ESA has started a process to improve the Earth Observation data distribution services, aiming at facilitating access to data and information for the end users, initially by shortening the access path and reviewing authentication and authorisation processes.

Due to an ongoing OTF activity, temporary synch problems may arise among systems providing the service, particularly affecting data downloads.

In the context of the EO Science for Society Programme Element, the European Space Agency is organising ATMOS 2018, a conference on the topical theme Atmosphere aimed at exploiting data from ESA and EO Missions for science and application development.

If you are interested in submitting a paper for the conference, please note that the deadline is 15 August 2018.

ESA is organising the second conference on Mapping Urban Areas from Space (MUAS 2018), which will be held at ESA-ESRIN (Frascati, Italy) from 30 to 31 October 2018.

Interested participants should note that the abstract submission deadline has been extended until 22 June 2018.

Due to an anomaly that occurred on the VFM (Vector Field Magnetometer) on board Swarm Alpha, the VFM science data (at 50 Hz rate) was not received from 02 June 2018 at 09:52 UTC to 03 June 2018 at 09:14:34 UTC.

GOSAT data distribution / dissemination has been resumed for both the TANSO-FTS and CAI data products, following the resolution of the problem reported last week.

On 30 May 2018 a technical issue caused a telemetry data gap in S/C C from 21:14:47 to 23:12:23 UTC.

A new version of the CryoSat User Tool (CUT version 4.0.1) has been released. Users can download the tool now and find further information on the CryoSat User Tool web page.

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming European Space Agency (ESA) Living Planet Symposium 2019 (LPS19), following the latest successful LPS event in 2016 which was attended by 3000 participants.

The LPS19 Symposium is organised with the support of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and will be held in Milan, Italy, from 13 to 17 May 2019.

• The Call for Sessions for the Living Planet Symposium 2019 is open until the deadline of 17 June 2018.
• Abstract submission will open after the summer season on 10 September until the deadline of 11 November 2018. 
• To submit a contribution or to look for more information, please visit the Symposium website.

With the reference to the news published on 25 May 2018, we would like to inform the users that after  performing a power cycle on the Swarm Charlie CHU3 on 25 May 2018 at 12:44 UTC, the anomalous variation in the IBAs is no more present.