Earth-observation services

Copernicus issues access notice for November service upgrade

The November 9 notice warns of possible brief API interruptions and processing delays during work scheduled for November 10–13. It does not document an observed outage.

11 November 2026 at 2:34 pm ISTBy Science Desk1 min read

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Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery of the Australian Alps from August 2024, showing clouds, terrain and snow. This archival data example does not depict the November 2026 service upgrade. Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2024), processed by ESA. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/); reproduced unchanged.

The Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem has issued an access notice for an upgrade of Copernicus Browser and Sentinel Hub services during November 10–13, 2026. Its November 9 announcement warns users of possible brief interruptions and delays during the work.

The notice identifies three application programming interfaces that may experience interrupted access: the Batch Processing API, Asynchronous Processing API and Batch Statistical API.

It also warns of short delays in visualisations of new Earth-observation products, importing users’ own image tiles, creating collections and configuring standard geospatial web services.

The announcement gives no time of day for the work or duration for any individual interruption. It describes possible service effects during the scheduled upgrade window, without documenting an observed outage or confirming that the upgrade has finished.

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