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TRACE student team selected for the October 2025 Fly Your Satellite! test window
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…
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Registration is open for the 2025–2026 European Astro Pi Challenge!
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.
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EIRSAT-1: One small satellite, one giant leap for Irish spaceflight!
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…
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Second MTG-Imager satellite passes thermal vacuum test
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.
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Back to School 2025-2026: 5 projects to inspire your students
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…
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New MetOp Second Generation weather satellite returns first data
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.
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A new era in Forest and Land Cover Monitoring
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…
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OBSERVER: The EU Space Programme Explained
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…
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Algae bloom chlorophyll South Australia
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.
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ESA data records help underpin climate change report
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.
