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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 - Operational News
SMOS data distribution resumed
SMOS data distribution to end users was resumed on 12 March 2024 after confirmation of the adequate quality of the current
News - General News
Go-to guide to Third Party Mission data offering
Data Access Guide has been published, providing technical details and information on available data collections for all current
News - Success Stories
Satellite data predicts lower wheat crop yield
Title: Current drought situation in Ebro basin Description: The SMOS soil-moisture-based drought monitor is updated monthly
News - Thematic area articles
How satellite data help to shape society
Title: Current drought situation in Ebro basin Description: The SMOS soil-moisture-based drought monitor is updated monthly
News - General News
ESA's excellent Earth Explorer missions extended to 2025
Acting like the spinning conductor in a bicycle dynamo, it generates electrical currents and thus the continuously changing
News - Events and Proceedings
Φ-Week Triumphs
Opening Session Title: Φ-Week's Opening Session Description: During the fourth edition of ESA’s Φ -Week, Josef Aschbacher, current
News - Events and Proceedings
SMOS data advances space weather and ionospheric research
Title: Tracking the solar activity cycle using SMOS data Description: This graph shows the “rise” of our current solar activity
News - Infographics
What are the next Earth Explorers?
Four more missions are currently planned - EarthCARE, Biomass, FLEX, and FORUM - which will further our understanding of
News - Data Release news
New Landsat-8 Collection-2 Level 1 and Level 2 data now available
The Online Dissemination service is still being populated, with the current availability of Collection-2 data as follows:
News - Operational News
SMOS data outage since 22 February 2024
spacecraft has been back in nominal mode since 25 February and on 27 February, the MIRAS instrument was switched on and is currently
News - Data Release news
SMOS sea ice thickness reprocessed data now available
baseline v724 and with the latest level 3 and 4 sea ice thickness processors baseline v3.3 and v204 respectively, which are currently
News - Infographics
Showcasing the NovaSAR-1 radar satellite
NovaSAR-1 is currently under assessment to join ESA's Third Party Missions programme.
News - Data Release news
New reprocessing of datasets celebrates 30 years of ERS
For each surface, the experts will use our current knowledge acquired over 30 years of experience, to improve the ERS altimetric
News - Success Stories
COP26 fuels interest in satellite data
operational and non-operational ESA missions provide long-term Earth observational records, giving essential context to current
News - Announcement of Opportunity updates
ESA encourages S-band applications with NovaSAR-1 Announcement of Opportunity
There are currently over 60 instruments providing data from more than 50 TPMs and the data can be accessed for free for research
News - Data Release news
New Landsat-8 Collection-2 Level 1 and Level 2 data available from January
The old Landsat-8 portal, which currently hosts data for the mission, will be retained until the Landsat Dissemination Service
News - Data Release news
ESA's (A)SAR dissemination service enhanced with Envisat ASAR MR L1 data
Note that the ESA EO Data Gateway service currently providing access to the Envisat ASAR MR Level 1 data is being phased
News - Events and Proceedings
Special event for 10th anniversary of SMOS
of measurements and generation of FCDRs and TCDRs SMOS as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Synergies with current
News - General News
GEOSAT collaborates with ESA to boost understanding of the planet
Several GEOSAT datasets – including recently released collections covering Spain and Portugal – are currently being disseminated
News - Success Stories
Pléiades unlocks information about rock glaciers in central Himalaya
says lead researcher, Tobias Bolch, at the School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, UK, currently