- All Categories
- Data
- News
- Missions
- Events
- Tools
- Activities
- Instruments
- Campaigns
- Documents
NEWS
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 - Maintenance News
23 Mar 2023SMOS - Planned maintenance on 29 March 2023
Due to planned maintenance activities at Ifremer, the "SMOS Ocean Wind products" collection will not be regularly updated from 2023/03/29 at 4:00 UTC to 2023/03/30, until full operations resume.
News - Thematic area articles
23 Mar 2023Remote Sensing data underpin research on Soil
Environmental data disseminated by ESA’s Earth observation programmes provide knowledge about the stresses on Earth’s soils – aiding many applications such as crop management, drought and flood forecasting, and ecosystem protection.
News - Data Release news
22 Mar 2023Additional 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.
News - Data Release news
22 Mar 2023Additional EFI TII Raw And Corrected Imagery and Spectra (TRACIS) dataset 0102 available for Swarm
Additional EFI TII Raw And Corrected Imagery and Spectra (TRACIS) data is now available on the Swarm dissemination server for all the Swarm satellites.
News - General News
21 Mar 2023ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025
Since 2009, ESA’s Earth Explorer missions have pioneered breakthrough technologies and transformed our understanding of Earth’s system, from its core to the outer stretches of the atmosphere.
News - General News
17 Mar 2023Introducing Tommaso Parrinello
In this short introduction, ESA's Aeolus and CryoSat Mission Manager, Tommaso Parrinello, describes his role in these two diverse missions.
News - Infographics
16 Mar 2023Showcasing the atmosphere-studying Odin mission
Learn about the Odin mission in our new infographic.
News - Announcement of Opportunity updates
14 Mar 2023Researchers called to explore new applications of SAOCOM data
ESA has invited Earth observation experts to devise and propose innovative applications for data delivered by Argentinian remote sensing constellation SAOCOM.
News - Data Release news
8 Mar 2023Aeolus Level-2A old Baseline-11 data now publicly available
We are pleased to inform Aeolus users that 3232 Level 2A products in Baseline 11 that were not previously released are now available for browsing and download on the Aeolus Dissemination server.
News - Thematic area articles
3 Mar 2023Monitoring water on Earth's surface
ESA's Earth observation satellites are playing a leading role in furthering our understanding of how Earth's terrestrial hydrosphere is being influenced by humankind.
News - Data Release news
1 Mar 2023New data available: GEOSAT-2 Portugal Coverage 2021
A new collection is available to the public through ESA’s Earthnet Third Party Missions Programme: the GEOSAT-2 Portugal Coverage 2021.
News - Data Release news
22 Feb 2023New BorealScat campaign dataset released
A new dataset has been released for the BorealScat campaign, which took place between 2017 and 2021 in Sweden.
News - Data Release news
17 Feb 2023TanSat AGCS and CAPI products now available for users
In the framework of Earthnet’s Third Party Missions Programme, ESA is opening a new TanSat collection to users, freely accessible and available worldwide upon submission of a fast registration.
News - General News
8 Feb 2023Pioneering science missions: Summarising ESA’s Earth Explorers
Designed for research purposes, ESA's Earth Explorer missions are dedicated to monitoring parts of Earth’s system. Learn more about the Earth Explorers in this video.
News - Success Stories
7 Feb 2023ESA’s wind mission helps investigate the nature of volcanic plumes
An analysis that drew on wind profiles from ESA’s Aeolus mission has resulted in an unexpected discovery concerning the structure and behaviour of plumes emanating from the eruption of the Raikoke volcano in 2019.
News - Maintenance News
26 Jan 2023Aeolus 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 - Thematic area articles
24 Jan 2023Satellites 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 - Success Stories
17 Jan 2023Pléiades 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
20 Dec 2022Improved Aeolus wind data now available
ESA’s Aeolus mission continues to advance weather forecasting with further data improvements, thanks to a third reprocessing campaign.
News - Success Stories
16 Dec 2022Atmosphere-studying Odin mission enjoys ongoing success
More than two decades after it began operations, the Odin remote sensing satellite is continuing to make strong contributions to high-impact atmospheric science.