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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 - General News
2 Apr 2024New Swarm Field Aligned Current web tool available
We are pleased to announce that a new Field Aligned Currents (FAC) web tool is available
News - Operational News
6 June 2022Update on Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data issue
published on 23 November 2021 and on 16 December 2021, we want to update Swarm users about the issue affecting Field-Aligned Current
News - Operational News
12 May 2022Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data unavailable from 4 May 2022
the recent orbit raise manoeuvres which changed the orbital configuration of Swarm Alpha and Charlie, no Field-Aligned Current
News - Operational News
16 Dec 2021Update on Swarm Field-Aligned Current Dual (FAC_AC) data missing from 7 November 2021
As a follow-up of the news published on 23 November 2021, we want to update Swarm users about the missing Field-Aligned Current
News - Operational News
13 Mar 2024SMOS 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 - Success Stories
7 Sept 2022Satellite 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 - Success Stories
26 Mar 2024Ten years of Swarm data help reveal processes in Earth’s core
Title: Earth’s shielding magnetic field Description: The magnetic field and electric currents in and around Earth generate
News - General News
21 Mar 2023ESA'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
2 Dec 2022SMOS 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 - Data Release news
2 Mar 2022New Swarm Langmuir probe Ion Drift, density and effective Mass (SLIDEM) dataset released
The measurements make use of Electric Field Instrument faceplate current measurements, and are thus available only when the
News - Operational News
28 Feb 2024SMOS 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
18 Jan 2022SMOS 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 - Thematic area articles
31 Mar 2022Satellite data central to ocean monitoring
microwave monitoring instruments, optical imagers, and infrared radiometers, which can map ocean variables related to ocean currents
News - Data Release news
30 Jan 2023New version of the SMOS-CryoSat level 4 sea ice thickness product is now available
The current version 205 replaces the previous baseline version 204.
News - Events and Proceedings
21 Oct 2019Special 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 - Operational News
29 Apr 2022Swarm Alpha and Charlie orbit raise campaign starting on 3 May 2022 - Potential impact on data quality
According to the current planning, this first orbit raise campaign will be completed on 8 July 2022.
News - Success Stories
7 Mar 2024Magnetic magic: 10 reasons to be excited about Swarm
Electric currents in the magnetosphere and ionosphere induce secondary currents in the ground, themselves producing magnetic
News - Success Stories
30 Aug 2023Synergy of space data helps modernise irrigation systems
A key part of modernising irrigation systems, however, is gaining accurate information on current water management methods
News - General News
16 May 2023Big ambitions as Swarm mission soars on
For example, whilst strong electric currents in the upper atmosphere were already known to vary by season, Swarm detected
News - Success Stories
3 Nov 2022SMOS data improve estimates of rainfall in Africa
Currently, however, only two precipitation products use this information.