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With four days to liftoff, the next Sentinel satellite is now on the launch pad at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
Starting on Monday 9 October, Sentinel-2B joins Sentinel-2A on ESA's Copernicus Open Access Data Hub and on the accompanying API Hub interface; the access point for users of the scripting interface.

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, senior scientist at France's Collecte Localisation Satellites, Marie-Hélène Rio, joins the show to discuss how data on ocean surface currents by the Sentinel-3 satellite mission are used by people working at sea.

As preparations for the launch of Sentinel-5P continue on track, the team at Russia's Plesetsk site has bid farewell to the satellite as it was sealed from view in the Rockot fairing. Liftoff is set for 13 October at 09:27 GMT (11:27 CEST).

Africa classified

03 October 2017

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From the barren Sahara to lush jungles, the first high-resolution map classifying land cover types on the entire African continent has been released. The map was created using a year's worth of data from the Sentinel-2A satellite.

Copernicus atmosphere

03 October 2017

Sentinel-5P will soon join the other Copernicus Sentinel satellites in orbit. Copernicus is the world's largest environmental monitoring programme, and is operated by ESA and the European Commission. With Sentinel-5P, Copernicus will have its first satellite dedicated to the monitoring of atmospheric chemistry. These measurements are important to observe air pollution and climate change.
The registration for the first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Radar Remote Sensing is now open.
Sentinel-1A was unavailable on 01 October 2017 between 12:06 UTC and 20:02 UTC, due to an onboard software anomaly.

We would like to inform the users that there has been a delay in the publication of Sentinel-1 products starting from Saturday, 23 September 2017, at 5:00 UTC and ending on Tuesday, 26 September 2017 at 20:00 UTC, due to an infrastructure performance issue.

Teaming up for Sentinel-5P

26 September 2017

In this special edition of the Earth from Space video programme, Nico van Putten from the Netherlands Space Office and Jonathan Banting from Airbus Defence and Space discuss Sentinel-5P's unique Tropomi instrument and the challenges in building the satellite to accommodate it.

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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.