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• News - Success Stories

  

  News - Success Stories

  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.

• 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.

• Activity - Projects

  Activity - Projects

  Dragon 2 Cooperation Programme

  The Dragon Programme is a joint undertaking between ESA and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China designed to encourage increased exploitation of ESA and Chinese Earth Observation satellite data within China.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  Spacelab-in-context.pdf

  This document provides an overview of Spacelab, a joint ESA-NASA laboratory that was carried aboard space shuttles from 1981 to 2000.

• Tools - Apps

  

  Tools - Apps

  Heritage Missions app for iOS

  Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

• Tools - Apps

  

  Tools - Apps

  Heritage Missions app for Android

  Download the Heritage Missions application to discover what the missions were about, how it worked and what the elements of the space and ground segment that make these missions unique.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  In-action-around-the-world-the-International-Charter-Space-and-Major-Disasters.pdf

  This is an article extracted from the ESA Bulletin Nr.143.

• Document - Technical Note

  

  Document - Technical Note

  ESRIN-ERS-Central-Facility-GAP-Files-Interface-Specification.pdf

  This document specifies the interface through which files of data related to the Global Activity Plan (GAP), stored in the ESRIN ERS Central Facility (EECF), are transmitted to the external entities. The EECF systems involved in this data exchange are the Interface Subset (ISS), responsible for telecommunication aspects and preprocessing, and the Central User Service (CUS), where the GAP resides.

• Document - Technical Note

  

  Document - Technical Note

  ERS-National-and-Foreign-Stations-Operators-Working-Group.pdf

  This document presents material from the ERS National and Foreign Ground Station Operators Working Group Meeting, which took place in Toulouse, France, from 14 to 15 December 1995.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  ARTEMIS-Paving-the-way-for-Europes-future-data-relay-land-mobile-and-Navigation-Services.pdf

  This brochure provides an overview of Artemis, ESAs telecommunications satellite.

• Document - General Reference

  

  Document - General Reference

  Understanding climate change from space

  This document describes ESA's Climate Change Initiative, and how it is intended to contribute towards monitoring and understanding the Earth's climate.

• Document - Proceedings

  

  Document - Proceedings

  3rd-ERS-Symposium-Space-at-the-Service-of-our-Environment.pdf

  Proceedings of the 3rd ERS Symposium 'Space at the Service of our Environment', held on 14-21 March 1997 in Florence, Italy. 3 Volumes.

• Document - Proceedings

  

  Document - Proceedings

  2nd-Conference-on-Academic-and-Industrial-Cooperation-in-Space-Research.pdf

  This document describes the proceedings of the second conference on academic and industrial cooperation in space research, held in Graz, Austria, 15-17 November 2000.

• Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

  

  Instrument - Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers

  ATSR

  The Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) on board ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission consisted of two instruments, an Infra-Red Radiometer and a Microwave Sounder.