Earth observation

Copernicus notice details Sentinel-5P near-real-time data gap

The November 9 notice covers six orbits after an earlier restoration; offline products remain available, with possible delivery delays.

11 November 2026 at 1:17 am ISTBy Science Desk1 min read

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Historical data example: ESA’s “Carbon monoxide from fires in North America” shows Sentinel-5P measurements averaged over August 9–11, 2026, before the November 8–9 ground-segment issue. Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2026), processed by ESA. Source: https://www.esa.int/media/carbon-monoxide-from-fires-in-north-america. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/); reproduced unchanged.

A Copernicus notice published on November 9, 2026, documents a Sentinel-5P ground-segment issue affecting near-real-time products for orbits 47011–47016. It dates the affected acquisition interval from 22:19 UTC on November 8 to 06:36 UTC on November 9.

The notice states that near-real-time products for this interval are unavailable, while offline products remain fully available with possible delivery delays. It gives no estimate for the additional delay or a date for recovering the missing near-real-time products.

This is a later interval than the disruption covered in the earlier operational record. Copernicus’s dashboard separately records a return to nominal operations at 18:30 UTC on November 8, before the newly documented ground-segment issue began.

Sentinel-5P provides daily global atmospheric observations used for air-quality, ozone-layer and climate monitoring, according to the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem’s mission page. The product-impact account rests on Copernicus’s operational notices and has not been independently checked against product deliveries.

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