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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 - Infographics
5 Apr 2022What is Aeolus VRE?
Learn more about the the Aeolus Virtual Research Environment (VRE), the latest extension to the VirES for Aeolus service, in this infographic.
News - Data Release news
18 Apr 2019Version 2.0 of GOCE thermosphere reprocessed data released
Version 2.0 of the GOCE thermosphere dataset is now available on the GOCE Virtual Archive.
News - General News
8 Apr 2020Updated Terms and conditions for the use of ESA EO Missions and Third Party Missions data
Through the Earth Online website, ESA makes available to the EO user community a huge amount of data from its own heritage and current missions (Earth Explorers) as well as from Third Party Missions through agreements with external data providers. The complete list of available collections is available in the Data section.
News - General News
11 Apr 2022Updated interface to submit EO data access requests now open
The new interface to submit data access requests for ESA and Third Party Missions has been updated to manage project proposals submitted for access to the 29 relevant EO data collections.
News - Data Release news
30 Apr 2020Updated CryoSat magnetometer data now available
An improved version of the CryoSat magnetic field data (version 0103) is now available.
News - General News
24 Apr 2020Swarm thermo-optical properties of the satellites document updated
The Swarm document on the thermo-optical properties of the satellites provides tables and technical drawings for aerodynamic and radiation pressure modelling.
News - Operational News
7 Apr 2022Swarm EFI LP partial data gap between 29 March and 3 April 2022
An update of the EFI-TII Gain Correction Map was executed on the three Swarm spacecraft between 29 March and 3 April 2022. Because of this, gaps in EFI-LP data are observed.
News - Operational News
29 Apr 2022Swarm Alpha and Charlie orbit raise campaign starting on 3 May 2022 - Potential impact on data quality
After more than eight years of operations, the Swarm constellation is continuing to provide multi-point measurements of the Earth’s magnetic field and ionospheric parameters with unprecedented accuracy.
News - General News
29 Apr 2020Special PROBA-V microsite
See some of the accomplishments of the PROBA-V mission in a special microsite developed by VITO.
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 - Data Release news
15 Apr 2020Recovery of past Swarm L1B data gaps
Swarm L1B data gaps registered in the past have been recovered by using the last L1B operational processor.
News - General News
27 Apr 2020Rebirth for Earth Online
On 27 April, the old Earth Online website retired, to make space for this brand new portal-still intending to serve Earth Observation scientists and experts worldwide.
News - General News
29 Apr 2021Quality Reports Advanced Search Portal takes off
The Quality Reports Advanced Search (QRAS) Portal is a system that provides a set of functionalities for searching, filtering, visualising and downloading of Earth Observation reports data, from multiple missions.
News - Operational News
24 Apr 2020Quality of CryoSat Near Real Time production restored
The problem in the delivery of CryoSat auxiliary data has been resolved.
News - Infographics
21 Apr 2020PROBA-V - ESA's vegetation monitoring mission
ESA's vegetation-monitoring mission - Proba-V - will end operations in June 2020 after seven years.
News - Infographics
20 Apr 2022PlanetScope and SkySat - The high-resolution nanosatellite constellation
Find out more about the PlanetScope and SkySat missions in our new infographic.
News - General News
6 Apr 2021Open Call for Ideas for New Data Products, Tools and Services for Swarm
This announcement by the Swarm Data, Innovation and Science Cluster (Swarm DISC) is to solicit ideas for “New data products, tools, and services” enhancing the scientific outcome of ESA's satellite constellation trio Swarm.
News - Data Release news
17 Apr 2020New SMOS sea surface wind speed products now available
The SMOS Wind Data Service provides, in near real time (NRT), surface wind speed over the ocean derived from the brightness temperature measurements of SMOS.
News - Data Release news
14 Apr 2021New release of GOCE Precise Science Orbit Products
A new product baseline (version _0201) of the GOCE Level 2 Precise Science Orbit products (SST_PSO_2) derived from the GOCE GPS receiver has been generated and released to users.
News - Success Stories
1 Apr 2020New life for Landsat historical data
45 years of data, more than 1.8 million images, these are the numbers of an adventure started 48 years ago with the launch of the first Landsat satellite.