In the spring of 2025, the Soviet-built Cosmos-482 Descent Craft, originally designed to land on Venus, instead began making an uncontrolled re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

Biodiverse ecosystems are essential to the overall health of our planet. That’s why much of the world – EU Member States among them – has pledged to protect and restore global biodiversity.

Each year, EU Space data and services help rescue 2 000 people in distress.

Civilian flights use EGNOS for more than just navigation: aircraft rely on navigation signals to help them land safely. That’s where EGNOS’ Safety of Life (SoL) service comes in.

On 18 October 2025, one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites acquired this image of Gothenburg, Sweden’s second largest city. Gothenburg is located on the country’s western coast along the Kattegat, the strait between Denmark and Sweden which forms part of the maritime link between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Gothenburg is among the...