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An updated version of the Level-1B product notice for Sentinel-3 SLSTR has been released. The new version contains an update to better explain a limitation with Bayesian/probabilistic cloud screening.
Users are informed that a blocking incident occurred on the Open Access and Copernicus Services Data Hubs today with a downtime of approximately 44 minutes from 08:18 to 09:02 UTC.
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.
Users are informed that the incident on the Data Hub infrastructure which occurred earlier today at 9:30 UTC was resolved at 14:15 UTC.
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.

Users are informed that a blocking infrastructure incident has occurred at one of the data hub centres on 24 April 2018 at 09:30 UTC.

The next Sentinel satellite for Europe's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme is poised for liftoff from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.
Following the maintenance activities on the Data Hubs on 10 and 11 April 2018, two new activities have been scheduled aimed at improving the data access performance and to properly re-balance the traffic load

Getting a satellite ready to be launched involves a long list of jobs, but with the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite now fuelled, this particular 'to do' list is significantly shorter. And, importantly, all is on track for lift-off on 25 April.

Due to a Sentinel-3A ground segment anomaly on 09 April 2018 at 21:38 UTC, NRT products were not available until this issue was resolved on 10 April 2018 at 08:30 UTC.
Infrastructure maintenance activities are scheduled on the Data Hubs from 13:00 UTC on 10 April to 11:00 UTC on 11 April 2018.

Awarding outstanding ideas and applications that use Earth observation data to tackle challenges faced by business and society, the Copernicus Masters 2018 competition is now open for submissions.

With the Sentinel-3B satellite now at the Plesetsk launch site in Russia and liftoff set for 25 April, engineers are steaming ahead with the task of getting Europe's next Copernicus satellite ready for its journey into orbit.
Due to an anomaly on 17 March 2018, all NRT/NTC/STC Level-1 and Level-2 user products are missing from sensing time 2:49:54 UTC to 14:39:44 UTC (absolute orbits impacted 10834-10835, relative orbits 81-82 of cycle 29). The issue is currently under investigation and further notifications concerning the nature of the anomaly will be released afterwards.
Following the maintenance activities to upgrade the storage facilities on the Data Hubs at the beginning of March, two new activities have been scheduled for improving the data access performance.
Be a part of Europe's Earth observation revolution by applying to join experts at one of two Sentinel-3B launch #SocialSpace activities on 25 April.
The millions of tonnes of plastic ending up in the oceans every year are a global challenge. ESA is responding by looking at the detection of marine plastic litter from space, potentially charting its highest concentrations and understanding the gigantic scale of the problem.

On Monday 19 March 2018, an OLCI S09 calibration activity will be performed: the expected outage including the pre and post calibration configuration is 70 seconds, from 09:04:09 UTC to 09:05:19 UTC.

Due a planned out-of-plane orbit manoeuvre for Sentinel-3 on 14 March 2018, NRT/STC/NTC L1 and L2 user data could be degraded or missing.

On 9 March 2018, Level-1 and Level-2 Sentinel-3 OLCI PDUs, full and reduced resolution, began to be released through the Sentinel-3 Pre-Operational Data Hub. The data is being released incrementally beginning with the oldest data first, and the initial release will cover 26 April 2016 to 29 November 2017. The release of data will be performed gradually in order to avoid slowing down the nominal production publication.

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