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New sea-level monitoring satellite goes live
Following liftoff last November and more than six months spent carefully calibrating the most advanced mission dedicated to measuring sea-level rise, Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael...
News ObservationJune 24, 2021 -
CNES SCIENCE PROGRAMMES COMMITTEE MEETS
Institutional affairsJune 24, 2021 -
Why is there so little water left on Mars?
Mars is known for its thin atmosphere, where CO2 dominates and provides most of the atmospheric mass and pressure. In fact, the pressure is similar to that in the Earth’s...
News SciencesJune 24, 2021 -
Satellites reveal cause of Chamoli disaster
A new study using satellite evidence confirms that a rock and ice avalanche caused the Chamoli disaster in India earlier this year.
News ObservationJune 14, 2021 -
Juice moves into Large Space Simulator
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer has moved into the ‘Large Space Simulator’ at ESA’s test centre, ready for grueling environmental tests at a range of temperatures.
News SciencesJune 14, 2021 -
Voyage 2050 sets sail: ESA chooses future science...
ESA’s large-class science missions for the timeframe 2035-2050 will focus on moons of the giant Solar System planets, temperate exoplanets or the galactic ecosystem, and new...
News SciencesJune 11, 2021 -
Four mission ideas to compete for Earth Explorer...
Four new mission ideas – Cairt, Nitrosat, Seastar and Wivern – have been selected to enter pre-feasibility study and compete to be the ESA's eleventh Earth Explorer mission.
News ObservationJune 10, 2021 -
Forest degradation primary driver of carbon loss...
Forest degradation, to be distinguished from deforestation, has become the largest process driving carbon loss in the Brazilian Amazon, according to a recent study using ESA...
News ObservationJune 10, 2021 -
ExoMars rover twin begins Earth-based mission in...
The replica ExoMars rover ‘Ground Test Model’ (GTM) that will be used in the Rover Operations Control Centre to support mission training and operations is fully assembled and has...
News SciencesJune 4, 2021 -
Galileo satellites’ last step before launch
Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation constellation is set to grow. Later this year the first two out of 12 ‘Batch 3’ Galileo satellites will be launched by Soyuz from French...
News TelecommunicationsJune 3, 2021 -
CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers in Alaska...
New research, based on information from ESA’s CryoSat mission, shows how much ice has been lost from mountain glaciers in the Gulf Alaska and in High Mountain Asia since 2010.
News ObservationJune 1, 2021 -
ESA signs contract for new generation of Galileo
Acting on behalf of the European Commission, ESA has signed two contracts for an overall amount of €1.47 billion, to design and build the first batch of the second generation of...
News TelecommunicationsMay 28, 2021 -
Arctic sea ice succumbs to Atlantification
With alarm bells ringing about the rapid demise of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, satellite data have revealed how the intrusion of warmer Atlantic waters is reducing ice regrowth...
News ObservationMay 21, 2021 -
NEW SUCCESS FOR CNES LAUNCHERS R&D CHALLENGE...
ArianeMay 20, 2021 -
New ESA contracts to advance Prometheus and...
ESA is forging ahead with advanced developments in two flagship space transportation demonstration projects, Prometheus and Phoebus. This will benefit Europe’s new Ariane 6...
News SciencesMay 19, 2021 -
ESA to unveil its plans for lunar satellites
Dozens of international, institutional and commercial teams are planning to send missions to the Moon, envisaging a permanent human lunar presence. Using a shared...
News TelecommunicationsMay 19, 2021 -
Solar Orbiter images first coronal mass ejections
By happy coincidence, three of Solar Orbiter’s remote sensing instruments captured a pair of coronal mass ejections in the days after February’s close flyby of the Sun. CMEs are...
News SciencesMay 18, 2021 -
The curious incident of Swarm and sprites in the...
The likelihood of this happening might seem pretty remote, but, remarkably, an observer for the Czech Institute of Atmospheric Physics who is also an avid ‘lightning hunter’ has...
News ObservationMay 18, 2021