Category: News

ESA’s Sentinel-1 Mission Manager Pierre Potin joins the show to discuss the radar vision mission for Copernicus

Europe’s Sentinel-1A satellite has shown that the Mekong River Delta – one of the world’s major rice-growing areas – saw a significant drop in productivity over the past year, illustrating the effect of El Niño on food security.

Our week through the lens:
11-15 April 2016

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-1A image of Ireland, also featured on the Earth from Space video programme

The international Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from outside our Solar System.

Operations image of the week: ESA’s deep-space tracking station in Argentina seen while relaying signals from Philae in 2014

Multiple satellites, including Europe’s Sentinels, have captured images of two large icebergs that broke away from Antarctica’s Nansen ice shelf on 7 April.

Technology image of the week: Clean Space’s new board game helps educate engineers about the environmental impacts of space missions

The ESA–Roscosmos ExoMars spacecraft are in excellent health following launch last month, with the orbiter sending back its first test image of a starry view taken en route to the Red Planet.

Watch ESA education in-flight call with astronaut Tim Peake on 14 April, streaming starts at 14:00 CEST, with Tim live at 14:40 CEST

Human spaceflight and robotic exploration image of the week: ESA astronaut Tim Peake reading Yuri Gagarin’s biography in space for Cosmonaut day

The Sentinel-1 mission is allowing institutes to provide a better service to users needing reliable information on sea ice, which is key to living and working safely in Arctic regions

Keeping you posted on new developments in space applications that help tackle migration issues