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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 - Events and Proceedings

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    9 Apr 2024

    Featuring the power of Earth observation data at EGU

    The European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024 brings together geoscientists from all over the world, aiming to provide a forum where scientists and early career researchers can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts, in all fields of geoscience.

  • News - Infographics

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    12 Mar 2024

    Showcasing success stories from ESA's Heritage Missions

    Find out how ESA's Heritage Space Programme data continue to help, even decades after they finished operations, in our latest infographic.

  • News - General News

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    27 Feb 2024

    Go-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

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    23 Feb 2024

    GEOSAT-2 Spain Coverage 2022 collection open to users

    ESA’s Earthnet Third Party Missions Programme presents the latest addition to its collection: the GEOSAT-2 Spain Coverage 2022.

  • News - Maintenance News

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    21 Feb 2024

    CryoSat CalVal server downtime on 27 February 2024

    Due to routine maintenance activities on 27 February 2024, between 08:00-10:00 UTC, the distribution of CryoSat L0 products and AUX files may be impacted.

  • News - Data Release news

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    21 Feb 2024

    CryoSat swath data boosted with new glacier regions and gridded products

    Additional products have been added to CryoTEMPO-EOLIS Baseline 2, increasing global coverage and adding to the range of available gridded data.

  • News - Operational News

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    15 Feb 2024

    Announcement for CryoSat Quaternions Product users

    CryoSat users who use the Quaternions Products should be aware that the method to access these products is changing.

  • News - Success Stories

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    7 Feb 2024

    Trailblazing ERS-2 mission enables climate change applications

    As ESA’s ERS-2 satellite approaches Earth’s atmosphere for reentry, it’s time to reflect on the mission’s great achievements in powering climate-related applications.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    30 Jan 2024

    Space data support Earth’s ecosystems

    ESA’s Earth observation (EO) missions are making a critical contribution to monitoring transformations in our planet’s ecosystems, helping track changes in the vegetation, soil, and ocean that affect these systems.

  • News - Operational News

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    12 Jan 2024

    Delay in the availability of CryoSat Products

    A technical issue occurred at the CryoSat Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS).

  • News - Data Release news

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    28 Nov 2023

    GEOSAT-2 Spain coverage new collection open for users

    In the framework of ESA’s Earthnet Third Party Missions programme, we are glad to announce that there is a new collection open for users: the GEOSAT-2 Spain Coverage collection.

  • News - Success Stories

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    24 Nov 2023

    CryoSat safe and sound

    A fuel leak aboard the CryoSat satellite threatened to bring the mission to an end in 2025 however operators at ESOC initiated a swap to a back-up system thus saving the satellite for years to come.

  • News - Announcement of Opportunity updates

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    8 Nov 2023

    Dragon 6 ESA and NRSCC Call for proposals now open

    The European Space Agency (ESA) jointly with the National Remote Sensing Center of China (NRSCC) / Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), is pleased to announce the release of the Dragon 6 Cooperation Call for proposals.

  • News - Data Release news

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    18 Sept 2023

    CryoSat Ice Baseline-E Reprocessed Data - Update

    Previously, quality checks of the Ice Baseline-E reprocessing products observed a discrepancy in the metadata of products with incremented version numbers (E002, E003).

  • News - Success Stories

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    31 Aug 2023

    New CryoSat data to boost understanding of the oceans

    A new CryoSat sea level anomaly product designed to enable ocean science and the development of operational marine applications has been released.

  • News - Thematic area articles

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    29 Aug 2023

    Tracking 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 - Data Release news

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    24 Aug 2023

    Envisat MIPAS data now available on new ESA Dissemination Server

    The latest reprocessed Envisat MIPAS Level 1 and Level 2 datasets have now been migrated from simple FTP access to the new Online Dissemination service for ESA Heritage Missions (HM) Atmospheric data.

  • News - Success Stories

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    17 Aug 2023

    Commercial 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 - Data Release news

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    28 July 2023

    CryoSat Ice Baseline-E Reprocessed Data - Update

    Quality checks of the Ice Baseline-E reprocessing products have observed a discrepancy in the metadata of products with incremented version numbers.

  • News - Infographics

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    5 July 2023

    Focusing on Envisat MERIS Full Resolution Level-2 data

    ESA's Envisat mission continued and expanded upon the legacy of its predecessors, the ERS (European Remote Sensing) satellites. Operating between 2002 and 2012, the satellite's 10 instruments acquired a decade of data for many applications.