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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
Magnetic magic: 10 reasons to be excited about Swarm
In November 2023, Swarm celebrated an impressive ten years in orbit. In that time, ESA’s magnetic mission has honed in on all sorts of mysteries - from tussling magnetic blobs to animal migration.
News - Thematic area articles
Space 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 - Success Stories
New CryoSat data to boost understanding of the oceans
A new CryoSat sea level anomaly product designed to enable ocean science and the development of operational marine applications has been released.
News - Data Release news
Envisat MIPAS data now available on new ESA Dissemination Server
The latest reprocessed Envisat MIPAS Level 1 and Level 2 datasets have now been migrated from simple FTP access to the new Online Dissemination service for ESA Heritage Missions (HM) Atmospheric data.
News - Infographics
Focusing on Envisat MERIS Full Resolution Level-2 data
ESA's Envisat mission continued and expanded upon the legacy of its predecessors, the ERS (European Remote Sensing) satellites. Operating between 2002 and 2012, the satellite's 10 instruments acquired a decade of data for many applications.
News - Data Release news
New CryoSat Ice Baseline-E Reprocessed Data – Available now!
The CryoSat Ice Baseline-E Reprocessing campaign is now complete.
News - Success Stories
TPM data help advance plastic litter detection from space
Several innovative ESA Discovery element projects exploring remote sensing of plastic marine litter lean on commercial satellite data disseminated via the Agency’s Third Party Mission programme.
News - Infographics
An overview of the Pléiades Neo mission
Pléiades Neo is a constellation of two very high-resolution satellites, launched in 2021, which were created to follow on from the Pléiades mission.
News - Announcement of Opportunity updates
Researchers called to explore new applications of SAOCOM data
ESA has invited Earth observation experts to devise and propose innovative applications for data delivered by Argentinian remote sensing constellation SAOCOM.
News - Data Release news
ICEYE ESA archive collection now available to users
ICEYE ESA archive collection is now available worldwide through ESA’s Third Party Missions programme. The ESA archive collections consist of products requested by ESA-supported projects worldwide, and, therefore, the products are scattered and dispersed over the territory in different time windows. The datasets regularly grow as ESA collects new products over the years.
News - Success Stories
SAR synergy data for maritime surveillance
With the aim of safeguarding our oceans, a recent study uses a synergy of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images to improve maritime surveillance.
News - Infographics
The International Charter - Providing satellite data to support disaster response worldwide
Learn about the International Charter Space and Major Disasters in this new infographic.
News - Infographics
PlanetScope and SkySat - The high-resolution nanosatellite constellation
Find out more about the PlanetScope and SkySat missions in our new infographic.
News - Infographics
An overview of the GEOSAT-2 high-resolution mission
The GEOSAT series consists of two very high-resolution satellites, capable of acquiring sub-metric multispectral images. The missions are part of ESA's Third Party Missions programme, and GEOSAT-2 is summarised in our latest infographic.
News - Success Stories
ICEYE, the World’s First SAR New Space Constellation
ICEYE is a revolutionary Finnish company that developed and launched the world’s first under-100 kilogram synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) satellites into orbit.
News - Infographics
An overview of ESA's Third Party Missions programme
ESA’s Third Party Missions programme consists of almost 50 satellite missions, which are owned by organisations around the world. ESA has agreements with these organisations to acquire, process, and distribute data from their missions
News - Success Stories
Charter on major disasters celebrates 20 years of operations
The International Charter Space and Major Disasters is now 20 years old.
News - Data Release news
Spire data now open to users
Following the submission of a project proposal, data from the Spire mission are now available.
News - Data Release news
ICEYE data familiarization phase for the Earthnet TPM programme continues with new ICEYE-X2 data
The ICEYE data familiarization phase freely offers ICEYE imagery over several demonstration sites