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Latest Data Release News
New campaign dataset supports validation of upcoming FORUM mission
A new dataset has been released for the FINESSE at Andøya campaign, which took place in Norway in 2023....
New campaign dataset supports validation of WIVERN mission
A new dataset has been released for the WIVERNex-UK campaign, which took place in the United Kingdom in 2023....
Cryo-TEMPO gets new Summer Sea Ice product
CryoSat’s remarkable 14-year record of global ice and sea levels got another upgrade with the release of Cryo-TEMPO baseline C, which includ...
Additional EFI TII Cross Track Flow dataset 0302 available for Swarm
Additional TII cross-track flow data is now available on the Swarm dissemination server for all the Swarm satellites....
Success Stories
Improving air quality monitoring with inter-agency cooperation
As urban area’s expand, our planet grapples with a relentless environmental challenge: air pollution. Remote sensing satellites play a criti...
Ten years of Swarm data help reveal processes in Earth’s core
The tenth birthday of ESA’s three-satellite Swarm constellation has been a game changer for research into Earth’s magnetic field and core dy...
How scientists are unlocking the potential of SAOCOM
A team of scientists has drawn on SAOCOM data to measure the heights of forests in Argentina, marking the first time that tree canopies have...
Magnetic magic: 10 reasons to be excited about Swarm
In November 2023, Swarm celebrated an impressive ten years in orbit. In that time, ESA’s magnetic mission has honed in on all sorts of myste...
Spotlight on EO Community News
Spotlight on Third Party Mission provider: EUSI
European Space Imaging (EUSI) is one of ESA’s suppliers of commercial Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery for scientific research i...
Meet the Earth Online Editorial & Graphics Services Team
The Earth Online Editorial Service produces diverse publications, which facilitate ESA and TPM data discovery and exploitation, ensuring tha...
Introducing the Earth Observation Principal Investigators Team
Third Party Missions (TPMs) are Earth Observation (EO) missions that are owned or operated by other agencies. ESA has an agreement with thes...
An overview of the EarthCARE mission
In this video, meet Björn Frommknecht, Mission Manager of ESA's upcoming EarthCARE satellite....
Operational News
Transition from FTP to FTPS for GOSAT data dissemination system
With the aim of improving security in ESA dissemination systems, as of 20 June 2024 access to the GOSAT data will be changed from simple FTP...
GOSAT-2 FTS-2 observations suspended from 10 to 31 May 2024
Due to an upcoming inclination control manoeuvre to be conducted by JAXA on the GOSAT-2 satellite, the FTS-2 sensor observations will be sus...
Swarm Bravo on-board anomaly on 10 April 2024
Due to an issue on-board Swarm Bravo, the vector magnetic field data from the VFM instrument are not available from 10 April 2024 at 12:54 t...
Improved data latency for FAST data generation over Northern Europe
We are pleased to announce that thanks to the effort of the Swarm Flight Operations Team and DISC partners, a down-link optimisation strateg...
Maintenance News
GEOSAT-2 Spain Coverage maintenance on dissemination service from 13-15 March 2024
A software maintenance activity has been scheduled between 13 and 15 March for both of the GEOSAT Spain Coverage data collections....
EO-CAT software maintenance - 14 March 2024
A scheduled software maintenance will affect ESA’s Earth Observation Data Catalogue EO-CAT on Thursday 14 March 2024 from 08:00 to 11:00 UTC...
CryoSat CalVal server downtime on 27 February 2024
Due to routine maintenance activities on 27 February 2024, between 08:00-10:00 UTC, the distribution of CryoSat L0 products and AUX files ma...
Maintenance on Earth Online on 20 February
A maintenance activity is scheduled on Earth Online from 08:00 to 14:00 UTC on 20 February....