Topic: Sentinel-6A Service
Date/Time Issued: January 16, 2026 1624Z
Product(s) or Data Impacted: Sentinel-6A Service
Date/Time of Initial Impact: January 15, 2026 0723Z
Date/Time of Expected End: January 15, 2026 1451Z
Length of the Outage/Event: 7 hours and 28 minutes
| Message number: | 14027 |
| Message creation: | Fri Jan 16 15:03:49 UTC 2026 |
| Type: | Service Alert |
| Ann Nr: | 12993 |
| Rev: | 0 |
| Start Time: | 2026-01-15 07:23:00.0 |
| End Time: | 2026-01-15 14:51:00.0 |
| Satellites: | Sentinel-6A |
| Subject: | ground-segment-anomaly |
| Impact: | data-degraded |
| Detail: | Service has been resumed. There was an issue with the provision of NRT GNSS based orbits. The altimetry products are generated with alternative available orbits solutions. This may impact the Sea Level retrievals; users are advised to check the quality flags within the products. Wind and Wave geophysical retrievals are not expected to be affected. |
| Revision History: | |
| Status: | recovered |
| Issue Time: | 2026-01-16 15:03:32.0 |
| Services: | NRT Altimetry HR L2 Products - S6A NRT P4 HR L2P (SLA) - S6A |
| Name: | EUMETSAT |
| Address: | Eumetsat-Allee 1 D-64295 Darmstadt Germany |
| Telephone: | +49 6151 807 3660/3770 |
| Fax: | +49 6151 807 3790 |
| E-mail: | ops@eumetsat.int |
| User Portal: | https://user.eumetsat.int |