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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.
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Transforming space data into climate action
ESA’s Earth observation activities are playing a key role in the revitalised global drive to combat climate change.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination maintenance – 20 June 2022
A planned software maintenance activity will affect some of ESA's data dissemination services on 20 June 2022.
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News - Events and Proceedings
News - Events and Proceedings
Highlights from Living Planet Symposium
As remote sensing scientists and data-users from around the world converged at the Living Planet Symposium (LPS) in Bonn recently, a common thread was evident in many scientific sessions and meetings – the right environmental data can accelerate our understanding of the rapid changes in Earth’s system.
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News - Events and Proceedings
News - Events and Proceedings
Data preservation takes centre stage at Living Planet Symposium
Against the backdrop of the famed Rhine River, world-class scientists and Earth observation data-users are gathered this week in the historical city of Bonn, at the Living Planet Symposium (LPS).
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News - General News
News - General News
Interviewing Mirko Albani
ESA’s Heritage Space Programme Manager describes the goals of the programme, some of the challenges involved in preserving and improving 40 years of historical Earth observation data, and his passion for curating this long-term archive.
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News - General News
News - General News
Introducing Mirko Albani
In this short introduction, ESA's Heritage Missions Programme Manager describes what he likes most about ESA's long term archive of satellite mission data and his role in the programme.
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News - General News
News - General News
Heritage Missions timeline
ESA's Heritage Space Programme preserves historical data from over 40 years of Earth observation missions.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination maintenance – 22 - 24 November 2021
A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA's data dissemination services from Monday 22 November to Wednesday 24 November 2021.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA Third Party Missions collections maintenance 15 November 2021
A planned software maintenance will affect ESA's Third Party Missions data dissemination service next Monday 15 November 2021 from 07:30 to 08:30 UTC
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News - General News
News - General News
Third Party Missions infographic
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
ERS' Contribution to Altimetry
Satellite radar altimetry missions have transformed the way we see Earth and its oceans. Using the ranging capability of radars, they measure the surface topography profile along a satellite’s track.
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News - General News
News - General News
ESA Third Party Missions timeline
We've released a new timeline to illustrate the history of the ESA Third Party Missions.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination - Maintenance on 17 August 2021
Due to a scheduled software patching campaign on 17 August, a series of data dissemination services will experience a short downtime.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
MERCI (A)ATSR web interface - Maintenance 28 July 2021
A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA's MERCI web interface, providing access to ERS and Envisat (A)ATSR data collections, on 28 July.
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News - Data Release news
News - Data Release news
New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July. Today, we are still exploiting ERS data and experts continue to work on improving the altimeter, radiometer and SAR data the programme acquired.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination maintenance 22 July 2021
A planned software maintenance will affect ESA's data dissemination services on 22 July 2021.
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News - Success Stories
News - Success Stories
ERS Heritage Data allow for 30 years of science
At their time of launch thirty years ago, the two ERS satellites were the most sophisticated Earth observation spacecraft ever developed and launched by Europe.
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News - General News
News - General News
New ERS infographic
To mark the occasion of the 30th anniversary of ERS, we've released a new infographic summarising the mission.
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News - Maintenance News
News - Maintenance News
ESA data dissemination maintenance 13 July 2021
A planned software maintenance activity will affect ESA’s ERS/Envisat (A)SAR and ALOS PALSAR data dissemination services on 13 July 2021
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News - General News
News - General News
Full version of QRAS Portal released
The new, full version, of the Quality Reports Advanced Search (QRAS) Portal launched today, adding new features to support users looking for Quality Control Reports on ESA and Third Party Missions.