News and Events
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Aeolus shines a light on polar vortex
Scientists are using wind information from ESA’s Aeolus satellite to shed more light on this complex phenomenon.
News ObservationFebruary 4, 2021 -
Satellites track unusual Saharan dust plume
Every summer, the wind carries large amounts of desert dust particles from the hot and dry Sahara Desert in northern Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. Data from the Copernicus...
News ObservationJuly 16, 2020 -
Provision of Aeolus data
ESA’s Aeolus mission, which provides new information about the winds, has already been described as a success. This remarkable mission has reached a new stage: its data is now...
News ObservationMay 14, 2020 -
COVID-19: Aeolus and weather forecasts
The drop in commercial flights has led to fewer measurements for weather forecasts, but fortunately, ESA’s Aeolus satellite mission is helping to fill the gap.
News ObservationApril 21, 2020 -
Aeolus dodges a SpaceX Starlink satellite
ESA performed a collision avoidance manoeuvre because of a high risk of collision with one of the 60 Starlink satellites.
News ObservationSeptember 5, 2019 -
Aladin flies under a plane
To calibrate Aeolus, a copy of its Aladin instrument is loaded under a plane: it follows the trajectory of the satellite and compares its mesures of the wind with a reference...
News ObservationMarch 6, 2019 -
Aeolus wows with first wind data
Just one week after its launch ESA's Aeolus satellite has exceeded all expectations by delivering its first data on wind – a truly remarkable feat so early in its life in...
News ObservationSeptember 13, 2018
