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Masked campaign

Hot and cold space radio testing

Arrival of world-first test facility

False-colour images captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 show the aftermath of the explosive volcanic eruption that took place on 9 April 2021 on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent.

Drone test of Hera mission asteroid radar

Ariane 6 pre-flight 'plumbing' tests

How do we tackle the debris problem, to secure the sustainability of space long term?

Getting CubeSats moving

The enormous Ever Given container ship, wedged in Egypt’s Suez Canal, is visible in new images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission.

Stretches of land across New South Wales, Australia, have been hit with torrential rain leading to record-breaking floods. Data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission are being used to map flooded areas to help relief efforts.

Lunar cave explorer

How much damage can debris do?

ESA's technical heart

Learning lessons from the past on space debris

Dynamic dunes

3D printing, as long as you like

Using reentries to clean up

Planet-hunting eye of Plato

Launch rates are dramatically increasing

New Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar images show a giant iceberg breaking off from the northern section of Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf

Greener way to get satellites moving

Collision avoidance: what's the cost?

Italy’s Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has erupted twice in less than 48 hours, spewing a fountain of lava and ash into the sky. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image has been processed to show the lava flow in bright red.

Flying fire watch

Satellites and debris take a long time to return

As this Copernicus Sentinel-3 image captured today shows, the Netherlands remains pretty much snow-covered thanks to days of sub-zero temperatures following the country’s first major snowstorm in a decade.

At the rim of a crater

Proba-V’s plus one

Happy new Mars year

Propelling satellites into the future

ExoMars orbiter's 20000th image

Simulating space

Sardinia, the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Seeing in a flash

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the Tanezrouft Basin – one of the most desolate parts of the Sahara Desert.

Asteroids vs. microbes

The heavy snowfall that hit Spain a few days ago still lies heavy across much of the country as this Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite image shows.

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