Image: Following International Mountain Day, which creates awareness of the importance of mountain environments around the world, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Pariacaca Mountain Range in Peru.

As part of the ESA Academy Experiments Programme, Team V-STARS carried out the first experiment with human participants in the Orbital Robotics Lab, investigating how microgravity affects the perception of verticality.

In the frame of ESA Academy’s Engagement initiative, ESA is offering a limited number of sponsorships to tertiary education students from ESA Member State, Associate Member, or Canada, to attend the 18th edition of the European Space Conference (ESC) in Brussels on 27-28 January 2026.  

ESA Academy invites teams of motivated university students to apply for the CubeSat Concurrent Engineering Workshop 2026. This five-day event will take place from 23 to 27 February 2026 at ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium, and offers a unique opportunity for students who are starting or planning a CubeSat project to gain hands-on experience in concurrent engineering. The…

The European Space Agency’s Swarm mission detected a large but temporary spike of high-energy protons at Earth’s poles during a geomagnetic storm in November. It did this not with the scientific instruments for measuring Earth’s magnetic field, but with its ‘star tracker’ positioning instruments – a first for the Swarm mission.

OBSERVER: Antarctic ozone hole closes early, indicating signs of recovery enora@ALSOcons… Thu, 11/12/2025 – 09:59 Data from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) confirmed the closure of the 2025 Antarctic ozone hole on 1 December, marking the weakest and shortest‑lived ozone hole in five years. For the second year in a row, the average extent…

Video: 00:06:15 The Minoans were a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization (c. 3100–1100 BC) on Crete and widely regarded as Europe’s earliest advanced culture. They are best known for their impressive palace complexes, most notably Knossos, and for their far-reaching maritime trade, which most likely relied on celestial navigation and a detailed understanding of the constellations.…

A structural model of the upcoming Copernicus Radar Observing System for Europe at L-band satellite, or ROSE-L for short, has recently been put through a series of demanding tests – including intense vibration – to demonstrate that the satellite will be able to withstand the stresses of launch and operations in orbit. Once in orbit,…

Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China.

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…