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- MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5: from cleanroom to space 2025-08-14Video: 00:04:21 Europe’s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite – which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 mission – has launched aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).MetOp-SG-A1 is the first in a series of three successive pairs of satellites. The mission as a whole not only […]
- FLEX instrument meets its satellite 2025-08-14Image: The development of ESA’s Earth Explorer FLEX mission has recently passed a significant milestone: the mission’s all-important instrument has been joined to its satellite platform.
- Tracking the climate-driven shift in Antarctic plankton from space 2025-08-13Combining 25 years of space-based data with ocean sampling, scientists have uncovered a change in the microscopic organisms that underpin the Southern Ocean’s food chain and carbon storage.