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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
5 July 2018Envisat Altimetry Full Mission Reprocessing V3.0
The ESA Envisat Altimetry Full Mission Reprocessing has been completed with the generation of the V3.0 mission data set.
News - General News
27 Sept 2018Satellite Radar Altimetry: past and future
Satellite radar altimetry measurements yield a wealth of information that can be used for a wide range of applications.
News - Data Release news
6 Dec 2018GOME TCWV Climate product available online
GOME Total Column Water Vapour (TCWV) Climate product developed within the ESA GOME-Evolution project is now accessible from the ESA data archives together with the ERS-2 GOME data.
News - Operational News
4 Jan 2019Envisat-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
22 Jan 2019Envisat MIPAS L1 dataset processed with MICAL v8.03 available online
The Level 1 reprocessing of the full Envisat MIPAS mission with the ESA MICAL processor version 8.03 has been completed and the data has been assessed with respect to the quality. The reprocessed dataset is now accessible from the ESA dissemination server.
News - Operational News
15 Feb 2019EOLi-SA now dismissed
EOLi-SA Catalogue and Ordering Service is now dismissed and replaced by the ESA Simple Online Catalogue which was released in early January 2019.
News - Success Stories
16 May 2019A quarter of glacier ice in West Antarctica is now unstable
Scientists have discovered warming ocean waters have caused ice to thin so rapidly that 24% of glacier ice in West Antarctica is now affected.
News - Data Release news
13 June 2019ERS-1 Scatterometer L2 dataset processed with ASPS v10.04 is available online
The reprocessed dataset together with corresponding ERS-2 data is now available.
News - Success Stories
5 July 2019What's happening to Greenland's ice?
Heatwave conditions catapulted Greenland into an early Arctic summer in June, prompting widespread melting across its icesheet surface.
News - Data Release news
12 July 2019Updated 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 - Success Stories
6 Mar 2020Heritage data still widely used today
For about 30 years now, ESA satellites have been cruising some 800 km above our heads, collecting information about our planet-but why are older missions still so fundamental today?
News - Success Stories
30 Apr 2020Mission 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 - Success Stories
2 July 2020The Earthnet Programme: 40 years of evolution and future challenges
ESA's Earthnet Programme provided the initial means to access and exploit Earth Observation data.
News - Data Release news
14 July 2020Release of Envisat MERIS 4th reprocessing data
The data from the 4th MERIS reprocessing has been released to users and is now freely available from the new ESA Online Dissemination Service for MERIS.
News - Infographics
15 Sept 2020ESA's Heritage missions programme - Preserving over 40 years of historical data
Learn more about ESA’s Earth observation Heritage missions in our new infographic.
News - General News
29 Sept 2020ESA's new DataCube service is now available
ESA is pleased to announce the deployment of a new service, called ESA PDGS-DataCube, enabling multi-temporal and pixel-based access to a subset of the data available in the European Space Agency dissemination services.
News - General News
29 Sept 2020ESA’s Earth Observation Catalogue and its services
EO-CAT is the EO Catalogue tool allowing users to search ESA and Third Party Mission collections.
News - Success Stories
20 Oct 2020Charter on major disasters celebrates 20 years of operations
The International Charter Space and Major Disasters is now 20 years old.
News - Infographics
3 Dec 2020Envisat - ESA's versatile Earth observation satellite
Learn more about ESA's Envisat mission - the largest Earth observation satellite ever built - in a new infographic.
News - Success Stories
4 Mar 2021A stroll through Heritage Missions
At ESA's Earth Observation centre—ESRIN—in Frascati, Italy, there is a place where one can walk back in time, to better understand the history and importance of Heritage Missions and their data.