Since the Cumbre Vieja volcano began erupting on 19 September 2021, lava has burned through homes, roads and farmlands causing mass destruction on the west part of the Canary Island of La Palma. Satellite imagery has helped authorities monitor and manage the ongoing crisis. From capturing images of...

Investment in Earth Observation (EO) hit the headlines this week, particularly two announcements from Spain.

Firstly, a consortium of twenty-three Spanish companies, led by Open Cosmos, covering the entire upstream and downstream value chain has come together with an ambition to launch of constell...

Just 16 days after its launch Space-SI, the Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies, released the first multispectral image captured by its NEMO-HD Earth observation microsatellite. Built by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) in collaboration with SPACE-SI, NEMO-HD is Slove...

Earth's climate is changing, and the study of oceans is vital to understanding the effects of those changes on our future. For the first time, U.S and European agencies are preparing to launch a 10-year satellite mission to continue to study the clearest sign of global warming — rising sea levels. T...

Wildfires have been making headlines again this month, with multiple fires burning in Lebanon and California, but these are just some of the many fires 2019 has seen. Fires in the Amazon sparked a global outcry this summer, but fires have also been blazing in the Arctic, France, Greece, Indonesia...

Arianespace and the European Space Agency have signed a launch services contract with a Vega launch vehicle for the Earth Explorer Biomass.

This is the seventh mission in ESA's Earth Explorer program and will provide global maps of the amount of carbon stored in the world's forests and how it chan...