Due to an issue at ground segment level on 14 July 2020, OLC, SLSTR and SRAL Near Real Time Copernicus Sentinel-3A data starting from sensing time 08:37:00 until 10:37:00 UTC (orbit 22953) on 14 July have been missed.

A maintenance activity on the core infrastructure hosting the data hub services, involving the update of the virtualization infrastructure, is planned on 15 July 2020 from 07:00 to 16:00 UTC.

With reference to the news on 13 July, the Copernicus Sentinel-1 data flow has been re-established.

To celebrate the recent five year anniversary of Copernicus Sentinel-2 - with the launch of Sentinel-2A on 23 June 2015 - we produced a special infographic on the mission. The infographic highlights important facts and achievements of the mission after its first five years of operations.

An update of the Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P) operation system is planned in the next weeks, which will impact the following products:

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The restoration of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 offline products from the long term archives has been affected by an anomaly since 13:00 UTC, 8 July 2020.

No new Copernicus Sentinel-1 products have been published since 11 July at approximately 07:00 due to an anomaly on the Sentinel-1 ground segment.

The complexity of the Earth system requires ingenious modelling strategies to reduce the related expense of simulations - usually at the cost of accuracy. Eradiate, a new, highly accurate and flexible radiative transfer model in the optical domain, will help generate reference data for instrument calibration.