July 12, 2017

Call for Media: First Copernicus air-quality monitoring satellite on show

Call for Media: First Copernicus air-quality monitoring satellite on show: Media are invited to see the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite on 20 July at Airbus in Stevenage, UK, before it is shipped to Russia for launch. As well as viewing this state-of-the-art Copernicus satellite in the cleanroom, media representatives will be able to learn how the mission will r…

Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg / Sentinel-1 / Copernicus / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA

Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg / Sentinel-1 / Copernicus / Observing the Earth / Our Activities / ESA: Over the last few months, a chunk of Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf has been hanging on precariously as a deep crack cut across the ice. Witnessed by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, a lump of ice more than twice the size of Luxembourg has now broken off, spawning one of the largest i…

June 26, 2017

Space in Images - 2017 - 06 - SOHO’s summer solstice Sun

Space in Images - 2017 - 06 - SOHO’s summer solstice Sun: Residents of Earth’s northern hemisphere enjoyed the greatest number of daylight hours in a single day all year on 21 June 2017. This summer solstice occurs when the tilt of Earth’s axis is most inclined towards the Sun, which sits directly over the Tropic of Cancer.The ESA/NASA SOHO sola…

June 2, 2017

Space in Images - 2017 - 06 - Great Barrier Reef

Space in Images - 2017 - 06 - Great Barrier Reef: The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over part of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia’s northeast coast on 1 April 2017.Click on the box in the lower-right corner to view this image at its full 10 m resolution directly in your browser.Extending more than 2000 km and covering an …

May 19, 2017

NASA Space Launch System’s First Flight to Send Small Sci-Tech Satellites Into Space

NASA Space Launch System’s First Flight to Send Small Sci-Tech Satellites Into Space: The first flight of NASA’s new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), will carry 13 CubeSats to test innovative ideas along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft in 2018.