Due to predicted outage for Copernicus Sentinel-3B In-Plane Manoeuvre, SLSTR Products degradation is expected for sensing time from 07/03/2023T07:15:27 to 07/03/2023T07:26:00 UTC.
An acquisition issue affecting Sentinel-2A on 1 March 2023 induced the following unrecoverable loss of data:
Datatake S2A-40153-1 and S2A-40153-5 are partially lost
Datatake S2A-40153-2, S2A-40153-3 and S2A-40153-4 are completely lost.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.
A Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre executed on Sentinel-2A on 22 February 2023 induced the following unrecoverable loss of data:
Datatake S2A-40063-1 is partially lost
We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused and for the delay in the communication.
An acquisition issue affecting Sentinel-2A occured on 27 February 2023 and induced the following unrecoverable loss of data:
Datatake S2A-40128-1 is partially lost
We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused
Following the release of Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P) full mission reprocessed datasets of four products on 5 December 2022, ESA announce a second release covering the whole mission 30 April 2018 to 25 July 2022:
Regarding the products already released on 5 December 2022 for the period 30 April 2018 to 31 March 2022 :
Please note that products from the period covering 1st April 2022 to 25 July 2022 will also be made available as part of this release, completing the release of these data sets for the mission.
The data will be gradually published starting from around the 3 March 2023 and the complete datasets will be available by end March 2023. The reprocessing baseline (i.e., processor versions and configurations) is equivalent to the baseline deployed in the operational ground-processing system on July 2022. Therefore, a consistent dataset will be available since the beginning of the operational mission (orbit 2818, 30 April 2018).
It is recommended to use the RPRO products in the period for which also OFFL products are available (i.e., between orbits 24655-24779 for some products, between orbits 24655-24898 for others). This, in order to avoid using products with possible instabilities, because generated during the first days of the operational switch to version 2.4.0 in July 2022.
The reprocessed products can be found on the S5P Pre-Ops Hub and can be identified by the file class ‘RPRO’ in the filenames. The collection identifier is ‘03’, the same used for the operational dataset that is available since mid-July 2022.
Filename example:
S5P_RPROL2CH4___20190403T231952_20190404T010123_07627_03_020400_20221121T232259.nc
It is planned to publish the remaining S5P reprocessed datasets (i.e., SO2, HCHO, O3 Tropospheric column and O3 Profile), during the second quarter of 2023.
Detailed information about every product type is provided within the dedicated Product Readme Files (PRF) available in the S5P Products and Algorithms web page.
Due to predicted outage for Copernicus Sentinel-3A Out-of-Plane Manoeuvre, SLSTR and SRAL products degradation is expected for sensing time from 01/03/2023T08:31:51 to 01/03/2023T09:07:04 UTC.
Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3B SLSTR instrument anomaly and related recovery operations, products unavailability/degradation is expected as follows:
We are pleased to inform that the Copernicus Sentinel-3 Altimetry Land Thematic Products (TP) with Baseline Collection 005 (BC005) are currently under reprocessing to generate improved and tailored level-2 data for both Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-3B. The release of the level-2 TP’s will cover from the beginning of the mission up to date, and the new processing baseline will be then transferred in nominal operations to maintain a uniform processing baseline.
The reprocessing activities is performed by Telespazio (IT) in coordination with the Sentinel-3 Land Altimetry Mission Performance Cluster led by CLS (FR) and it is planned to complete by Q3 2023.
It is recalled that the data availability plan will be routinely updated on a dedicated page, providing details on the periods published, as well as indicators on the proceedings of the reprocessing with the forthcoming periods soon to be published.
Users are invited to start making use of the gradually building long-term time-series of Collection-005 products!
A Belgium-led science team based in Antarctica used Copernicus Sentinel-2 data to plan an expedition that recovered one of the biggest meteorites ever found in Earth’s southernmost continent.
The space rock – which was one of a haul of five meteorites collected – is now undergoing analysis at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences after being transported to Europe.
Calling on all interested users of Sentinel data, who would like to submit their results, turning their experiences into 'success stories'.
If you have a good story to tell, of how any of the Sentinel satellites are producing data that bring benefit to your work and/or to society, please contact the Sentinel Online Editor Malì Cecere at: mali.cecere@ejr-quartz.com with your proposals.
