Concerning line in Sentinel 1 images

I was looking at recent Sentinel 1 images and they all have a line that appears to be location (likely) between the 1st and second subswaths. Is there a failure in the satellite somewhere? I double checked by processing with ESA’s Snap sentinel-1 toolbox and also see it there. It was clearly due to the VH band (the VV band seemed OK). Have there been any reported issues from the ESA on this?

Example:

I also see the lines along both boarders of sub swaths in earlier images. I didn’t check this one against Snap though yet. What is going on? Really concerning regarding data quality and trust of these satellites. Would have expected de-bursting to remove such artifacts…

Hi @justjohnp ,

I tried to search on scihubnews but there was no related issue being reported. Will try to investigate and report if anything related is found.

Best Regards