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Due to two Copernicus Sentinel-3B collision avoidance manoeuvres executed on 10 October reduced data quality is expected in the following sensing UTC time intervals:

  • OLCI and SRAL data and all the related NRT/STC/NTC user products are degraded from 17:37:28 to 17:51:27 and from 19:18: 50 to 19:31:50
  • SLSTR data and all the related NRT/STC/NTC user products are degraded from 17:37 to approximately 21:52.

Due to a Copernicus Sentinel-3A spacecraft manoeuvre performed on 15 October, data degradation is expected for both SRAL and SLSTR instruments.

All the related NRT/STC/NCT user products are degraded from 06:15 to 06:45 UTC.

Due to a planned Copernicus Sentinel-3B manoeuvre executed on 16 October reduced data quality is expected in the following UTC sensing times:

  • SRAL data and all the related NRT/STC/NTC user products are degraded from 06:52 to 07:28 UTC
  • SLSTR data and all the related NRT/STC/NTC user products are degraded from 06:52 to 09:15 UTC.
On the 23 October, the observation scenario of Copernicus Sentinel-2B will be extended including the acquisition of Northern Europe and Arctic Areas in low illumination conditions (sun zenith angles up to 85°).

An expansion of the observation scenarios will be available on 20 October for Copernicus Sentinel-2A, and 23 October for Copernicus Sentinel-2B. The following new areas will be included:

  • Pacific Islands (e.g. Tuamotu, Austral Islands, Kiribati, Juan Fernandez, Archipelago.) 
  • Bermuda Island
  • Sargasso Sea.

Seasonal wetlands are common in Mediterranean climates. They flood during rainy seasons in autumn and winter and dry-up in summer. Precipitation changes in these areas have profound effects on the dynamics of wetlands, affecting plants and animals that inhabit them. These wetlands can suffer changes in their hydrology, becoming transformed into permanent lakes or completely drying-up—but Copernicus Sentinels are making a difference.

Due to a scheduled maintenance on the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite on 26 September all payloads were passivated and no science data were generated during the following time sensing window:

  • OLCI: data unavailable from 08:13:21 to 11:19:23 UTC
  • SRAL: data unavailable from 08:43:56 to 11:19:55 UTC
  • SLSTR: data unavailable from 08:51:16 to 11:20:20 UTC.

A Danish R&D project is developing an automatic sea ice product service, which can meet the increased demands for better and more timely sea ice information, using the extensive amount of free and available data from the Copernicus Sentinel satellites, along with novel machine learning techniques for satellite data fusion and sea-ice information retrieval.

A new version of the Copernicus Sentinel High Level Operations Plan (HLOP) document has been released.
The nominal production of Copernicus Sentinel-2 data has encountered a contingency preventing the production of about 30% of all new acquisitions between 30 September 09:54:50 UTC and 1 October 08:36:40 UTC.

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