The nation of Greece is highlighted within a mosaic of satellite images of the southernmost tip…
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Satellite navigation at Olympic Games
A future step up in security for the Olympic Games and other such events could come…
VideoTalk: Spinning off from Space
How can an astronaut in a space suit, or a spacecraft in orbit, improve the quality…
Satellites tracing forest fire scars
Burning with a core heat approaching 800°C and spreading at up to 100 metres per minute,…
Chinese Satellite Launched
On July 25 at 09:05 CEST (15:05 local time) the Chinese National Space Administration successfully launched…
Earth from Space: image of the week
A large part of Brazil’s Amazon Basin is shown here. The area is a low-lying valley…
Ship-sinking monster waves
Once dismissed as a nautical myth, freakish ocean waves that rise as tall as ten-storey apartment…
‘Jules Verne’ arrives at ESTEC
After a long and complicated journey by air, land and sea, the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV)…
New Observing the Earth website
What is the use of Earth Observation? Quite a lot is the short reply; the full…
Galileo moves forward
The GalileoSat development and in-orbit validation phase is well under way and the European Space Agency…