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Awarding outstanding ideas and applications that use Earth observation data to tackle challenges faced by business and society, the Copernicus Masters 2018 competition is now open for submissions.

A new version of the Sentinel High Level Operations Plan (HLOP) document has been released.
With reference to the news published on the 21 March 2018, users are informed that the start of Maintenance 2 has been postponed until 13:00 UTC on 03 April 2018.
With the Sentinel-3B satellite now at the Plesetsk launch site in Russia and liftoff set for 25 April, engineers are steaming ahead with the task of getting Europe's next Copernicus satellite ready for its journey into orbit.
Due to an anomaly on 17 March 2018, all NRT/NTC/STC Level-1 and Level-2 user products are missing from sensing time 2:49:54 UTC to 14:39:44 UTC (absolute orbits impacted 10834-10835, relative orbits 81-82 of cycle 29). The issue is currently under investigation and further notifications concerning the nature of the anomaly will be released afterwards.
According to this year's Global Risk Report by the World Economic Forum, water crises are one of the five biggest risks to society. ESA is working with development banks to help water-resource authorities use information from satellites to manage this precious resource.

The European Union's Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites, together with the COSMO-SkyMed constellation, provided important data related to the 2017 Ischia earthquake.

Following the maintenance activities to upgrade the storage facilities on the Data Hubs at the beginning of March, two new activities have been scheduled for improving the data access performance.
Be a part of Europe's Earth observation revolution by applying to join experts at one of two Sentinel-3B launch #SocialSpace activities on 25 April.

The Copernicus Marine Service has released a new ocean information product. The Ocean Monitoring Indicators (OMIs) are free downloadable datasets which cover the past 25 years of key variables used in monitoring oceanic trends in line with climate change, including ocean warming, sea level rise and melting of sea ice. This free and open ocean information allows users to track the vital health signs of the ocean over the past quarter of a century.

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