On 23 May 2018, a new Processing Baseline (02.08) will be deployed for Sentinel-2 L2A products. The first acquisitions featuring baseline 02.08 will be dated with 2018-05-23T09:50:00 and 2018-05-23T09:00:00 UTC sensing time for Sentinel2-A and Sentinel2-B, respectively.

As previously announced, a campaign has been planned for the Sentinel Open Data Access Hub and Copernicus Service Data Hub to republish the Sentinel-2A Level-1C products, from their historical format into the 'Complete Single Tile' format introduced in December 2016.

Data from the Sentinel-1 and -5P satellites of the European Union's Copernicus programme are being used to better understand the mechanisms behind volcanic eruptions and landslides in Central Africa.

We are pleased to publish the third Sentinel Data Access Annual Report. This 2017 report takes up from where the 2016 report left off, and analyses the uptake of Copernicus Sentinel data and the performance of the Sentinel Data Access System during the period 01 December 2016 to 30 November 2017.

A routine decontamination activity of the Sentinel-2B MSI is planned to take place over a continuous period of 24-hours between 26 and 27 May, from 18:00 to 18:00 UTC (corresponding to the period between absolute orbits 6373 to 6387). During this temporal window, no MSI acquisition will take place.

Active for decades, Kīlauea volcano - on Hawaii's Big Island - erupted on 4 May. The island also experienced a magnitude 6.9 earthquake on the same day, forcing thousands to leave their homes.

We would like to inform the users that the Sentinel-1B satellite was unavailable on 13 May 2018 from 11:29 to 13:08 UTC, due to the need to reset the Payload Data Handling and Transmission (PDHT) system.

Launched on 25 April 2018, the Sentinel-3B satellite has already delivered impressive first images from its ocean and land colour instrument and from its radiometer. It has now also delivered data from its altimeter – which means that all of the instruments are working well.

Less than two weeks after it was launched, the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite has delivered its first images of Earth. Exceeding expectations, this first set of images include the sunset over Antarctica, sea ice in the Arctic and a view of northern Europe.

The Sentinel-1 auxiliary files are now available to users on aux.sentinel1.eo.esa.int. The access is open to all users available both via FTP and HTTP (use of FTP is recommended).