Despite this new satellite only being in orbit for three weeks and the commissioning is at a very early stage, its Microwave Sounder (MWS) and Radio Occultation (RO) sounder are already returning early “first glimpse” data, marking a significant milestone in a new era of European weather and climate monitoring. 

On July 23, 2025, NASA successfully launched its Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. 

This image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 shows circular agricultural structures near Tabarjal in the barren desert of northern Saudi Arabia. 

Since launching in 2023, NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution mission, or TEMPO, has been measuring the quality of the air we breathe from 22,000 miles above the ground.

ESA revealed the first images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission, marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle. 

The Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission captured sulphur dioxide emissions from Mount Etna’s eruption on June 2, 2025.

In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially hazardous flood waves traveling down U.S. rivers.

Thanks largely to the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, scientists have discovered that the fast-flowing Kohler East glacier in Antarctica is rapidly siphoning ice from a neighboring flow at a pace never before seen.

Copernicus Sentinel-1 captured this radar image over French Guiana–home to Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, where ESA’s Biomass mission is being prepared for liftoff on April 29, 2025, onboard a Vega-C rocket.