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 ...

Sentinel-5 Precursor, the most recent Copericus satellite to launch, monitors Earth's atmosphere, detecting pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, methane, carbon ...

On November 29, 2022, Arianespace announced having signed with the European Commission (Directorate General for Defence, Industry and Space), a contract for the procurement of five launch services ...

Copernicus is a joint initiative of the European Union (EU), the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), and their member ...

ESA signed a contract that brings the ICEYE constellation of small satellites into the fleet of missions contributing to Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. As a commercial ...

UK’s re-entry into EU’s Copernicus space programme is in doubt on facebook (opens in a new window) UK’s re-entry into EU’s Copernicus space programme is in doubt on linkedin (opens in a new window) ...

Switzerland has said it won’t be taking part in the EU’s climate change monitoring programme for the time being. Despite a parliamentary vote in favour of joining and agreements with the EU, the ...

The past few years have been some of the hottest ever. Scientists are able to observe these sorts of long-term weather trends using satellites and ground-based instruments through the EU's Copernicus ...

The EU’s space programme, Copernicus, is tasked with Earth observation, focusing on environmental data and its implications. But its less well-known Copernicus Health Hub, overseen by the European ...

– The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) [1] which establishes an EU shared competence in Space; – The Framework Agreement between the European Union and the European Space Agency ...