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Growing more coffee
Technology image of the week: ESA incubator app to help Rwandan coffee farmers
Togged up in ‘scape suits’
Fuelling a satellite is particularly dangerous, so the team has to wear ‘scape suits’ for protection.…
Sentinel-1 fully loaded
The Sentinel-1A satellite is now fuelled. This rather hazardous operation cannot be rushed and took a…
Ice sheet contribution to sea-level rise
This animation merges 20 years of satellite data to demonstrate how much – and how fast…
Star-forming region ON2
Massive stars are born in tumultuous clouds of gas and dust. They lead a brief but…
Galileo solar wing test deployment
Test deployment of a Galileo solar wing in Dutch Space's cleanroom. The completed wings are suspended on…
Sentinel-1 takes the lead
Sentinel-1A is the first in the family of Copernicus satellites. Delivering timely information for numerous services,…
Sentinel-1 constellation
The Sentinel-1 mission is designed as a constellation of two identical satellites, Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B ,…
Sentinel-1: seeing through clouds
As an advanced radar mission, Sentinel-1 can image the surface of Earth through cloud and rain…