Free and open data delivered by the Copernicus Sentinels are fueling a surge in scientific innovation, according to an extensive analysis of peer-reviewed literature.

The high-quality information that is flowing back to Earth from the satellites is enabling scientists from around the world to improve understanding of the planet and develop new applications.

This is helping ensure that European citizens continue to reap the enormous benefits of the Copernicus Sentinel missions.

Due to Copernicus Sentinel-3B Moon calibration, data will be degraded on hereafter products:

• Copernicus Sentinel-3BSLSTR: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 08/12/2022T15:35:42 to 08/12/2022T16:26:12

• Copernicus Sentinel-3B OLCI: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 08/12/2022T16:20:09 to 08/12/2022T 16:26:12

• Copernicus Sentinel-3B SRAL: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 08/12/2022T15:36:42 to 08/12/2022T16:07:18

Due to predicted outage for Copernicus Sentinel-3A Out-of-Plane Manoeuvre #073, data will be degraded on hereafter products:

• Copernicus Sentinel-3ASLSTR: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 08/12/2022T11:09:38 to 08/12/2022T11:44:55

• Copernicus Sentinel-3A SRAL: products degradation is expected for sensing time from 08/12/2022T11:09:38 to 08/12/2022T11:44:55

In preamble, we are pleased to notify that a global data reprocessing activity of the Sentinel-2 historical archive was started with an evolution of the operational processor (version 6.1) which aims at generating consistent Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B time series with a uniform processing baseline, referred to as the Copernicus Sentinel-2 Collection-1.

A routine decontamination activity of the Sentinel-2B MSI is planned to take place over a continuous period of 24-hours between 12 December 09:00 and 13 December 09:00 UTC (corresponding approximately to the period between absolute orbits 30134 and 30220). During this temporal window no MSI acquisition will take place.

Correlated calibration activities will be performed around the decontamination period that will further affect the nominal acquisition plan between 12/12/2022 at 01:32 and 14/12/2022 at 00:33 UTC.

Due to predicted outage for Copernicus Sentinel-3A SRAL annual calibration, SRAL products degradation is expected for sensing time from 03/12/2022T 20:21:20 to 03/12/2022T 20:22:41 UTC.

ESA is pleased to inform of the forthcoming release of Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor (S5P) full mission reprocessed datasets for Carbon Monoxide (L2__CO___), Total Ozone (L2_O3___), CLOUD (L2_CLOUD_) and Absorbing Aerosol Index (L2__AER_AI) products, which will be gradually published starting from around the 5th of December 2022.

Due to predicted outage for Copernicus Sentinel-3B In-Plane Manoeuvre execution, SLSTR products degradation is expected for sensing time from 22/11/2022T07:45:39 to 22/11/2022T07:55:44 UTC.

Due to predicted outage for Copernicus Sentinel-3A In-Plane manoeuvre, SLSTR products degradation is expected for sensing time from 22/11/2022T08:20:45 to 22/11/2022T08:30:35 UTC.

Due to an anomaly occurring in the Copernicus S5P ground segment some issues have affected the NRTI and OFFL processing.

Concerning the NRTI production on 2022-11-17/18  there was an unavailability affecting the data since orbit 26397. The issue has been fixed starting with orbit 26420 and the processing is back to nominal status in term of completeness and data quality. 

Concerning the L2 OFFL production since orbit 26381 of 2022-11-15, several gaps are present in the following product types:  AER_LH, CLOUD, HCHO, O3, O3_PR, NO2, SO2 and CH4. The issue has been understood and the OFFL production will be recovered as soon as possible.

Our apologies for the inconvenience. Further news will be published as appropriate.