over more than six years of work, the mission grew from an ambitious proposal into a fully-fledged spaceflight success story – and an educational inspiration. With a long list…

The second of the Meteosat Third Generation Imagers, MTG-I2, has passed some important milestones in the cleanroom facilities at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, southern France.

This year, take your students’ learning beyond the classroom and into space! Together with the ESERO network, ESA offers a range of interdisciplinary school-level projects designed to engage and inspire students with hands-on activities connecting space to STEM learning. Astro Pi, Moon Camp, CanSat, Climate Detectives, and Mission X launch in September 2025 and will…

Less than three weeks since the first MetOp Second Generation weather satellite, MetOp-SG-A1, was launched, this remarkable new satellite has already started transmitting data from two of its cutting-edge instruments, offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s to come.

A new era in Forest and Land Cover Monitoring ldhoop Fri, 29/08/2025 – 15:39 The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) is delighted to invite you to an in-depth webinar on the newly launched Land Cover and Forest Monitoring (LCFM) product suite. This event will take place on 25 September 2025, offering a unique opportunity to…

OBSERVER: The EU Space Programme Explained sonia Thu, 28/08/2025 – 12:42 The European Union’s Space Programme is the first integrated framework of its kind, bringing Europe’s investments in Earth Observation, satellite navigation, and secure connectivity under a unified legislation. From Copernicus data helping to monitor climate change and supporting disaster response, to Galileo signals powering…

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows high concentrations of chlorophyll in yellow-green along the coastline of South Australia, near Adelaide. Chlorophyll-a is a key indicator of the presence of algae in the ocean.

According to the newly released 35th State of the Climate report, 2024 saw record highs in greenhouse gas concentrations, global land and ocean temperatures, sea levels, and ocean heat content. Glaciers also suffered their largest annual ice loss on record. Data records from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative helped underpin these findings.

SUNSHINE First Training Seminar on EU Space Data and Services for Disaster Resilience sonia Fri, 22/08/2025 – 15:29 Are you involved in civil protection or emergency response activities? Would you like to improve how your organisation prepares for and manages disasters using EU Space data and services? The SUNSHINE project, which is developed under the guidance…