The Copernicus Sentinel family is almost fully composed of twins. Because of their large field of view, these twins see many locations in the High Arctic two or more times per day, with time lags of minutes to hours. In this resulting time-lapse, satellite imagery of a range of short-lived movements on Earth's surface can be detected.

A ground segment anomaly has been affecting the nominal production of Copernicus Sentinel-2A data since 6 November, preventing the availability of about 30% of all new Sentinel-2A acquisitions since sensing orbit 22827.

On 11 October, some 95 km from the Saudi city of Jeddah, an Iranian-owned oil tanker was damaged, resulting in the loss of oil in the Red Sea. The Copernicus Sentinels are being used to monitor the resulting oil spill.

Service maintenance activities are scheduled on the Copernicus Open Access Hub on Monday and Wednesday.

Due to maintenance performed on the ground on 23 October, the availability in the Data Hubs of some Copernicus Sentinel-2A products from sensing orbit 22638 to 22641 and Copernicus Sentinel-2B products from sensing orbit 13728 to 13732 is delayed.