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• Mission - Earth Explorers

  

  Mission - Earth Explorers

  Aeolus

  The Aeolus mission provides global observations of wind profiles from space to improve the quality of weather forecasts, and to advance our understanding of atmospheric dynamics and climate processes.

• Mission - Earth Explorers

  

  Mission - Earth Explorers

  Swarm

  Swarm is dedicated to creating a highly detailed survey of the Earth’s geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution as well as the electric field in the atmosphere using a constellation of three identical satellites.

• Mission - Earth Explorers

  

  Mission - Earth Explorers

  CryoSat

  CryoSat determines variations in the thickness of continental ice sheets and marine ice cover. Europe's first ice mission is an advanced radar altimeter specifically designed to monitor the most dynamic sections of Earth's cryosphere.

• Mission - Earth Explorers

  

  Mission - Earth Explorers

  SMOS

  The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is dedicated to making global observations of soil moisture over land and salinity over oceans

• Mission - Earth Watch

  

  Mission - Earth Watch

  PROBA-V

  The PROBA-V mission provides multispectral images to study the evolution of the vegetation cover on a daily and global basis.

• Mission - Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Third Party Missions

  PROBA-1

  PROBA-1 is a technology demonstration satellite that later became an operational Earth observation mission.

• Mission - Earth Explorers, Heritage Missions

  

  Mission - Earth Explorers, Heritage Missions

  GOCE

  ESA's Gravity field and Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission mapped Earth's geoid very accurately, opening a window into Earth's interior structure as well as the currents circulating within the depths of its oceans. 

• Mission - Heritage Missions

  

  Mission - Heritage Missions

  Envisat

  Envisat was ESA's successor to ERS. Envisat carried ten instruments aboard for a wide range of Earth observing fields. The mission was operational from 2002 to 2012.

• Mission - Heritage Missions

  

  Mission - Heritage Missions

  ERS

  The ERS programme was composed of two missions, ERS-1 and ERS-2, which together observed the Earth for 20 years, from 1991 to 2011.

• Mission - Copernicus Sentinels

  

  Mission - Copernicus Sentinels

  Copernicus Sentinel-5P

  The Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor mission is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere.

• Mission - Copernicus Sentinels

  

  Mission - Copernicus Sentinels

  Copernicus Sentinel-3

  Copernicus Sentinel-3 is an European Earth Observation satellite mission developed to support Copernicus ocean, land, atmospheric, emergency, security and cryospheric applications.

• Mission - Copernicus Sentinels

  

  Mission - Copernicus Sentinels

  Copernicus Sentinel-2

  The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission comprises a constellation of two polar-orbiting satellites placed in the same sun-synchronous orbit, phased at 180° to each other.

• Mission - Copernicus Sentinels

  

  Mission - Copernicus Sentinels

  Copernicus Sentinel-1

  The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission comprises a constellation of two polar-orbiting satellites, operating day and night performing C-band synthetic aperture radar imaging, enabling them to acquire imagery regardless of the weather.

• Mission - Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Third Party Missions

  WorldView-4

  WorldView-4 was an imaging and environment-monitoring satellite from DigitalGlobe of the United States, which offered very high resolution imagery.

• Mission - Earth Explorers

  

  Mission - Earth Explorers

  Biomass

  The objective of the Biomass mission is to determine the global distribution of forest biomass.

• Mission - Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Third Party Missions

  WorldView-1

  WorldView-1 helped meet the growing commercial demand for multi-spectral geospatial imagery.

• Mission - Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Third Party Missions

  PAZ

  The PAZ (Spanish for “peace”) satellite, operates as a constellation alongside TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X.

• Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Heritage Missions, Third Party Missions

  IRS-1C and IRS-1D

  The Indian Remote Sensing satellites IRS-1C and IRS-1D were identical Earth-imaging satellites operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation.

• Mission - Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Third Party Missions

  GOSAT Series

  The GOSAT series is composed of two environment-monitoring satellites developed by JAXA dedicated to the observation of greenhouse gases.

• Mission - Third Party Missions

  

  Mission - Third Party Missions

  Landsat Series

  The Landsat series is the world's longest running system of satellites for moderate-resolution optical remote sensing for land, coastal areas and shallow waters.