NASA satellites have detected a vast pulse of warm water reaching the coast of South America, signaling that El Niño is ...

Measurements of atmospheric ozone from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite are now being used in daily forecasts of air quality. Launched in October 2017, Copernicus Sentinel-5P – short for ...

Airbus said it secured a €345 million ($400 million) contract from Thales Alenia Space to develop and manufacture two radar ...

BERLIN—The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Thales Alenia Space a contract to develop and build the Copernicus Sentinel-1 Next Generation Earth-observation satellite. The signature at the ILA ...

A contract signed with Arianespace secures the launch for the third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite. Scheduled to lift off on ESA's new Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in the ...

On 4 November 2025 at 22:02 CET (18:02 local time), the new Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite was successfully launched from French Guiana. The Sentinel mission provides essential data for monitoring ...

The Sentinel satellites are the key element of the Copernicus Programme. Instead of installing as many measurement instruments as possible on a single satellite, as was the case with ENVISAT, each ...