With more than 750 000 pieces of dangerous debris now orbiting Earth, the urgent need for coordinated international action to ensure the long-term #sustainability of spaceflight is a major finding fro...
Looking for food that could be harvested by astronauts far from Earth, researchers focused on spirulina, which has been harvested for food in South America and Africa for centuries. ESA astronaut Sama...
The EOMAP aquatic remote sensing company, together with partners at the Remote Sensing Research Centre of Queensland University and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, are developing new methods to mon...
Title United KingdomReleased 10/06/2016 10:00 amCopyright Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2016]/ processed by ESADescriptionThe recently launched Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over the Un...
6 June 2016The ingenuity of four space engineers has created a zeroemission airconditioning system that doesn’t pollute our atmosphere when we turn it on.Air conditioning for offices, factories, shopp...
Satcoms in rural primary schools in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa looks set to expand following the success of a pilot project.Through ESA, the setup provides Internet connectivity and acces...
Cyclone Roanu has claimed over 100 lives in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and has left tens of thousands in need of aid. Officials are looking to the sky for information on flooded areas to analyse the cy...
Wildfires have been raging in Canada’s Alberta province for nearly three weeks, causing widespread destruction and forcing thousands of people from their homes. As the blaze grows and shifts, satellit...
3 May 2016ESA and Airbus Defence and Space UK signed a €229 million contract on 29 April to build the next Earth Explorer: the Biomass satellite, due to begin its mission in 2021.The satellite will pr...
Press release available only in original language. 15 Aprile 2016Molteplici satelliti, compresi gli europei Sentinel, hanno ripreso immagini dei due grandi iceberg che si sono staccati, il 7 apri...
Press release available only in original language. 21 March 2016A new facility is offering researchers and industry an opportunity to experiment with microalgae on larger scales than before. Based in ...
2 March 2016Just two weeks after launch, the latest Sentinel satellite has offered a taster of what it will provide for the EU’s Copernicus programme.Sentinel-3A’s very first image, captured at 14:09 ...
Press release available only in original language. 25 February 2016Each year, about a quarter of the carbon dioxide we release into the atmosphere ends up in the ocean, but how it happens is still not...
Press release available only in original language. 24 February 2016The current El Niño weather phenomenon is taking its toll on coral reefs, prompting a field campaign to the middle of the Pacific Oce...
8 February 2016Antarctica is surrounded by huge ice shelves. New research, using ice velocity data from satellites such as ESA’s heritage Envisat, has revealed that there is a critical point where the...
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