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New satellite demonstrates the power of AI for Earth observation

Φsat-2, ESA’s groundbreaking cubesat designed to revolutionise Earth observation with artificial intelligence, has launched.

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Arctic Weather Satellite lifts off to set the stage for better forecasts

ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite has been launched, paving the way for a potential constellation of satellites that would provide more frequent data not only to enhance short-term weather forecasts for Arctic nations, but for the world as a whole.

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Watch Arctic Weather Satellite and Φsat-2 launch live

ESA’s Arctic Weather Satellite and Φsat-2 missions are ready for lift-off from Vandenberg, California, with a target launch date of 16 August 2024. 

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How the Moon shaped our world: discover our interactive publication

How the Moon shaped our world: discover our interactive publication

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Wildfires rage across Athens

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Firefighters in Greece are battling a rapidly spreading wildfire that has swept across several neighbourhoods in Athens, Greece, on Monday. Thousands of residents have been evacuated as the massive fire reached the suburbs of Athens, with some flames reaching heights of 25 m.

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Arctic Weather Satellite: advancing weather forecasting in a changing climate

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The effects of the climate crisis are felt more acutely in the Arctic than anywhere else on the planet. The weather in the Arctic is not only severe, but it changes extremely quickly. More frequent data are urgently needed to improve weather forecasts for this susceptible polar region.

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Week in images: 05-09 August 2024

Week in images: 05-09 August 2024

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The hidden intricacies of Messier 106

Image: The hidden intricacies of Messier 106

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Build your own Ariane 6 rocket with ESA!

Build your own Ariane 6 rocket with ESA!

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Promising early tests for variable-thrust landing engine

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Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids

ESA’s star-surveying Gaia mission has again proven to be a formidable asteroid explorer, spotting potential moons around more than 350 asteroids not known to have a companion.

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Drop it like it’s hot: Space Rider model falls gracefully

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Take a trip to Mars’s largest lake

Mars once hosted a lake larger than any on Earth. The broken-down and dried-up remnants of this ancient lakebed are shown here in amazing detail by ESA’s Mars Express.

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Rosetta and beyond: tales of a mission that left a mark

Exactly ten years on since Rosetta arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, we dig into how the intrepid explorer has transformed our knowledge of comets, revealed some crucial pieces in the Solar System jigsaw puzzle, and shaped how we develop new missions.

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Sławosz Uznański from Poland will fly to International Space Station on fourth Axiom Space mission

Polish project astronaut Sławosz Uznański is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4).

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Detecting nitrogen dioxide from power plants with Sentinel-2

Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide is a harmful pollutant with significant impacts on air quality, climate and the biosphere. Although satellites have mapped nitrogen dioxide concentrations since the 1990s, their resolution was generally too coarse to pinpoint individual sources like power plants.

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Week in images: 29 July - 02 August 2024

Week in images: 29 July - 02 August 2024

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Euclid Galaxy Zoo – help us classify the shapes of galaxies

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Space propulsion-as-a-service gets a Boost!

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Glimpses of Hera’s target asteroids inspire new science

As ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence completes its pre-launch testing, its target asteroids have come into focus as tiny worldlets of their own. A special issue of Nature Communications published this week presents studies of the Didymos asteroid and its Dimorphos moon, based on the roughly five and a half minutes of close-range footage returned by NASA’s DART spacecraft before it impacted the latter body – along with post-impact images from the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube.

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Ariane 6: post-launch update

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