ESA 2025: A 50-Years Legacy of Building the Future
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In 1975, 10 European countries came together with a vision to collaborate on key space activities: science and astronomy, launch capabilities and space applications: the European Space Agency, ESA, was born. In 202...
Copernicus Sentinel-1: Radar Vision for Copernicus
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Meet Copernicus Sentinel-1. This ground-breaking mission delivers continuous, all-weather, day-and-night imaging for land, ice and maritime monitoring. Equipped with state-of-the-art C-band synthetic aperture radar...
NASA Expert Describes Agency’s Tiny Solar Array With Super Power
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NASA teams are testing a key technology demonstration known as LISA-T, short for the Lightweight Integrated Solar Array and anTenna. It’s a super compact, stowable, thin-film solar array that when fully deployed in sp...
Arctic Sea Ice Near Historic Low; Antarctic Ice Continues Decline
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This summer, Arctic sea ice decreased to a its minimum extent on Sept. 11, 2024. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center this is the 7th lowest in the satellite record. The decline continues the long-term t...
ESA’s Hera Mission Launch Highlight
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ESA’s Hera mission lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on 7 Oct. 7, 2024. Hera is ESA’s first planetary defence mission. It will fly to a unique target among the 1.3 ...
NOAA Debuts First Imagery from GOES-19
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On Sept. 18, 2024, NOAA shared the first images of the Western Hemisphere from its GOES-19 satellite. The satellite’s Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument recently captured stunning views of Earth. GOES-19, N...
A Look Back at Sentinel-2C’s Ride into Space on Vega
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The third Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, Sentinel-2C, has launched aboard the last Vega rocket, flight VV24, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 5 September at 03:50 CEST (4 September ...
Discovering Earth’s Third Global Energy Field
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High above the Earth’s North and South Poles, a steady stream of particles escapes from our atmosphere into space. Scientists call this mysterious outflow the “polar wind,” and for almost 60 years, spacecraft have bee...