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Earth from Space: Singing dunes and mysterious lakes
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China.
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Teams selected for the March 2026 test window
Following a call for proposals launched in September 2025, TRACE team from TU Darmstadt Space Technology and GIFTS team from University College Dublin have been selected for the March 2026 test window of ESA’s Fly Your Satellite! Test Opportunities programme. The proposal evaluation and selection were carried out by Fly Your Satellite! experts and CubeSat…
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Webinar AfrHySpace – African Space Hydrology Capacity Building Workshop
Webinar AfrHySpace – African Space Hydrology Capacity Building Workshop FlorianZedek Wed, 03/12/2025 – 19:03 As part of the African Space Hydrology Capacity Building Workshop, a special webinar will be held on the 5th of December 2025 online. Focus on a key project aimed at strengthening capacity in space hydrology and improving water management in Africa…
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EarthCARE lifts the clouds on climate models
True to its promise, the European Space Agency’s EarthCARE satellite is now being used to calculate directly how clouds and aerosols influence Earth’s energy balance – the all-important balance that regulates our climate. In doing so, EarthCARE is poised to sharpen the accuracy of climate models, the very tools that guide global climate policy and…
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OBSERVER: Seven things we learned from the UN World Urbanization Prospects
OBSERVER: Seven things we learned from the UN World Urbanization Prospects enora@ALSOcons… Wed, 03/12/2025 – 10:01 Urbanisation is reshaping the world at a pace which has surpassed earlier expectations, altering how people live and how societies plan for housing, transport, and essential services. A new analysis from the UN World Urbanization Prospects 2025, drawing on…
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Flooding in Sri Lanka
Image: Puttalam district in North Western Sri Lanka is currently facing severe flooding, landslides and rockfalls, caused by heavy monsoon rains across the region. Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured an image over the region yesterday, 30 November 2025, as well an image one month ago, showing the extent of flooding.
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Italian mission adds to growing IRIDE space fleet
The Italian programme IRIDE, which provides public sector services based on data from its fleet of Earth observation constellations, has added eight satellites to its second constellation, Eaglet II.
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High-resolution radar satellites launched for Greece
Thanks to the EU-funded Recovery and Resilience Facility, and through collaboration between the Greek government, the private satellite company ICEYE and the European Space Agency (ESA), two new high-resolution radar satellites have been launched to strengthen disaster management, environmental monitoring and national security across Greece.
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ESA’s HydroGNSS mission launched to ‘scout’ for water
The European Space Agency’s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched today, 28 November, marking a significant step in advancing global understanding of water availability and the effects of climate change on Earth’s water cycle. The two twin HydroGNSS satellites were carried into orbit at 19:44 CET aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as part of…
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Replay: HydroGNSS launch coverage
Video: 01:45:00 ESA’s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched on 28 November 2025, marking a significant step in advancing global understanding of water availability and the effects of climate change on Earth’s water cycle. The two twin HydroGNSS satellites were carried into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base…
