European Space Agency news
Week in images: 27-31 October 2025
Week in images: 27-31 October 2025 Discover our week through the lens
Seas of the Sun: The story of Cluster
Video: 00:46:03 What began with tragedy ended in triumph. This is the untold story of the European Space Agency’s pioneering 25-year Cluster mission to study how invisible solar storms impact Earth's environment.Like a ship in a never-ending storm, Earth...
Earth from Space: Ghostly lake
Image: To celebrate Halloween, we bring you these spooky sights of Lake Carnegie in Australia, captured from space by Copernicus Sentinel-2.
Flickering flame: spooky spirits or serious scienc...
Image: Flickering flame: spooky spirits or serious science?
Sentinel-1D pre-launch media briefing
Video: 00:45:45 Follow the online briefing on the launch scheduled for 4 November 2025. The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission delivers radar images of Earth’s surface. It is vital for disaster response teams, environmental agencies, maritime authorities, climate scientists.
ESA Space Safety Fleet
Image: ESA Space Safety Fleet
AI challenge advances satellite-based disaster map...
Four teams from different countries have been recognised for their breakthrough work in using artificial intelligence to detect earthquake damage from space, marking the conclusion of a global competition organised by the European Space Agency in collaboration with the...
ESA’s first stand-alone deep-space CubeSat Henon t...
The European Space Agency’s upcoming Henon mission will be the first ever CubeSat to independently venture into deep space, communicate with Earth and manoeuvre to its final destination without relying on a bigger spacecraft. Once in its orbit around...
Europe turns to space to boost resilience
The role of space for security was presented at a high-level event in Brussels on Tuesday.
The Red Spider Nebula, caught by Webb
Image: The Red Spider Nebula (Webb)
ESA establishes presence in Tokyo to strengthen st...
The European Space Agency has announced it is establishing a new presence in Tokyo, Japan, its first in Asia.
Hurricane Melissa barrels through the Caribbean
Image: This image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission show Hurricane Melissa as it barrelled through the Caribbean Sea
Watch live: Sentinel-1D launch on Ariane 6
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is about to get its fourth satellite, with Sentinel-1D now ready for liftoff. Launch will take place with an Ariane 6 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana and live coverage will be shown on Tuesday, 4...
Sentinel-1D encapsulated inside Ariane 6 fairing
Image: Sentinel-1D encapsulated inside Ariane 6 fairing
Week in images: 20-24 October 2025
Week in images: 20-24 October 2025 Discover our week through the lens
Focusing on NGC 3370
Image: Focusing on NGC 3370
Earth from space: Likouala-aux-Herbes river, Congo...
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captures the meandering course of the Likouala-aux-Herbes river in the Republic of the Congo.



















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