Following a 10-day voyage across the Atlantic from Bordeaux in France, the MetOp Second Generation-B1 weather satellite, has arrived at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. After a short storage period, this new satellite will be prepared for launch aboard an Ariane 6 rocket, expected at the end of the year.

Image: Demonstrating that the visible channels of Sentinel-3C’s sea and land surface temperature radiometer are working as expected, on 2 October the instrument captured this image of Hurricane Rachel over the eastern Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Mexico and the Baja California Peninsula.

Image: This image over part of West Antarctica was captured by Copernicus Sentinel-3 on 30 September 2026.

ESA joins the Portuguese Space Agency as a strategic partner in the European Rocketry Challenge (EuRoC), broadening its reach in developing the talent needed by Europe’s expanding space sector.

After years of hard engineering work and deep learning as part of the ESA Academy Experiments Programme, the student-built SCAMPI experiment has been launched to the International Space Station (ISS) onboard the SpaceX CRS-35 mission on 13 October 2026 at 12:33 CEST.

Image: While the final eight IRIDE Eaglet II satellites were launched a week ago, the first images from Eaglet II satellites launched earlier are being returned, including a view of Gibraltar featured here.

Image: This image from Copernicus Sentinel-2, acquired on 5 April 2026, shows the Etosha National Park in northern Namibia.

Just two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from two of its key instruments – a major milestone that confirms the satellite is working well and on the road to monitoring the health of Earth’s oceans, land, cryosphere and atmosphere.