Expedition Sound is a podcast series by the European Space Agency (ESA) in which you’re invited to explore the Universe through your ears. Guided by sonifications – the translation of data into sound – host Zsófi Szalavári travels from our Sun out into the depths of space to uncover what the space telescopes of ESA’s science missions teach us about the Universe.

With liftoff scheduled for September, excitement is building at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana as two cutting-edge Earth observation satellites, FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C, have arrived to begin their launch campaigns.

Over the coming weeks, engineers and mission teams will carry out a series of rigorous inspections and prepare the satellites to be installed atop their Vega-C rocket for their journey into orbit.

The European Space Agency has installed its first quantum computer, called Bell-1, at its Earth observation centre in Italy. The move marks a significant step in exploring how quantum technology could be merged with classical high-performance computing to improve the speed and efficiency of processing huge amounts of satellite data.

ESA experts explain the science of eclipses, including visibility and key opportunities for scientific observation.

One year after launch, the first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder satellite, MTG-S1, is now commissioned and has been placed in its operational position in geostationary orbit at 0° longitude, and is now ready to deliver vital data to strengthen weather forecasting across Europe.

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express has spotted a swathe of metallic-looking waves filling Mars’s large Kaiser Crater – an ancient and otherworldly dune field sculpted by wind.