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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.
News - Success Stories
17 May 2022Vision-1 to enable cutting-edge science and spur innovation
Vision-1 – which is the result of a collaboration between Airbus Defence and Space and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) – provides sub-metric imagery to support activities across many industries, including urban planning, agricultural monitoring, land classification, natural resource management and disaster monitoring.
News - Data Release news
17 May 2022Vision-1 data now open to users
In the framework of the Third Party Missions programme, ESA is offering, for scientific research and application development, access to archive and new tasking data from the Vision-1 mission upon submission and acceptance of a project proposal.
News - Data Release news
18 Apr 2019Version 2.0 of GOCE thermosphere reprocessed data released
Version 2.0 of the GOCE thermosphere dataset is now available on the GOCE Online Dissemination Service.
News - Data Release news
5 Dec 2019Updated CryoSat magnetometer data now available
An improved version of the CryoSat magnetic field data (version 0102) is now available in the "#CryoSat-2" folder of the ESA FTP server.
News - Operational News
16 Dec 2021Update on Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data missing from 7 November 2021
As a follow-up of the news published on 23 November 2021, we want to update Swarm users about the missing Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_TMS_2F) data since 7 November 2021.
News - Thematic area articles
29 Aug 2023Tracking the world’s forests from space
As human activities continue to threaten the planet’s forests, data delivered by satellites are boosting global efforts to conserve these crucial natural resources.
News - Operational News
12 Feb 2024Temporary interruption to Envisat AATSR dissemination service
A planned downtime will affect the access to the ftp dissemination server for the Envisat AATSR data during the period 13-15 February 2024.
News - Success Stories
16 Dec 2021Swarm’s orbital dance: counter-rotating and closer, for the benefit of science
Since variations in Earth’s magnetic field directly reflect the flow of fluid in the outermost core, new information from Swarm will further our understanding of the physics and dynamics of Earth's stormy heart—and the satellites are recently flying in a counter-rotating phase and closer in their separation, to enable scientists to discover new elements.
News - Success Stories
23 May 2022Swarm unveils magnetic waves deep down
Using information from ESA’s Swarm satellite mission, scientists have discovered a completely new type of magnetic wave that sweeps across the outermost part of Earth’s outer core every seven years.
News - General News
20 May 2020Swarm highlights from first quarter of 2020
A look at the main operational highlights of the Swarm mission in the first quarter of this year.
News - Operational News
15 July 2022Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data production resumed from 1 July 2022
The Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_TMS_2F) products are now available again via the dissemination server.
News - Operational News
16 Dec 2021Swarm EFI LP partial data gap between 7 and 11 December 2021
Some EFI-TII Gain Map Calibration was executed on the three Swarm spacecraft between 7 and 11 December 2021
News - General News
3 Jan 2024Swarm DISC SWITCH Project Final Presentation
The team behind the Swarm DISC project SWITCH will be making their Final Presentation on 10 January 2024, from 15:00-17:00 CET.
News - Success Stories
20 Oct 2022Swarm data help estimate the impact of space weather
Energy from space weather mostly deposits itself as heat in the upper atmosphere, posing risks to satellites orbiting in the same altitude.
News - Operational News
10 June 2019Swarm Charlie: EFI data gap from 2 to 4 June 2019
Due to an issue with the EFI on-board Swarm Charlie, no Langmuir Probe data is available for 2 to 4 June 2019.
News - Operational News
19 July 2019Swarm Charlie: Data gaps on 15 and 16 July 2019
Several tests performed on Swarm on 15 July to investigate an anomaly has caused data gaps for L0, L1A, L1B and L2-Cat2 products.
News - Operational News
6 May 2019Swarm Charlie: Data gaps from 28 April 2019
An onboard anomaly occurred on Swarm Charlie causing data gaps on all L0, L1A and L1B data products from 28 April 2019 onwards.
News - Operational News
9 Aug 2019Swarm Bravo: EFI data gap on 4-5 August 2019
An EFI-TII gain calibration map has been executed between 4 and 5 August 2019 on-board Swarm Bravo.
News - Operational News
20 June 2023Swarm Bravo GPS anomaly on 16 June 2023
A loss of GPS Time Synchronisation registered on Swarm Bravo on 13 June 2023 has affected all of the Swarm Bravo instruments.
News - Operational News
21 May 2019Swarm Alpha: L1B ASM data gap from 13 to 20 May 2019
From 13 to 20 May 2019, the ASM (Absolute Scalar Magnetometer) instrument on board Swarm Alpha was commanded in burst mode.