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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 - Data Release news

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    5 Mar 2018

    PROBA-V data available over Antarctica

    Due to a huge amount of interest, it was decided to acquire PROBA-V data over Antarctica from November 2017 to February 2018.

  • News - Success Stories

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    25 Sept 2018

    Spotlight on sea-level rise

    Scientists to share findings on how satellite has revealed changes in the height of the sea, ice, inland bodies of water and more.

  • News - Operational News

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    4 Jan 2019

    Envisat-ERS (A)SAR - Enhanced Dissemination Service

    ESA is pleased to announce the release of several new features as part of the ESA On-The-Fly data processing and dissemination service.

  • News - Data Release news

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    18 Jan 2019

    ALOS PALSAR Ice Polar Year Antarctica dataset now available

    ALOS PALSAR IPY Antarctica dataset is now available to the scientific community through an improved service: it is possible to easily select and download the products from an online map of Antarctica.

  • News - Data Release news

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    7 Mar 2019

    PROBA-V 2018-2019 Antarctica data now available

    For the second consecutive austral summer season, PROBA-V observed Antarctica and its ongoing changes.

  • News - Success Stories

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    14 May 2019

    Mapping salty waters

    The length and precision with which climate scientists can track the salinity, or saltiness, of the oceans is set to improve dramatically.

  • News - Operational News

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    15 May 2019

    PROBA-V global land cover maps released

    Copernicus Global Land Service team have released their new set of global land cover layers for the year 2015.

  • News - Data Release news

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    12 July 2019

    Updated Precise Orbit data (POD) for the full ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission available

    The Precise Orbit files (ERS.ORB.POD) for the entire ERS-1 and ERS-2 mission periods have been reprocessed with up-to-date standards.

  • News - Events and Proceedings

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    21 Oct 2019

    Special event for 10th anniversary of SMOS

    Earth Explorers for Climate - The contribution from SMOS - an event to mark the 10th anniversary of SMOS mission.

  • News - Success Stories

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    20 Dec 2019

    Proba-1 and its 18 years of successful operations

    Launched on 22 October 2001 and originally designed as a two-year mission, Proba-1 continues to provide valuable hyperspectral data to the scientific community, alongside priceless insight of long-lived missions—all while having travelled 4,329,416,712 kilometres to date.

  • News - Success Stories

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    1 Apr 2020

    New life for Landsat historical data

    45 years of data, more than 1.8 million images, these are the numbers of an adventure started 48 years ago with the launch of the first Landsat satellite.

  • News - Infographics

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    21 Apr 2020

    PROBA-V - ESA's vegetation monitoring mission

    ESA's vegetation-monitoring mission - Proba-V - will end operations in June 2020 after seven years.

  • News - Success Stories

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    29 Apr 2020

    Gravity Field Models from Swarm data

    In addition to its geomagnetic objectives, GPS receivers onboard Swarm can and have already been exploited to measure temporal variations in Earth's global gravity field.

  • News - Success Stories

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    30 Apr 2020

    Mission continuity

    Long-term availability of Earth observation data from a given instrument is crucial to many data users and their research—but just how does it work?

  • News - Data Release news

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    15 May 2020

    ESA TPM collection ‘Worldview-2 European Cities’ expanded

    The WorldView-2 European Cities ESA dataset has been enriched with 3,149 additional products.

  • News - General News

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    18 June 2020

    ICEYE data available for assessment

    The SAR user community is invited to participate to the call to assess the suitability of the ICEYE constellation, for science and EO-based applications.

  • News - General News

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    24 June 2020

    PAZ data now available to users worldwide

    ESA is pleased to announce the availability of the PAZ satellite products to the scientific community, for R&D activities and start-ups.

  • News - Operational News

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    10 Aug 2020

    New experimental phase for PROBA-V

    PROBA-V has begun a new experimental phase that will continue through to October 2021.

  • News - Data Release news

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    8 Oct 2020

    RADARSAT data on demand

    In the framework of the Earthnet programme, ESA is distributing RADARSAT data on-demand to support EO science and research activities.

  • News - Data Release news

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    29 Oct 2020

    RADARSAT-2 ESA archive online collection

    The RADARSAT-2 ESA archive collection is now available on TPM LOADS Dissemination server.