The European Space Agency has signed contracts for three High-Priority Candidate Missions for the agency’s Earth-observing Copernicus program. Combined, the contracts are worth 1.3 billion euros.

The first image, captured by the ocean and land color instrument is a striking natural-color view that reveals Italy in beautiful detail.

Just two weeks after reaching orbit, Europe’s new Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite has transmitted its first spectacular ...

[Via Satellite 10-28-2014] The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission have established the budget for the Copernicus environmental monitoring program. The European Union’s seven-year ...

Artistic rendition of the ESA Copernicus CRISTAL mission. Image is courtesy of the ESA. CRISTAL will carry an advanced, multi-frequency altimeter that will measure sea ice thickness and ice sheet ...

The Copernicus Carbon Dioxide Monitoring, or CO2M, mission is one of six Copernicus missions whose development is jeopardized by a 750 million euro funding shortfall caused by a lack of an agreement ...

Just two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite returned its first images and measurements from ...

This week marks 20 years since the manifesto was signed that gave rise to Europe's Copernicus environmental programme. With seven Sentinel satellites already in orbit delivering terabytes of data ...

The CO2M mission of the European Earth Observation Program, Copernicus aims to specifically measure how much climate-changing carbon dioxide is actually released into the atmosphere by human ...

Iceye’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery will be integrated into Europe’s Copernicus imagery program, the company announced with the European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday. Iceye is the first ...

The third of six ESA satellites has been sent into orbit, arming the Copernicus programme with the ability to monitor population movement, as well as produce far more accurate meteorological readings.