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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 - 5 December 2024 
              Sentinel-1D - second half of 2025
  • Site: Kourou, French Guiana
  • Rocket: Sentinel-1A and -B on Soyuz 
                  Sentinel-1C on Vega-C 
                  Sentinel-1D on Ariane 6
Sentinel-1
Halloween Crack
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Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

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Aletsch Glacier
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Satellites monitor landslide in the Alps

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Wilkins Ice Shelf, 1994–2015
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Sharing Earth observation satellite data to help understand…

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Millennium Tower sinking
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Satellites confirm sinking of San Francisco tower

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Coast Guard aircraft
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Iceberg patrol gains faster updates from orbit

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East–west shift
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Sentinel satellites reveal east–west shift in Italian quake

03/11/2016 10533 views 128 likes
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European seismic zones
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Keep an automatic eye on seismic zones

28/10/2016 9047 views 91 likes
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Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space
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Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle

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Ground displacement from Italy’s earthquake
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Sentinel-1 provides new insight into Italy’s earthquake

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ESA’s Dragon cooperation with China extended to 2020

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Sentinel-1A and -1B combined
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Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision

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Space data give early warnings
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Monitoring pipelines from space

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Czech Agriculture from Space
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Sentinels in the fields

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Tracking every move
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Mapping that sinking feeling

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Flood map of Barguna, Bangladesh
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Sentinel-1 helping Cyclone Roanu relief

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

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Spotting geohazards with Sentinel-1
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Complex data made easy

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Living Planet 2016
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Spotlight on our living planet

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Sentinel-1B’s first image
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Sentinel-1B delivers

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Sentinel-1B spreads its wings

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Sentinel-1B launched to complete radar pair

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Soyuz VS14 in the mobile gantry
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Sentinel-1B launch coundown resumed

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Sentinel-1
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Sentinel-1B liftoff delayed another 24 hours

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Soyuz VS14 upper composite hoisted to the top of the service tower
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Sentinel-1B launch postponed

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Mission control
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Teams ready for Sentinel-1B launch

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Fishing in the Mediterranean
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Sentinel-1 counts fish

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Sentinel-1B heads to launch tower
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Sentinel-1B in position for liftoff

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Sentinel-1B launch event at ESRIN

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Watch live: Sentinel-1B launch

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Going to space
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Training beyond the expected

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Sentinel-1 sees rice paddy drop in the Mekong Delta

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Birth of two icebergs
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Nansen gives birth to two icebergs

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Riding Soyuz
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Hitching a ride with Sentinel-1B

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Sentinel-1B arrives in Cayenne
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Preparing for more radar vision

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Landslides threaten transport networks
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Keeping transport systems on track

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Sentinel-1A and Canadian Ice Service chart Davis Strait
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Canada breaks the ice with Sentinel-1 data

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Deal sealed for new Sentinel-1 satellites

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Ice sheet in motion
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International effort reveals Greenland ice loss

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Ban Ki-moon and Volker Liebig
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My Planet from Space exhibition draws special visitor

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Chasing glacier retreat
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Chasing ice

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Danube River
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Sentinels catch traffic jam

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Danube Delta interferogram
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Wetland management on the radar

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Comparing surface deformation data
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Sentinel-1 brings radar remote sensing to new level

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Nepal earthquake
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Nepal earthquake on the radar

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Sentinel-1
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Happy birthday, Sentinel-1A

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Campi Flegrei monitored by Sentinel-1
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Slight surface movements on the radar

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London, UK
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UK joins Sentinel Collaborative Ground Segment

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Paris, France
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France guaranteed access to Sentinel data

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European Data Relay System confirms services for Copernicus…

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36 years of radar vision

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