News and Events
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Gearing up for third Sentinel-2 satellite
With the first Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite in orbit since 2015 and the second since 2017, engineers are busy preparing the mission’s follow-on pair to eventually pick up the...
News ObservationAugust 9, 2021 -
NASA’s Perseverance Team Assessing First Mars...
Data sent to Earth by NASA’s Perseverance rover after its first attempt to collect a rock sample on Mars and seal it in a sample tube indicate that no rock was collected during...
News SciencesAugust 6, 2021 -
Russia’s forests store more carbon than...
Russia has the largest area of forest on the planet, with more than a fifth of the world's trees. A new study, led by Russian scientists using data from ESA’s Climate Change...
News ObservationAugust 4, 2021 -
Science in motion for ExoMars twin rover
The first science tests for the ExoMars rover replica kicked off after several weeks of driving tests around the Mars Terrain Simulator at the ALTEC premises in Turin, Italy.
News SciencesAugust 2, 2021 -
Smoke billows from fires in Turkey
Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on 30 July 2021, this image shows smoke billowing from several fires along the southern coast of Turkey. Turkey has been battling...
News ObservationAugust 2, 2021 -
NEW LAUNCH SUCCESS FOR ARIANE 5 STAR ONE D2 AND...
ArianeJuly 30, 2021 -
Juice takes the heat
ESA's Jupiter Icy moons Explorer, Juice, has successfully completed rigorous thermal tests simulating the extreme coldness of space and the warmth of the Sun at ESA’s test...
News SciencesJuly 29, 2021 -
XMM-Newton sees light echo from behind a black...
For the first time, astronomers have singled out light coming from behind a black hole, enabling them to study the processes on its far side.
News SciencesJuly 28, 2021 -
Better understanding of Earth’s atmospheric...
Long-term studies of ozone and water vapour in the atmosphere of Mars could lead to better understanding of atmospheric chemistry for the Earth. A new analysis of data from ESA...
News SciencesJuly 23, 2021 -
NASA Perseverance Mars Rover to Acquire First...
NASA is making final preparations for its Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first-ever sample of Martian rock, which future planned missions will transport to Earth.
News SciencesJuly 21, 2021 -
ExoMars orbiter continues hunt for key signs of...
The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter has set new upper limits on how much methane, ethane, ethylene and phosphine is in the martian atmosphere – four so-called ‘biomarker’ gases...
News SciencesJuly 20, 2021 -
Rescuing Integral: No thrust? No problem
A year ago tomorrow, a failure on the Integral spacecraft meant it fired its thrusters for likely the last time. In the days since, the spacecraft in Earth orbit has continued to...
News SciencesJuly 16, 2021 -
Swarm yields new insight into animal migration
Using measurements from ESA’s Earth Explorer Swarm mission, scientists have developed a new tool that links the strength and direction of the magnetic field to the flight paths of...
News ObservationJuly 9, 2021 -
The mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray...
The 40-year-old mystery of what causes Jupiter’s X-ray auroras has been solved. For the first time, astronomers have seen the entire mechanism at work – and it could be a process...
News SciencesJuly 9, 2021 -
First high-altitude drop test success for ExoMars...
After several weeks of bad weather and strong winds, the latest pair of high-altitude drop tests of the ExoMars parachutes took place in Kiruna, Sweden. The 15 m-wide first stage...
News SciencesJuly 2, 2021 -
Webb passes key launch clearance review
The international James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review for its launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
News SciencesJuly 1, 2021 -
INTERNATIONAL SPACE COOPERATION FOR CLIMATE -...
ObservationJune 30, 2021 -
Unique exoplanet photobombs Cheops study of...
While exploring two exoplanets in a bright nearby star system, ESA’s exoplanet-hunting Cheops satellite has unexpectedly spotted the system’s third known planet crossing the face...
News SciencesJune 28, 2021