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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.

Observations derived from Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery show that wave stresses—which can be highly variable—are important external forces on sea ice within a few hundred kilometres of the ice edge.

We would like to inform users that due to a planning uplink issue, the following short unavailability periods of satellite operations occurred on 22 May 2018:
  • Sentinel-1A, from 16:52 UTC to 19:00 UTC
  • Sentinel-1B, from 17:37 UTC to 18:22 UTC.
The Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite captured this image of Zambezi Delta on 28 September 2016. Zambezi Delta is located in Mozambique and is one of the most diverse and productive river delta systems in the world.
As part of ESA's Sentinel Ambassadors initiative, Ramón Torres, the Sentinel-1 project manager, returned to his old university, the Technical University of Madrid in Spain, to talk to students about his professional path into the space industry and to offer insight into ESA and Europe's Copernicus programme.
On 23 May 2018, a new Processing Baseline (02.08) will be deployed for Sentinel-2 L2A products. The first acquisitions featuring baseline 02.08 will be dated with 2018-05-23T09:50:00 and 2018-05-23T09:00:00 UTC sensing time for Sentinel2-A and Sentinel2-B, respectively.

As previously announced, a campaign has been planned for the Sentinel Open Data Access Hub and Copernicus Service Data Hub to republish the Sentinel-2A Level-1C products, from their historical format into the 'Complete Single Tile' format introduced in December 2016.

Data from the Sentinel-1 and -5P satellites of the European Union's Copernicus programme are being used to better understand the mechanisms behind volcanic eruptions and landslides in Central Africa.

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