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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 - Infographics
19 Mar 2024Explore sample data products from Third Party Missions
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of over 50 satellite missions from commercial and public organisations worldwide.
News - General News
27 Feb 2024Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering
ESA’s latest Third Party Missions Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current or past Third Party Missions.
News - Data Release news
13 Feb 2024Sample data products from ESA’s Third Party Missions
Samples of data products from a range of Third Party Missions are now available to download, offering a preview of what these missions provide.
News - Thematic area articles
7 Dec 2023How to use space data to probe humankind’s ancient past
Data disseminated by ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are enabling archaeological investigations that could help to unravel the mysteries of past societies and cultures.
News - Success Stories
26 Oct 2023Monitoring the health of wheat crops from space
Very high resolution space data can be used to improve the detection of a plant disease that impacts a major global cereal crop.
News - Success Stories
22 Aug 2023Commercial space data help to regreen grasslands in Africa
Commercial satellite imagery made available through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme is guiding an ambitious community-focused initiative to regrow natural grasslands in Sub-Saharan Africa.
News - Success Stories
17 Aug 2023Commercial and international data for fire monitoring
As climate change sparks a surge in the frequency and intensity of wildfires, satellite data disseminated through ESA’s Third Party Missions (TPM) programme are helping scientists to track and investigate these potentially damaging natural events.
News - General News
16 Feb 2023International collaboration: Summarising ESA’s Third Party Missions
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of more than 50 missions from around the world. Learn more about the Third Party Missions in this video.
News - Data Release news
6 Oct 2022PAZ ESA archive now open to users
The PAZ ESA archive collection is now freely available for researchers worldwide through ESA's Third Party Missions programme.
News - Thematic area articles
29 Sept 2022How satellite data help to shape society
Data from ESA’s Earth observation archives are improving understanding of the interactions between human activities and the environment, helping to power green economic development and boosting prosperity in Europe and beyond.
News - Thematic area articles
16 Aug 2022Satellites reveal changes to Earth’s icy zones
ESA’s Earth observation activities are helping scientists investigate the influence of climate change on widespread ice-losses across the planet.
News - Data Release news
26 July 2022Two new ESA archive collections have been opened for PlanetScope and SkySat
PlanetScope ESA archive and SkySat ESA archive collections are available through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme via Fast Approval Registration.
News - Data Release news
20 May 2022PlanetScope and Skysat data available through ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme
Through ESA’s Third Party Missions Programme, researchers, scientists and companies from around the world can apply to access Planet’s high-frequency, high-resolution satellite data for non-commercial use.
News - Success Stories
5 May 2022Predicting crop yield using Planet data
The world’s population continues to grow, while the climate crisis is raising Earth’s temperatures and increasing the likelihood of extreme weather events – all of which affect food security.
News - Infographics
20 Apr 2022PlanetScope and SkySat - The high-resolution nanosatellite constellation
Find out more about the PlanetScope and SkySat missions in our new infographic.
News - Success Stories
17 Mar 2022New open-source Python library improves rapid mapping services
In emergency services, rapid response is paramount. ICube-SERTIT’s Rapid Mapping Service provides near real-time delivery of geo-information to help emergency services respond quickly to disasters such as flooding, fires and landslides. A new Python open-source library, called EOReader, speeds up this mapping response by enabling the easy opening of imagery from multiple satellite sensors, both optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR).
News - Success Stories
17 Feb 2022PAZ - Spain's radar success
One way of collecting images in unfavourable weather is to use Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). PAZ is one such Earth observation mission capable of delivering all-weather imagery thanks to its X-band SAR.
News - Infographics
15 Feb 2022An overview of the PAZ SAR satellite mission
Learn more about the PAZ mission, a Spanish X-Band SAR satellite and part of ESA's Third Party Missions programme, in our latest infographic.
News - Data Release news
18 Jan 2022New imaging modes added to PAZ collection
Two new imaging modes, Wide ScanSAR and Staring Spotlight, have been added to the PAZ offering and are now available to users for research and application development following submission of a project proposal subject to evaluation and acceptance by ESA and the data owner.
News - Infographics
8 Nov 2021An overview of ESA's Third Party Missions programme
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