[MUSCATE news] back to nominal production

In English Sentinel-2 THEIA

Olivier Hagolle, 14 mars 2019

Good news, MUSCATE is back to nominal production !The source of the issue (archiving the produced data) is not solved yet, but it has been mitigated to allow to come back to real time production. A big thanks to the exploitation team and to the CNES computing center who gave us extra disk space to store the files we do not send immediately to the archiving facility.  

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