Due to an issue that occurred at Ground Segment level, Copernicus Sentinel-3 OLC, SLSTR and SRAL Near Real Time data between 8 and 10 August is missing.

We inform our Sentinel Online readers that we are taking a break from our publications for the summer. We will resume our Sentinel Success Stories regularly, starting in September.

Further to the recent news, all Copernicus Sentinel-5P NRTI level 2 data from 27 July on orbits 14441 - 14449 are also of potentially degraded quality due to unreliable irradiance input - in particular L2_CLOUD, L2___O3, L2___SO2 and L2__HCHO.

Due to a ground segment anomaly the near real time processing (NRTI) and dissemination of Copernicus Sentinel-5P data from orbits 14432 (26 July 2020 15:13:16) to 14441 (27 July 2020 07:26:26) has not been performed.

With reference to the news of 17 July, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 Long Term Archive service was resumed as of the evening on 24 July.

An infrastructure maintenance will be performed on the International Access Hub on 4 August  from 08:00 to 10:00 UTC.

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 POD configuration will evolve by end of July 2020 to improve the orbital accuracy of Sentinel-1 PRE, NRT and NTC products by correcting the GPS Antenna Reference Point (ARP) location. The impact on the POD was identified by the CPOD Quality Working Group (QWG), by the presence of non-negligible empirical forces and significant differences between Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B, but a thorough investigation was necessary to identify the root cause of it. The new ARP values are documented in the Sentinel-1 Properties for GPS POD document.

The recent development of MasTer tool – an InSAR automated Mass processing toolbox for multidimensional time series, is making a difference in the systematic and automatic use of Copernicus Sentinel-1 data for ground deformation monitoring.

As a consequence of a ground segment contingency, the restoration of Copernicus Sentinel-2 long term archived products is temporarily suspended as of yesterday evening.

In agreement with the European Commission, a new definition of the geographical coverage of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 Altimetry Level-2 products has been recently defined.