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A database maintenance activity is foreseen on the Sentinel-3 Pre-Operations Data Hub on Friday, 01 June 2018 from 08:00 to 14:00 UTC.
Due to a SAR anomaly, Sentinel-1A was unavailable on 31 May 2018 from 06:37 UTC to 09:54 UTC.

Due to a network issue at the Svalbard Core Ground Segment site, Sentinel-3A NRT products in the following time windows (sensing time) are missing:

  • OLC and SLSTR L1/L2: from 13:54 to 15:35 UTC on 27 May 2018 and from 18:00 UTC on 27 May to 09:42 UTC on 29 May
  • SRAL L1/L2: from 05:39 to 10:13 UTC on 28 May
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the signature of the Baveno Manifesto, a special event has been organised by the European Commission in partnership with ESA and with the support of the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.
In what the UN describes as the world's fastest growing refugee crisis, almost 700 000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017. With the Bangladesh government proposing a vulnerable low-lying island as a relocation site for thousands, Sentinel-1 data have shown how unsuitable this site would be.

Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano has erupted again, causing an extensive explosion of sulphur dioxide and ash that could pose a risk to people's health and to aviation.

Infrastructure maintenance activities are scheduled for the Data Hubs on 30 May, and the 06 and 07 June 2018.
Due to a network issue at the Svalbard Collaborative Ground Segment site, which is still under recovery, no Sentinel-3A Near Real-Time products have been disseminated to the S3PreOps Hub and Open Hub from 13:45 UTC on 27 May 2018.
In a move that could benefit around 22 million farmers, the EU's Common Agricultural Policy has entered the space age. Offering detailed and timely information on crops and farmland, the Copernicus Sentinels are now being used to simplify and modernise this longest-serving EU policy.
This timelapse video shows the Sentinel-3B satellite being prepared for liftoff on 25 April 2018 from Plesetsk in Russia. Sentinel-3B joined its twin, Sentinel-3A, in orbit.

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