This day—23 June 2020, marks five years of successful operations of the Sentinel-2A mission of the European Union's Copernicus Programme.

Copernicus Sentinel-2A was launched on 23 June 2015, followed by its twin on 7 March 2017, both delivering information for applications such as agriculture; land ecosystems monitoring; forests management; inland and coastal water quality monitoring; disasters mapping and civil security.

Due to a scheduled maintenance on 22 June on the PDGS infrastructure for Copernicus Sentinel-3A and Copernicus Sentinel-3B products belonging to sensing time window from 03:00 to 06:00 UTC could be delayed.

With reference to the news of 10 June Copernicus Sentinel-2 Long Term Archive temporarily suspended users are informed that the service was resumed on Saturday morning 13 June with a reduced restoration rate, then increased up to nominal operational level as of 16 June around midday. We apologise again for the inconvenience caused.

Due to an issue at ground station level on 15 June 2020, OLC, SLSTR and SRAL Near Real Time Copernicus Sentinel-3A data starting from sensing time (UT) 14:50 to 16:40 (orbit 22543) on 15 June have been missed.

Due to a PDGS scheduled maintenance on 16 June Copernicus Sentinel-3A and Copernicus Sentinel-3B SRAL NRT products (L1/L2) belonging to sensing time window from 06:00 to 15:00 UTC will be delayed.

Infrastructure Security Maintenance activities are scheduled on 16 and 17 June. The maintenance will affect some Data Hub Services.

Due to a network issue, delivery of Copernicus Sentinel-5P near real time (NRT) production may be impacted on 12 June (affecting only orbits scheduled to the Innuvik station).

Until recently, the exploitation of Earth Observation in the coastal domain had been limited by the complication of obtaining the right satellite image—but now Copernicus Sentinel-2 data are making a difference.