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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
7 Dec 2020ALOS PRISM collection now open
A Japanese Earth-imaging satellite from JAXA, the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS-1) was part of ESA's Third Party Missions Programme, in which ESA has an agreement with JAXA to distribute its data products.
News - Infographics
16 Dec 2021An overview of the very high-resolution Pleaides satellites
Find out about the achievements of the Pléiades programme in this infographic.
News - Success Stories
16 Dec 2022Atmosphere-studying Odin mission enjoys ongoing success
More than two decades after it began operations, the Odin remote sensing satellite is continuing to make strong contributions to high-impact atmospheric science.
News - Success Stories
5 Dec 2018Copernicus Sentinel-5P ozone boosts daily forecasts
Measurements of atmospheric ozone from Sentinel-5P are now being used in daily forecasts of air quality.
News - Data Release news
19 Dec 2018COSMO-SkyMed ESA archive online dataset available
ESA is pleased to announce the on-line availability of a new dataset: COSMO-SkyMed data for ESA Category-1 users.
News - General News
16 Dec 2019COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation ready for take-off
The first COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG) satellite is ready to join the other four COSMO-SkyMed (CSK) satellites already in orbit
News - Operational News
17 Dec 2021CryoSat anomaly
Due to an on-going problem at platform level the Near Real Time (NRT) service for CryoSat data is suspended.
News - Data Release news
16 Dec 2019CryoSat Ocean Baseline C reprocessing complete
We are pleased to announce that the complete data set of the COP Ocean Baseline C reprocessing has been now published and is available on the CryoSat Science Server. The previous Baseline B dataset has been moved to a dedicated subdirectory and it shall remain available until a new baseline will be brought into operations.
News - Operational News
3 Dec 2020CryoSat Science Server parallel FTP sessions reminder
CryoSat Science Server users are reminded that, by policy, they cannot have more than 10 parallel FTP sessions opened at one time for download.
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 - Events and Proceedings
14 Dec 2022ESA invites scientists to submit abstracts for EGU 2023
ESA is calling for researchers to submit abstracts for sessions at the next General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU 2023).
News - General News
18 Dec 2020ESA’s EO Sign In transfer to operations completed
The replacement of EO-SSO by the new EO Sign In interface has been successfully performed according to the announced schedule. Users can now access the EO data distributed by ESA and related services with their new account.
News - General News
3 Dec 2020ESA’s new Earth Observation registration interface goes live next week
The replacement of EO-SSO by the new EO Sign In interface will be performed progressively between 9 and 15 December 2020.
News - Thematic area articles
9 Dec 2022Global understanding of Earth's land surfaces greatly boosted by satellite data
ESA perform land surface monitoring with a range of instruments onboard satellites acquiring optical and radar data. Collections of data from these missions are freely available for research purposes.
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 - General News
5 Dec 2022How to request level zero radar data from ERS and Envisat
To apply to use level zero (A)SAR radar data from ESA’s European Remote Sensing satellites (ERS-1 and ERS-2) and its Envisat mission for research purposes, you should prepare and submit an online form – called a Data Service Request – to put forward your proposed project to ESA for evaluation.
News - Infographics
7 Dec 2021ICEYE – A persistent monitoring SAR constellation
Learn more about the ICEYE mission, a constellation of SAR satellites and part of ESA's Third Party Missions programme, in our latest infographic.
News - Success Stories
20 Dec 2021ICEYE, 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 - Data Release news
18 Dec 2018Image 2007 European coverage available
The "Image 2007" European Coverage collection is now available to users.
News - Data Release news
20 Dec 2022Improved Aeolus wind data now available
ESA’s Aeolus mission continues to advance weather forecasting with further data improvements, thanks to a third reprocessing campaign.