With the launch of Sentinel-3B, the first set of Sentinels for Copernicus is now in orbit delivering an almost mind-boggling amount of data. While this wealth of information advances environmental monitoring, it also opens up huge business opportunities. To help bring these data to market, ESA and SAP have joined forces to create the World Space Alliance.

Register now for the RUS Oil spill mapping with Sentinel-1 webinar taking place on Tuesday 15 May 2018 from 14.30 to 16:00 CEST. 

The Oil spill mapping with Sentinel-1 webinar will illustrate:

• how to access the RUS Service
• how to download, process, analyse and visualise the free data acquired by the Copernicus satellites
• the methodology to map an area affected by oil spill pollution, using ESA SNAP Sentinel-1 Toolbox.

We would like to remind the users that the application submission deadline for EO Summer School is on 01 May.

Please apply through the course website.

The second Sentinel-3 satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-3B, was launched on 25 April, joining its identical twin Sentinel-3A in orbit. This pairing of satellites increases coverage and data delivery for the European Union's Copernicus environment programme.

Recent changes for accessing ESA's Third Party Missions are bringing new benefits to users of Earth observation data worldwide.

Due to a scheduled maintenance, access to the On-The-Fly (OTF) Online Dissemination System (OADS) for the ERS and Envisat (A)SAR data will be unavailable during the following time frame:

• Thursday, 26 April 2018 from 8:30 to 14:30 CEST

The launch of Sentinel-3B will complete the Sentinel-3 constellation and represents the culmination of months of training to fly Europe's latest Copernicus satellite.

ESA through its Earthnet Third Party Mission (TPM) programme is launching an ad-hoc call for  R&D applications with high resolution Digital Surface Model (DSM) products based on CartoSat-1 data.

The call for proposals is now open and will close on 25 May 2018.

The next Sentinel satellite for Europe's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme is poised for liftoff from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.

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