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- Clingy planets can trigger own doom, suspect Cheops and TESS 2025-07-02Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting away the planet’s wispy atmosphere, causing it to shrink every year.This is the first-ever evidence for a ‘planet with a death wish’. Though it was theorised […]
- MTG-S1 and Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission highlights 2025-07-02Video: 00:03:30 Two meteorological missions – Meteosat Third Generation Sounder-1 (MTG-S1) and the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission – have launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.Both are world-class Earth observation missions developed with European partners to address scientific and societal challenges. The MTG-S1 satellite will generate a completely new type of […]
- MTG-S1 and Sentinel-4 launch to change how we see our atmosphere 2025-07-01The second of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) satellites and the first instrument for the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission lifted off at 23:04 CEST on Tuesday, 1 July. The satellite is now on its way to monitor Earth’s atmosphere from an altitude of 36 000 km. From this geostationary orbit, the missions can provide game-changing data […]