ESA's Fundamental Data Record for VGT (FDR4VGT) project is improving the quality and consistency of more than two decades of global daily land monitoring observations.

When ICEYE launched its ICEYE-X1 satellite in January 2018, the Finnish company was testing an unproven idea: that a radar imaging satellite weighing less than 100 kilograms could deliver high-resolut...

Scientists have been using satellites for decades to study hydrological structures hidden below the sand in deserts. Now, with its unique P-band synthetic aperture radar, Biomass is playing a role too...

The European Space Agency has awarded two contracts, one to ICEYE and one to Leonardo, to carry out parallel architecture studies for the EU’s future Earth Observation Governmental Service (EOGS).Thes...

EarthCARE makes a range of measurements that together shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth’s climate. In a recent study, scientists used a regional climate mode...

Two Earth observation satellites – ESA’s Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite, and the third satellite for the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission – are encapsulated inside the nose cone of a Vega-C launc...

Europe’s Meteosat Third Generation Imager 2 (MTG-I2) satellite has reached its designated orbit at 36 000 km from Earth and is ready to begin its commissioning phase, preparing it to provide years of ...

Copernicus Sentinel-3 is one of the most diverse missions for measuring and monitoring Earth’s climate systems. It captures a breadth of data about the environment and has contributed substantially to...