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Commissioning and Ramp-up Phase

Sentinel-5 Precursor Commissioning and Ramp-up Phase milestones:

Date Events, Milestones and Activities
13 October 2017 Launch of Sentinel-5P from Plesetsk in Russia
 
15 October 2017 Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) finalised in record time!

The Sentinel-5P LEOP Team at ESOC:
16 October 2017 Start of Commissioning Phase. The radiator cooler door is closed and no light enters TROPOMI. Start of decontamination phase.
18 October 2017 Switch on of the payload Instrument Control Unit
20 October 2017 Science test data were down-linked over Svalbard and successfully acquired by the Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS).

Instrument testing results showing all green!
07 November 2017 The TROPOMI radiator cooler door was successfully opened and light enters from now on the TROPOMI Instrument. End of decontamination phase and start of TROPOMI cool down.

Sentinel-5P reaches its loose formation flying position with the S-NPP (Suomi - National Polar Partnership) satellite (flying about 5 minutes behind).
08 November 2017 TROPOMI SWIR detectors reach operational temperature (140 K).
13 November 2017 TROPOMI UVN detectors reach operational temperature (208 K).
15 November 2017 First solar irradiance measurements performed.
21 December 2017 Release of first TROPOMI Level 1 and Level 2 sample data products to expert users via ftp server.
5/6 February 2018 Expert users meeting at ESTEC - first feedback from the Sentinel-5 Precursor Validation Team (S5PVT)
15 March 2018 Release of TROPOMI Level 1 and Level 2 sample data products to expert users via the Sentinel-5 Precursor Expert Users Data Hub.
19 April 2018 The Level 1B processor (V1.0) developed by KNMI (with support by SRON) has been activated in the PDGS.
24 April 2018

The In Orbit Commissioning Review (IOCR) took place at ESRIN, marking the end of the Sentinel-5 Precursor Commissioning Phase.

orbit commissioning review
25 April 2018 Start of the Sentinel-5 Precursor ramp-up phase with a planned duration of 8 months
30 April 2018 The TROPOMI instrument started measuring in nominal operations baseline with a 360 orbit repeat cycle.
09 May 2018 The Level 2 processors (V1.0) developed by KNMI (supported by SRON), and DLR (supported by BIRA/IASB and RAL) have been activated in the PDGS.
25-26 June 2018 The "First Sentinel-5 Precursor Products Release Workshop" took place at ESRIN where Calibration/Validation (Cal/Val) results were presented for: Level 1B radiance/irradiance (Offline–OFFL production), Ozone (Near Real Time–NRT production), Carbon Monoxide (OFFL production), Nitrogen Dioxide (NRT & Offline production), Aerosol Index and Clouds information (NRT & Offline production).
10 July 2018

First public release of Sentinel-5 Precursor products (Level 1B, Total Ozone, Carbon Monoxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Cloud & Aerosol information) at the Open Access Hub Web portal on the Sentinel-5 Precursor Pre-Operations Data Hub.

Nitrogen Dioxide from Sentinel-5P
Nitrogen Dioxide from Sentinel-5P  Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by KNMI
17 October 2018

Second public release of Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor products (Sulphur Dioxide (NRT), Formaldehyde (NRT), Total Ozone (Offline)).

Nitrogen Dioxide from Sentinel-5P
Formaldehyde measurements gathered by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission between January and August 2018.  Credit: Contains modified Copernicus data (2018), processed by BIRA–IASB/DLR
05 December 2018

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), which is implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) on behalf of the European Union, is now including near-realtime Sentinel-5P ozone data in their daily analysis and forecast system.

Measurements of atmospheric ozone from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite.

Copyright: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by DLR/BIRA
01 March 2019

Third public release of Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor products (Methane (Offline), Tropospheric Ozone (Offline)).

Nitrogen Dioxide from Sentinel-5P

Atmospheric methane mapped by the Copernicus Sentinel-5P mission over wetlands in Nigeria between November 2018 and February 2019.

Copyright: contains modified Copernicus data (2018–19), processed by SRON
05 March 2019 Successful Sentinel-5 Precursor Routine Operations Readiness Review Meeting at ESRIN. End of ramp-up phase and start of routine operations phase.

 

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