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 Sentinel-2B satellite launched in March 2017 is part of Europe’s Copernicus system of Earth-observation satellites. Credit: Airbus WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency on July 1 awarded 2.5 ...

Thousands of fires have been breaking out in the Amazon rainforest and the rate of growth has been dramatically increasing, sparking widespread concern among environmentalists, governments and ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Planet Labs Germany GmbH, a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, today announced that they have signed a multi-year contract with the European Space ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The final the final Vega rocket launch occurred late Wednesday from Kourou, French Guiana. In its 12 years of use, the rocket ...

The “ESA and Copernicus Ground Segment Projects Team” in DFD’s International Ground Segment organizational unit is part of a Europe-wide network of reception, archiving and processing centers. Since ...