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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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News - General News
News - General News
CryoSat Data Temporarily Unavailable
CryoSat data users are reminded that on 8 April 2021, a 4-hour downtime of the EONet Central Firewalls has been planned from 14.00 to 19.00 CET.
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News - General News
News - General News
New SMOS infographic
Learn more about the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission in our latest infographic
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Water mission takes on space weather
Adding to SMOS’ list of talents, new findings show that what was considered noise in the mission’s data can actually be used to monitor solar activity and space weather, which can damage communication and navigation systems.
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News - General News
News - General News
CryoSat-2 and ICESat-2 Coincident Data Explorer
The new Cryo2Ice Coincident Data Explorer is now live and fully operational.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Planned maintenance of WAN equipment at Kiruna
CryoSat-2 data users are informed that due to planned maintenance of the WAN equipment in Kiruna on Wednesday, March 24th, they could experience a delay in Near Real Time and Near Real Time Ocean Products (NOP) availability on the ESA Science Server throughout the day.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Recent CryoSat NRT Products Quality Issue Fixed
CryoSat Ice Near Real Time (NRT) data users are informed that starting today NRT products have been switched to a systematic production. This means that, from now on, all SAR and SIN transitions will be generated in NRT.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
CryoSat FDM production to end
Starting on 1 February 2021, CryoSat-2 Fast Delivery Marine (FDM) data production will be disabled.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
Using Satellite Data to Predict Floods and Droughts
Scientists are turning to remote sensing to fill the in-situ data gap in hydrological data models in some parts of the world.
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News - General News
News - General News
New Campaign datasets available
A new set of datasets is available, acquired during airborne campaigns conducted between 2014 and 2019
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
CryoSat Science Server parallel FTP sessions reminder
CryoSat Science Server users are reminded that, by policy, they cannot have more than 10 parallel FTP sessions opened at one time for download.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
A Closer Look at CRYO2ICE Manoeuvres
Between 16 and 31 July 2020, ESA raised the orbit of Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 to periodically align with NASA’s ICESat-2 in a campaign dubbed CRYO2ICE.
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News - Scientific Highlights
News - Scientific Highlights
CryoSat-2 Data Used to Measure Ionospheric Currents
A new study has shown that navigation magnetometer data from the CryoSat-2 and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites can be used to diagnose weak low-/mid-latitude ionospheric currents.
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News - General News
News - General News
New CryoSat infographic
CryoSat - ESA's ice mission - recently celebrated ten years in space, during which it has provided invaluable data for research. To mark the anniversary we put together an infographic about the mission and its many achievements.
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News - General News, Scientific Highlights
News - General News, Scientific Highlights
Systematic swath elevation and monthly DEMs over the Antarctica Ice Sheet margin from CryoSat 2
Land-ice is declining globally, raising sea levels worldwide and impacting glacial risks and access to fresh-water in high-mountain glaciers regions.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
CryoSat Daily Quality Control delays
CryoSat Quality Control (QC) is currently experiencing delays due to a temporary anomaly.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
CRYO2ICE Orbit Raising Campaign: Data Quality Status
During the CRYO2ICE Orbit Raising Campaign, the CryoSat QC team monitored data production between the orbit manoeuvres and performed detailed checks of all Near Real Time (NRT) data generated.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
ESA OTF dissemination - Maintenance on 23 July 2020
A software maintenance activity affecting the On-The-Fly (OTF) ESA data dissemination service infrastructure has been planned on 23 July 2020.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
SIRAL measurements continue during CRYO2ICE
On 16 July, ESA is kicking off its CRYO2ICE campaign that aims to raise CryoSat-2's orbit by approximately 900 metres, bringing it in sync with NASA's ICESat-2.
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News - General News
News - General News
CRYO2ICE is now on Earth Online
On 16 July, ESA is kicking off the CRYO2ICE campaign that will raise the orbit of its CryoSat-2 satellite to periodically align with NASA’s ICESat-2.
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News - Operational News
News - Operational News
Complete CryoSat Ice Baseline D reprocessed dataset now available
We're pleased to inform the CryoSat scientific community that the full reprocessed CryoSat Ice Baseline D data are now available on the Science Server for download