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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 - Success Stories
24 Nov 2022Drones join the campaign to validate Aeolus data
In June and September 2022, the Askos component of the Joint Aeolus Tropical Atlantic Campaign (JATAC), organised by ESA and its international partners, was expanded with new ground-based, drone and radiosonde measurements. The main objective of this campaign was to calibrate and validate Aeolus satellite observations.
News - Thematic area articles
27 Apr 2022Space data help to unravel the complexities of Earth’s atmosphere
As the impacts of the climate crisis intensify, scientists are using ESA’s Earth observation archives to investigate atmospheric processes and their influences on the planet’s changing environment.
News - Events and Proceedings
14 Apr 2022Exploring the prevailing achievements and future directions of Aeolus
A tight-knit community of European remote sensing experts converged on the Italian island of Sicily last month to discuss how the strong success of ESA’s Aeolus mission is shaping scientists’ understanding of the winds that sweep across the planet.
News - General News
23 Mar 2022Launch of Aeolus VRE
The Aeolus Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is a cloud service, which provides users with a web-based development environment in the form of a JupyterLab workspace.
News - Success Stories
1 Mar 2022How Envisat helped to shape global understanding of Earth’s systems
Twenty years have passed since a ground-breaking European spacecraft designed to deliver unprecedented insight into the planet’s changing environment was lofted into orbit.
News - Success Stories
24 Jan 2022Dust aerosol campaign validates Aeolus data
Prepared, implemented and executed by a consortium of French universities and research institutions, under the umbrella of the French Space Agency (CNES) and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Clouds-Atmospheric Dynamics–Dust Interactions in West Africa (CADDIWA) campaign took place on Sal Island in Cape Verde, from 6 to 25 September 2021.
News - Spotlight on EO community
20 Jan 2022Meet ESA's Swarm Mission Manager
Anja Strømme, ESA's Swarm Mission Manager, describes in detail the wonders of the Swarm mission.
News - Data Release news
16 July 2021New Swarm Ion Temperature Estimation (SITE) data product released
A new dataset of Swarm Ion Temperature Estimation (SITE) is now available for the three Swarm spacecraft.
News - Infographics
7 June 2021Swarm - ESA's magnetic field satellite mission
Learn more about ESA's Swarm mission, an Earth Explorer dedicated to studying Earth's magnetic field, in our latest infographic.
News - Success Stories
24 Mar 2021Water mission takes on space weather
Adding to SMOS’ list of talents, new findings show that what was considered noise in the mission’s data can actually be used to monitor solar activity and space weather, which can damage communication and navigation systems.
News - Success Stories
30 Oct 2020CryoSat-2 Data Used to Measure Ionospheric Currents
A new study has shown that navigation magnetometer data from the CryoSat-2 and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) satellites can be used to diagnose weak low-/mid-latitude ionospheric currents.
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 - Operational News
1 July 2019New version of the Swarm Weekly Quality Report
Starting from the week 8-14 April, a new version of the Swarm Quality Report will be introduced.
News - Operational News
10 June 2019Swarm Charlie: EFI data gap from 2 to 4 June 2019
Due to an issue with the EFI on-board Swarm Charlie, no Langmuir Probe data is available for 2 to 4 June 2019.
News - Events and Proceedings
27 May 2019Eighth Swarm Data Quality Workshop report published in EOS
A summary of the 2018 Swarm Data Quality Workshop has been published in the Earth and Space Science (EOS) journal.
News - Operational News
21 May 2019Swarm Alpha: L1B ASM data gap from 13 to 20 May 2019
From 13 to 20 May 2019, the ASM (Absolute Scalar Magnetometer) instrument on board Swarm Alpha was commanded in burst mode.
News - Operational News
17 May 2019Swarm Alpha: EFI data gap on 12 May 2019
An EFI/TII gain calibration map has been executed on 12 May 2019 onboard Swarm Alpha.
News - General News
7 May 2019Significant improvements on Swarm Thermal Ion Imagers data
Constant improvement in the strategies to operate the two Thermal Ion Imager sensors on-board each Swarm spacecraft allow increase in data coverage and quality.
News - Operational News
15 Mar 2019Swarm Alpha and Charlie: STR instruments set at 2 Hz rate from December 2018
The attitude information of the Swarm Star Tracker (STR) instruments are set at 2 Hz rate from December 2018, instead of the previous 1 Hz.