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A set of Sentinel-1 products processed between 9 December 2014 and 21 January 2015 and made available for online data download had an incorrect relative orbit number reported in the product manifest.
Following the recent decision confirming the ESA/Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) partnership on the European Data Relay System (EDRS), agreement has been reached with the European Commission (EC) for the provision of EDRS services to the European Union Copernicus programme.
Before Sentinel-2A is packed up and shipped to French Guiana for its launch targeted on 12 June, media representatives and specialists got one last look at the second satellite for Europe's Copernicus programme.
Due to the heavy demand for downloads and the extension of the volume stored on the Sentinel-1 Scientific Data Hub beyond the originally planned rolling window there are currently intermittent difficulties in keeping up with the Sentinel-1 production and publishing the latest Sentinel-1 products on the rolling archive.
As Sentinel-2A nears the end of testing before being shipped to its launch site, one of the last jobs has been to make sure the satellite's laser terminal is up to the job of delivering large volumes of data at breakneck speed.
Sentinel-1 has contributed to aid disaster response efforts in Malawi, following devastating floods which have affected the south African nation in January 2015.

ESA is pleased to announce that as of 26 January the Collaborative Data Hub is open for access by the Collaborative Ground Segment partners, via regular operations, including the online publication of all Sentinel-1A data production.

Rapid ice loss in a remote Arctic ice cap has been detected by the Sentinel-1A and CryoSat satellites.

Due to onboard software maintenance, Sentinel-1A will be unavailable on 20 January from 7:30 to 18:00 UTC. No SAR products will be available during this time frame.

While sailing south of Africa on an around-the-world voyage, Matteo Miceli was suddenly alerted to a massive iceberg in his path. Almost 4 km long, the iceberg drifting near the Prince Edward Islands was detected and tracked by European satellites.

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