A planned system database maintenance at ESA-ESRIN will impact the availability of the following Earth Observation (EO) website applications and services on three dates in the coming weeks.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa seeks to appoint a post-doctoral researcher to join a dynamic and expanding group of space physics researchers. Amongst other sources, the post-holder will be using Swarm mission data to aid in studies of the Earth's magnetic field.

We are pleased to announce a new release of non-gravitational acceleration and thermosphere neutral density data, which was derived from the measurements of the GPS receiver.

We inform the Swarm users that due to an anomaly that occurred on the VFM (Vector Field Magnetometer) on board Swarm Bravo, i.e., VFM generation time of science packet frozen from 11/09/2017 03:54 UTC to 13/09/2017 12:24 UTC, the Swarm Level 0 data for this time window was not generated.

We are pleased to announce that the registration for the first massive open online course on 'Radar Remote Sensing' is now open. 'Echoes in Space' is commencing on 09 Oct 2017. This course comprises of five lessons and allows self-paced learning.

With reference to the news published on 08 July 2016 we inform the Swarm users that the ASM-VFM Residual dataset produced for the investigations of the scalar residuals between the readings of the scalar magnetometer (ASM) and the vector magnetometer (VFM) has been extended until 31 August 2017 for all Swarm spacecraft.

We are pleased to inform the Swarm users that the 4-days gap present in the Swarm Alpha MAGx_LR_1B data almost at the beginning of the mission, i.e., from the 14 to 17 December 2013, has been recovered.

We are pleased to inform the Swarm users that an improved version of the MAGx_LR_1B products (Product Baseline and File Counter 0502) is now available in the "Advanced" folder of the ESA FTP server. This dataset covers the time window from the beginning of the mission to end August 2017 for all Swarm spacecraft.

On Friday 08 September 2017, from 12:00 to 15:00 (CET), ESA will perform a major upgrade of TellUS, the ESA Earth Online service management platform.

After the upgrade a new Customer Service Portal will be available to all user categories.

Following the publication of some intermediary data samples, CryoSat scientific users are informed that ESA is progressing towards the operational release of the new Ocean Products in NetCDF format.