Greece deploys first national ICEYE radar satellites for disaster monitoring
Two new ICEYE radar satellites have entered service under Greece's National Small Satellite Programme, expanding the country's capacity to track floods, wildfires, landslides and other hazards as well as areas of security interest on land and at sea.
The pair of synthetic aperture radar spacecraft were launched on 28 November 2025 on SpaceX's Transporter-15 rideshare mission from Vandenber Italian Earth observation fleet gains eight new IRIDE satellites
Italy's IRIDE Earth observation programme has expanded with the launch of eight Eaglet II satellites, adding a second constellation to the growing national fleet. The spacecraft rode into orbit on a Falcon 9 mission that lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 19:44 CET on 28 November, with deployment completed about an hour after launch and signals from all satellites later Earth from Space: Singing dunes and mysterious lakes
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This Copernicus Sentinel-1 image features part of the Badain Jaran Desert in northwestern China. Hubble reobserves 3I/ATLAS
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million km from Earth. Hubble tracked the comet as it moved across the sky. As a result, background stars appear as streaks of light.
Hubble previously observed 3I/ATLAS in July, shortly after its discovery, and a number of observatories have since studied the comet as well. Observations are expected to continue for several more months as 3I/ATLAS heads out of the solar system.
For the latest updates and FAQs related to comet 3I/ATLAS, see
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Week in images: 01-05 December 2025
Week in images: 01-05 December 2025
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