ESA - Sentinel-1 - Archive

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The mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is designed as a two-satellite constellation. Each satellite carries an advanced radar instrument to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface. The mission ended for Sentinel-1B in 2022.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-1A - 03 April 2014
Sentinel-1B - 25 April 2016
Sentinel-1C - 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Rocket: Sentinel-1A and -B on Soyuz
Sentinel-1C on Vega-C

1st in the Sentinel series
693 km orbit altitude
7 years mission life

Sentinel-1

Ground displacement from Italy’s earthquake

Sentinel-1 provides new insight into Italy’s earthquake

29/08/2016 22415 views 147 likes

ESA’s Dragon cooperation with China extended to 2020

08/07/2016 6897 views 38 likes

Sentinel-1A and -1B combined

Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision

22/06/2016 15449 views 139 likes

Space data give early warnings

Monitoring pipelines from space

06/06/2016 13274 views 102 likes

Czech Agriculture from Space

Sentinels in the fields

01/06/2016 8297 views 68 likes

Tracking every move

Mapping that sinking feeling

01/06/2016 15590 views 154 likes

Flood map of Barguna, Bangladesh

Sentinel-1 helping Cyclone Roanu relief

26/05/2016 6424 views 58 likes

Sentinel-1A detects slick

Sentinel-1A spots potential oil slick from missing EgyptAir…

20/05/2016 30411 views 184 likes

Spotting geohazards with Sentinel-1

Complex data made easy

12/05/2016 4302 views 38 likes

Living Planet 2016

Spotlight on our living planet

09/05/2016 4265 views 50 likes

Sentinel-1B’s first image

Sentinel-1B delivers

28/04/2016 18892 views 137 likes

Sentinel-1B spreads its wings

27/04/2016 7729 views 134 likes

Sentinel-1B launched to complete radar pair

25/04/2016 18705 views 104 likes

Soyuz VS14 in the mobile gantry

Sentinel-1B launch coundown resumed

25/04/2016 18159 views 156 likes

Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1B liftoff delayed another 24 hours

23/04/2016 8079 views 65 likes

Soyuz VS14 upper composite hoisted to the top of the service tower

Sentinel-1B launch postponed

22/04/2016 8528 views 89 likes

Mission control

Enabling & Support

Teams ready for Sentinel-1B launch

21/04/2016 4795 views 43 likes

Fishing in the Mediterranean

Sentinel-1 counts fish

21/04/2016 10656 views 81 likes

Sentinel-1B heads to launch tower

Sentinel-1B in position for liftoff

20/04/2016 5100 views 76 likes

Sentinel-1B launch event at ESRIN

20/04/2016 5948 views 53 likes

Watch live: Sentinel-1B launch

20/04/2016 64834 views 328 likes

Going to space

Enabling & Support

Training beyond the expected

19/04/2016 3319 views 54 likes

Sentinel-1 sees rice paddy drop in the Mekong Delta

18/04/2016 11325 views 82 likes

Birth of two icebergs

Nansen gives birth to two icebergs

14/04/2016 11522 views 103 likes

Riding Soyuz

Hitching a ride with Sentinel-1B

12/04/2016 4240 views 59 likes

Sentinel-1B arrives in Cayenne

Preparing for more radar vision

10/03/2016 3755 views 45 likes

Landslides threaten transport networks

Keeping transport systems on track

29/02/2016 4338 views 52 likes

Sentinel-1A and Canadian Ice Service chart Davis Strait

Canada breaks the ice with Sentinel-1 data

21/12/2015 4234 views 52 likes

Deal sealed for new Sentinel-1 satellites

15/12/2015 7933 views 56 likes

Ice sheet in motion

International effort reveals Greenland ice loss

13/11/2015 12183 views 131 likes

Ban Ki-moon and Volker Liebig

My Planet from Space exhibition draws special visitor

09/09/2015 2221 views 33 likes

Chasing glacier retreat

Chasing ice

21/08/2015 14490 views 118 likes

Danube River

Sentinels catch traffic jam

07/08/2015 15553 views 80 likes

Danube Delta interferogram

Wetland management on the radar

11/06/2015 4700 views 43 likes

Comparing surface deformation data

Sentinel-1 brings radar remote sensing to new level

08/06/2015 8674 views 42 likes

Nepal earthquake

Nepal earthquake on the radar

29/04/2015 29720 views 135 likes

Sentinel-1

Happy birthday, Sentinel-1A

03/04/2015 3509 views 35 likes

Campi Flegrei monitored by Sentinel-1

Slight surface movements on the radar

23/03/2015 9711 views 68 likes

London, UK

UK joins Sentinel Collaborative Ground Segment

19/03/2015 3724 views 34 likes

Paris, France

France guaranteed access to Sentinel data

18/03/2015 2773 views 26 likes

European Data Relay System confirms services for Copernicus…

25/02/2015 2710 views 29 likes

36 years of radar vision

06/02/2015 6366 views 65 likes

Austfonna ice loss

Satellites catch Austfonna shedding ice

23/01/2015 11990 views 95 likes

Matteo Miceli

Satellites guide sailor from treacherous waters

19/12/2014 7694 views 77 likes

Sentinel-1 maps Fogo eruption

Fogo volcano on Sentinel’s radar

02/12/2014 14152 views 102 likes

Laser link offers high-speed delivery

28/11/2014 27084 views 116 likes

Signing the Agreement

Copernicus operations secured until 2021

28/10/2014 8338 views 62 likes

Monitoring ice drift

Copernicus Sentinel-1: making our seas safer

22/10/2014 4875 views 42 likes

Handing over Sentinel-1A

First Copernicus satellite now operational

06/10/2014 9529 views 84 likes

Sentinel toolbox

New toolboxes make using Sentinel data easy

30/09/2014 6781 views 39 likes

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