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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
30 Apr 2024Cryo-TEMPO gets new Summer Sea Ice product
CryoSat’s remarkable 14-year record of global ice and sea levels got another upgrade with the release of Cryo-TEMPO baseline C, which includes lots of new features and improvements.
News - Data Release news
15 Apr 2024New Ocean data and more boost CryoSat data platform
Eight new datasets have been added to the CS2EO platform to support, enhance, and simplify research using CryoSat data. They include the CryoSat Ocean Product, and the Cryo-TEMPO Land Ice, Sea Ice, Polar Ocean, Coastal Ocean and Inland Water datasets.
News - Events and Proceedings
9 Apr 2024Featuring 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 - General News
8 Apr 2024ESA's improved Earth system data records: what is in store for the future?
Fundamental Data Records (FDRs) are instrumental in advancing our understanding of Earth systems and for addressing societal challenges effectively. These long-term records contain uncertainty-quantified, calibrated and geo-located multi-instrument/multi-platform satellite sensor data spanning several decades to support climate-related applications.
News - Operational News
14 Mar 2024Transition from FTP to FTPS for SMOS, Aeolus and Campaign data dissemination systems
As of 15 April 2024 access to the SMOS, Aeolus and Campaign data will be changed from simple FTP to FTPS.
News - Operational News
13 Mar 2024SMOS data distribution resumed
SMOS data distribution to end users was resumed on 12 March 2024 after confirmation of the adequate quality of the current data.
News - Infographics
12 Mar 2024Showcasing 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 - Data Release news
8 Mar 2024FDR4ALT - ESA unveils new cutting-edge ERS/Envisat Altimeter and Microwave Radiometer Datasets
The European Space Agency (ESA) has developed a comprehensive suite of innovative Earth system data records as part of the Fundamental Data Records for Altimetry project - FDR4ALT.
News - Operational News
28 Feb 2024SMOS data outage since 22 February 2024
SMOS went into safe mode on 22 February 2024 at 05:10 UTC for reasons that are still under investigation.
News - General News
27 Feb 2024Go-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 - Maintenance News
21 Feb 2024CryoSat 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
21 Feb 2024CryoSat 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 - Data Release news
19 Feb 2024New reanalysis dataset impacts SMOS Level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness
On 24 January 2024 the JRA55 reanalysis dataset was terminated and updated with the Japanese Reanalysis for Three Quarters of a Century.
News - Operational News
15 Feb 2024Announcement 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
7 Feb 2024Trailblazing 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
30 Jan 2024Space 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 - Events and Proceedings
17 Jan 2024Highlighting the value of SMOS data in space weather applications
Data from ESA’s SMOS mission are driving many space weather applications, ranging from air navigation, characterisation of solar flares, space weather modelling and ionospheric electron content mapping.
News - Operational News
16 Jan 2024Delay in the Availability of CryoSat Products - Issue Resolved
The CryoSat operational team have successfully resolved a technical issue at the CryoSat Payload Data Ground Segment.
News - Operational News
12 Jan 2024Delay in the availability of CryoSat Products
A technical issue occurred at the CryoSat Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS).
News - General News
10 Jan 2024Ensuring soil moisture data quality with reference measurements
ESA is taking steps to verify the accuracy of soil moisture estimation with the Fiducial Reference Measurements for Soil Moisture (FRM4SM) project and a new version of the Quality Assurance for Soil Moisture (QA4SM) service.