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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
8 May 2018ESA will continue to provide ocean colour data from Indian mission
To further promote research and applications, ESA and a leading geo-information company agree to continue data acquisition from OceanSat-2.
News - Data Release news
20 June 2018New ERS-2 GOME Level 1 v5.1 dataset available online
A new GOME Level 1b dataset has been generated for the 16-year mission period bringing relevant quality improvements for the revised calibration approach, compensating aging and instrument degradation, and provide enhanced accessibility.
News - Success Stories
12 July 2018Copernicus Sentinel-5P releases first data
Following months of tests and careful evaluation, the first data on air pollutants from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite have been released.
News - Success Stories
9 Aug 2018Satellite data allows real-time detection of potential fires
A pilot Fire Detection Service, based on real-time processing of Landsat-8 data being assessed within the framework of ESA's Earthnet Programme.
News - Success Stories
25 Sept 2018Spotlight 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 - 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 - Success Stories
4 Mar 2019Methane and ozone data products from Copernicus Sentinel-5P
Sentinel-5P used to produce global maps of atmospheric gases, methane and ozone, to give insight into where these gases are coming from.
News - Success Stories
6 Mar 2019Odin celebrates 18 years in orbit
ESA is proud to celebrate the excellent long-lasting performance of the Swedish-led Odin mission.
News - Operational News
2 May 2019Landsat-8 web portal now available on new environment
The Landsat-8 Portal service has been migrated to a new server and is accessible on the previous web address.
News - Success Stories
13 May 2019ESA's Earth Explorers surpassing expectations
In this video, learn how each Earth Explorer mission is contributing to Earth science, and changing the way we look at our beloved planet.
News - Success Stories
14 May 2019Mapping 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 - Data Release news
16 July 2019Release of new GOSAT FTS L1 products
New release of GOSAT FTS L1 products v220.220 - GOSAT data can be retrieved from the dissemination server at ftp://gosat-ds.eo.esa.int
News - Data Release news
12 Aug 2019PlanetScope and SkySat data now available
PlanetScope and SkySat missions under evaluation. Interested users can investigate suitability of the data for scientific and R&D activities.
News - Success Stories
21 Apr 2020COVID-19: Aeolus and weather forecasts
The drop in commercial flights has led to fewer measurements for weather forecasts, but fortunately, ESA’s Aeolus satellite mission is helping to fill the gap.
News - Data Release news
28 Sept 2020Spire data now open to users
Following the submission of a project proposal, data from the Spire mission are now available.
News - Infographics
16 July 2021ERS - ESA’s first Earth observation satellites
To mark the 30th anniversary of ERS, we've released a new infographic summarising the mission.
News - Success Stories
19 July 2021ERS Heritage Data allow for 30 years of science
At their time of launch thirty years ago, the two ERS satellites were the most sophisticated Earth observation spacecraft ever developed and launched by Europe.
News - Data Release news
22 July 2021New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
The ERS programme celebrated its 30th anniversary on 17 July. Today, we are still exploiting ERS data and experts continue to work on improving the altimeter, radiometer and SAR data the programme acquired.
News - General News
21 Dec 2021Updated SMOS documentation available
Updated versions of several SMOS data documents are now available.
News - Spotlight on EO community
4 Mar 2022Introducing Mirko Albani
In this short introduction, ESA's Heritage Missions Programme Manager describes what he likes most about ESA's long term archive of satellite mission data and his role in the programme.