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NEWS
Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
News - Success Stories
9 Mar 202210 years of Envisat data help to illuminate ocean processes
A decade after Envisat beamed its final image to the planet, the pioneering ESA mission is continuing to foster improved understanding of Earth’s systems.
News - Data Release news
21 Feb 20202012 CryoSat Ice Baseline D reprocessed data now available
We're pleased to inform the CryoSat scientific community that the reprocessed CryoSat Ice Baseline D data for all of 2012 has been published on the Science Server and is now available for download.
News - Data Release news
13 May 20202015 CryoSat Ice Baseline D reprocessed data now available
The reprocessed CryoSat Ice Baseline D data for all of 2015 has now been published on the Science Server.
News - Data Release news
15 May 20202016 CryoSat Ice Baseline D reprocessed data now available
The reprocessed CryoSat Ice Baseline D data for 2016 has now been published on the Science Server.
News - Infographics
31 May 2021Aeolus - ESA's mission dedicated to winds, aerosols and clouds
Learn more about ESA's youngest Earth Explorer - the Aeolus mission - in our latest infographic
News - General News
2 Nov 2023Aeolus data and lessons learned: what happens next for ESA’s wind mission?
The Aeolus satellite returned to Earth on 28 July 2023, in an assisted reentry that marked the end of nearly five years in space. For scientists working with Aeolus data, however, the mission lives on.
News - Data Release news
19 May 2020Aeolus data now publicly available
Last week marked an exciting milestone for Aeolus. On 12 May, its wind data became publicly available.
News - Operational News
28 May 2020Aeolus set for Instrument Telescope Refocussing exercise
Aeolus's telescope requires periodic collimation and refocussing. To this end, the Instrument Telescope Refocussing activity aims to improve the radiometric performance of the Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument's telescope, ALADIN.
News - Data Release news
24 Mar 2020ALOS PALSAR WB1 Collection now available online
Area Observation Mode (Burst Mode 1) collection, which will complete the existing ALOS PALSAR data offer.
News - Infographics
15 Nov 2022An overview of ESA's Biomass Earth Explorer satellite
Learn about ESA's upcoming Biomass mission, which is dedicated to gathering information about the global distribution of forest biomass, in our latest infographic.
News - Infographics
8 Nov 2021An overview of ESA's Third Party Missions programme
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions
News - Spotlight on EO community
19 Apr 2023An overview of the Aeolus mission
In this overview video, ESA's mission manager, Tommaso Parrinello, describes the successes and challenges of this amazing mission, whose impacts will live long beyond its lifetime in space.
News - Spotlight on EO community
27 June 2023An overview of the Biomass mission
In this video, Klaus Scipal - Biomass and SMOS Mission Manager - talks about ESA's upcoming Biomass mission.
News - Infographics
22 Feb 2022An overview of the GEOSAT-2 high-resolution mission
The GEOSAT series consists of two very high-resolution satellites, capable of acquiring sub-metric multispectral images. The missions are part of ESA's Third Party Missions programme, and GEOSAT-2 is summarised in our latest infographic.
News - Infographics
31 May 2023An overview of the Pléiades Neo mission
Pléiades Neo is a constellation of two very high-resolution satellites, launched in 2021, which were created to follow on from the Pléiades mission.
News - Infographics
7 Feb 2022An overview of the SAOCOM SAR satellite missions
Learn more about the SAOCOM mission, a constellation of two satellites, in our latest infographic.
News - Spotlight on EO community
4 July 2023An overview of the SMOS mission
In this video, Klaus Scipal - Biomass and SMOS Mission Manager - talks about ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission.
News - Infographics
16 Dec 2021An overview of the very high-resolution Pleiades satellites
Find out about the achievements of the Pléiades programme in this infographic.
News - Infographics
31 Aug 2022An overview of the very high-resolution WorldView constellation
Learn about the WorldView constellation, part of ESA’s Third Party Missions programme, in this infographic.
News - Success Stories
26 May 2020Around the world in eight balloons with Strateole-2
Strateole-2 is a French-US project supported by ESA that uses CNES superpressure balloons drifting around the globe to study the climate processes in the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL) and the lower stratosphere, helping Aeolus validation activities along the way.