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Last look at Sentinel-2A 24 February 2015 Before Sentinel-2A is packed up and shipped to French Guiana for its launch targeted on 12 June, media...

Intermittent unavailability of latest Sentinel-1 products on the Scientific Data Hub 13 February 2015 Due to the heavy demand for downloads and the...

Sentinel-2 practices laser spin 11 February 2015 As Sentinel-2A nears the end of testing before being shipped to its launch site, one of the last jobs has...

Sentinel-1 monitors floods in Malawi 29 January 2015 Sentinel-1 has contributed to aid disaster response efforts in Malawi, following devastating floods...

Sentinel-1 Collaborative Data Hub open 26 January 2015 ESA is pleased to announce that as of 26 January the Collaborative Data Hub is open for access by...

Satellites catch Austfonna shedding ice 23 January 2015 Rapid ice loss in a remote Arctic ice cap has been detected by the Sentinel-1A and CryoSat...

Sentinel-1A satellite unavailability - 20 January 2015 19 January 2015 Due to onboard software maintenance, Sentinel-1A will be unavailable on 20 January...

Satellites guide sailor from treacherous waters 19 December 2014 While sailing south of Africa on an around-the-world voyage, Matteo Miceli was suddenly...

Fogo volcano eruption: preliminary results from TopSAR Interferometry 11 December 2014 On 23 November 2014, an eruption started on Fogo Volcano (Cape...

Sentinel session at EGU 2015 (GI2.9): Reminder to authors 11 December 2014 During the forthcoming EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, which will take...

Sentinel-1 mosaic of Romania 05 December 2014 This image of Romania - with the political borders in red - is a mosaic of 15 scans by Sentinel-1A's radar...

Sentinel-3 fully formed 04 December 2014 For more than 18 months, engineers have been carefully piecing together the many components that make up ESA's...

Fogo volcano on Sentinel's radar 02 December 2014 Radar images from the Sentinel-1A satellite are helping to monitor ground movements of the recently...

Sentinel session at EGU 2015 (GI2.9): Call for contributions 01 December 2014 During the forthcoming EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, which will...

Sentinel-1 Scientific Data Hub: planned maintenance downtime from 05 - 08 December 2014 01 December 2014 Users are informed of the planned maintenance for...

Laser link offers high-speed delivery 28 November 2014 Marking a first in space, Sentinel-1A and Alphasat have linked up by laser stretching almost 36,000...

SPOT-5 Take 5 announcement of opportunity 26 November 2014 ESA invites proposals for the SPOT-5 Take 5 call, which aims to select potential sites of...

DLR and ESA sign the Collaborative Ground Segment Cooperation for Sentinel data 10 November 2014 With the first Copernicus satellite now operational, ESA...

Envisat ASAR WSM exploitation to map Open Water Bodies 06 November 2014 In this study scientists investigate the properties of metrics derived from the...

Trial separation prepares for final release 30 October 2014 Sentinel-2A is in the middle of an extensive testing programme to make sure this...

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