The Crosson and Dotson Ice Shelves are situated in West Antarctica. These huge ice shelves are…
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Plato’s 24 newly installed cameras
Engineers at OHB, Germany, inspect Plato’s newly installed 24 cameras on the spacecraft’s optical bench, the…
ESA – Vega-C liftoff in slow-mo
ESA’s state-of-the-art Biomass satellite launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.…
MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 arrive in Florida
The first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1), with the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument on board, arrived at…
MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 arrive at Cape Canaveral harbour
The first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1), with the Copernicus Sentinel-4 instrument on board, arrived at…
Long-term record of biomass from space
Forests play an important role in the global carbon cycle, influencing levels of carbon dioxide in…
ESA – Proba-3’s orbit
The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission has achieved its ambitious goal when its two spacecraft, the…
ESA – Biomass antenna deployment selfie
Just a week after its launch, ESA’s Biomass mission has reached another critical milestone on its path…
Exoplanets explained by Nobel Prize winner (part 1) | The 5 Ws
Astrophysicist and Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz answers the who, what, where, when and why of…
Earth from Space: World’s biggest iceberg
The Ocean and Land Colour Instrument on Copernicus Sentinel-3 captured this image of Earth’s biggest iceberg,…