An orbit collision avoidance manoeuvre was performed on Swarm Bravo on 16 April 2018 at 16:10 UTC for a duration of 96s equivalent to a Delta V = 2 cm/s.

The European Space Agency is organising 'EO4Alps' - The Alps from Space Workshop, which will take place from 27 to 29 June 2018 at the Villa Blanka Conference Center, in Innsbruck, Austria.

Users interested in participating still have until the 30 April 2018 to submit an abstract.

Due to an anomaly that occurred on the VFM (Vector Field Magnetometer) on board Swarm Charlie, the VFM science data (at 50 Hz rate) was not received from 13/04/2018 19:18 UTC to 16/04/2018 09:21 UTC.

From 16 April to 30 June 2018, public or private organisations involved in developing innovative applications based on Earth Observations (EO) and located in European GEO member countries are invited to come forward with voluntary Expressions of Intent for networking along the value chain.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising a Φ-week event at ESRIN in Frascati, Italy from 22 to 26 October 2018. The event will focus on EO Open Science and FutureEO - to review the latest developments in Open Science trends and kick-start innovative activities of the recently created Φ-department. This new department is looking at FutureEO, and its associated Φ-lab aims to identify, support and scale bold EO ideas.

Please note that the abstract submission deadline has been extended to 01 May 2018, providing you with additional time to submit your paper.

The first models of the fourth release of Swarm magnetic field models are now available to users. The new models are based on improved Swarm magnetometer data (MAGx_LR_1B data products, baseline 05, version 03), covering the period from launch to the end of 2017, i.e. one additional year in comparison to the previous release.

The European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an event for Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing, dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists to exploit data from EO missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinels) for science and applications development.

Application submission is open until the deadline of 08 June 2018.

Due to a scheduled maintenance, access to the OADS-OTF online dissemination systems for ALOS PALSAR data and the Third Party Missions (TPM) datasets will be unavailable on 04 and 05 April 2018.

Due to a software maintenance scheduled on Wednesday 28 March 2018, from 09:30 to 12:30 CEST, the data collections on the ESA SMOS online dissemination tool may not be updated with new products during the indicated time frame.

Users interested in participating in ESA's Φ-week event on 22-26 October 2018 are kindly reminded to submit an abstract and/or request for a booth within the deadline of 01 Apr 2018.