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Discover the latest news on the European Space Agency's Earth Observation activities. Learn all about new data availability and how ESA's missions are performing.
News - Success Stories
Third Party Mission success stories
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world.
News - Maintenance News
GOSAT maintenance 25 January 2023 – COMPLETED
The GOSAT-2 satellite maintenance has ended, nominal FTS-2 observation and data dissemination has resumed.
News - Data Release news
New version of the SMOS-CryoSat level 4 sea ice thickness product is now available
The new version 205 of the merged SMOS-CryoSat level 4 sea ice thickness product is now available on the SMOS dissemination service
News - Maintenance News
SMOS data dissemination service maintenance
A maintenance activity affecting the SMOS data dissemination service has been planned on the 27th of January.
News - Data Release news
Envisat AATSR 4th Reprocessing data now available
The 4th Reprocessing of the AATSR instrument L1B data stemming from the Envisat satellite have now been released to users following successful quality assessment.
News - Maintenance News
Aeolus ESA Data Dissemination System Maintenance activity completed 25 January 2023
The software maintenance activity on t ESA's Aeolus data dissemination services have been completed on Wednesday 25th of January 2023 Access to the relevant collections restored at 16:30 UTC.
News - Maintenance News
Earth Online Maintenance on 31 January
A scheduled maintenance activity will take place on Earth Online on 31 January.
News - Thematic area articles
Satellites expand research on Space Weather and Sun-Earth Interactions
Earth observation data provide vital warnings about the impact of solar activity and strive to unravel the influence the Sun has on Earth’s system.
News - Operational News
PROBA-1 - End of CHRIS acquisitions
The CHRIS instrument onboard PROBA-1 successfully ended its operational phase in December 2022 and will no longer acquire images.
News - Maintenance News
ESA EO Services - Maintenance on 24 January 2023
Due to a scheduled software maintenance on 24 January 2023 a downtime of around 15 minutes may be experienced on a number of ESA Earth Observation services.
News - Success Stories
Pléiades unlocks information about rock glaciers in central Himalaya
As climate change accelerates the melting of glacial ice, remote sensing scientists are tapping into the potential of Pléiades data to help vulnerable mountainous communities.
News - Data Release news
ALOS PRISM Level 1C data collection now available for users
ESA offers registered users access to the ALOS PRISM (Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument for Stereo Mapping) OB1 L1C data acquired by ESA ground stations in the ADEN zone, plus some worldwide data requested by European scientists.
News - Maintenance News
Aeolus ESA Data Dissemination System Maintenance – 25 January 2023
ESA's Aeolus data dissemination services will be affected by a planned maintenance activity on 25 January 2023.
News - Maintenance News
ESA Third Party Missions collections - maintenance 19 January 2023
A planned software maintenance will affect ESA's Third Party Missions data dissemination service on Thursday 19 January 2023 from 13:00 to 13:30 UTC
News - Maintenance News
Maintenance on EO websites on 14 January
Scheduled maintenance will be taking place on 14 January on several EO websites.
News - Infographics
About cs2eo.org – Accessing combined ESA and NASA altimetry data
cs2eo.org is a free, easy-to-use portal that make it easier and quicker than ever to work with combined CryoSat and ICESat altimetry data.
News - Maintenance News
ESA EO Services - maintenance on 17 January 2023
A software maintenance is scheduled for Tuesday, 17 January 2023 from 09:00 to 15:00 UTC.
News - Operational News
GOSAT data dissemination delay
Due to an equipment anomaly, there is currently a delay in providing GOSAT data after 07 January 2023, at 23:22:04 UTC
News - Data Release news
New CHAMP Neutral Density and Crosswind data sets available
The Thermosphere Observations from Low-Earth Orbiting Satellites (TOLEOS) project, funded by the Swarm DISC, delivered newly reprocessed neutral density and crosswind observations for the entire CHAMP mission.
News - Success Stories
Artificial intelligence tool to improve efficiency of mission design
ESA have developed a method to automatically extract critical information from space mission data to populate a Knowledge Graph. This tool aims to improve knowledge reuse when designing new missions.