OBSERVER: Designing sponge cities with Copernicus Land sonia Thu, 21/08/2025 – 10:34 Cities are racing to adapt to heavier cloudbursts, rising flood risk, and hotter summers. The sponge city approach treats streets, parks, and waterways as living infrastructure which slows, stores, and cleans rain where it falls, improving liveability and biodiversity while easing pressure on…

Southern Europe is once again in the grip of extreme summer heat. Soaring temperatures and bone-dry land have fuelled widespread wildfires, with the Iberian Peninsula among the regions hardest hit. Flames continue to sweep across parched landscapes, as these images show.

Eumetsat takes control of MetOp-SG-A1 Following launch and early operations, Eumetsat takes over the reins and moves into the commissioning phase

Video: 00:04:21 Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission –  has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time). MetOp-SG-A1 is the first in a series of three successive pairs of satellites. The mission as a whole not…

OBSERVER: How the EU Space Programme supports Search and Rescue – Galileo SAR Meet 2025 sonia Thu, 14/08/2025 – 12:04 From Europe’s highest mountain ranges to the open sea, the EU Space Programme is helping rescuers save lives. Galileo’s Search and Rescue (SAR) service, the European Union’s contribution to the global Cospas-Sarsat network, provides rapid…

Image: The development of ESA’s Earth Explorer FLEX mission has recently passed a significant milestone: the mission’s all-important instrument has been joined to its satellite platform.

Combining 25 years of space-based data with ocean sampling, scientists have uncovered a change in the microscopic organisms that underpin the Southern Ocean’s food chain and carbon storage.

Copernicus soars into new heights with the launch of Sentinel-5A ldhoop Wed, 13/08/2025 – 15:30 Ariane62, carrying the Copernicus EU Sentinel-5A & MetOp-SG A1 to a Sun-Synchronous Orbit at an altitude of around 800 km. Following the launch of Copernicus Sentinel-4A last month, the European Union successfully launched the Copernicus Sentinel-5A to further monitor air…