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 - 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

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

Sentinel-1

European Data Relay System confirms services for Copernicus…

25/02/2015 2786 views 29 likes

36 years of radar vision

06/02/2015 6432 views 65 likes

Austfonna ice loss

Satellites catch Austfonna shedding ice

23/01/2015 12105 views 95 likes

Matteo Miceli

Satellites guide sailor from treacherous waters

19/12/2014 7725 views 77 likes

Sentinel-1 maps Fogo eruption

Fogo volcano on Sentinel’s radar

02/12/2014 14245 views 102 likes

Laser link offers high-speed delivery

28/11/2014 27225 views 116 likes

Signing the Agreement

Copernicus operations secured until 2021

28/10/2014 8423 views 62 likes

Monitoring ice drift

Copernicus Sentinel-1: making our seas safer

22/10/2014 4904 views 42 likes

Handing over Sentinel-1A

First Copernicus satellite now operational

06/10/2014 9609 views 84 likes

Sentinel toolbox

New toolboxes make using Sentinel data easy

30/09/2014 6831 views 39 likes

Sentinel-1 maps earthquake

Radar vision maps Napa Valley earthquake

02/09/2014 21351 views 96 likes

New views from Sentinel-1A

Sentinel-1 poised to monitor motion

26/08/2014 11096 views 73 likes

Doubling radar vision of Earth

17/07/2014 4777 views 37 likes

Poyang lake

Ten year-old Dragon gains new strength

30/05/2014 6358 views 46 likes

Flood map

Sentinel-1 aids Balkan flood relief

28/05/2014 11287 views 56 likes

Namibia flood mapped by Sentinel-1A

Sentinel-1 aids response to Namibia flood

09/05/2014 6957 views 53 likes

Ice chart

Experts demonstrate versatility of Sentinel-1

08/05/2014 10382 views 56 likes

Brussels as the first image from Sentinel-1A

First radar vision for Copernicus

16/04/2014 22448 views 114 likes

Sentinel-1 radar modes

Testing Sentinel’s radar vision

08/04/2014 6262 views 66 likes

Sentinel-1 performs opening dance routine

04/04/2014 15529 views 113 likes

Sentinel-1A liftoff

Europe lofts first Copernicus environmental satellite

03/04/2014 15462 views 61 likes

Soyuz VS07 raised into vertical position

Sentinel-1 ready for launch

03/04/2014 6690 views 44 likes

Soyuz VS07 transfer from MIK to launch zone

Enabling & Support

Dress rehearsal final step prepares for Sentinel-1

02/04/2014 5694 views 44 likes

Sentinel-1A encapsulation

Last look at Sentinel-1

01/04/2014 5590 views 46 likes

Fully loaded

Sentinel-1 fuelled and ready

26/03/2014 6055 views 62 likes

Main control room

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-1 controllers ready for hectic first days

25/03/2014 4773 views 48 likes

Petermann on the move

Prepping for radar vision

18/03/2014 7542 views 59 likes

Sentinel-1 arrival

First Copernicus satellite at launch site

25/02/2014 8858 views 98 likes

Sentinel-1 spreads its wings

21/02/2014 7636 views 52 likes

Gearing up for a new era in Earth observation

21/01/2014 7475 views 61 likes

Sentinel-1

Checking in on Sentinel-1A

22/11/2013 3415 views 26 likes

Winner of the Sentinel-1 competition

Sentinel-1 competition: and the winner is …

19/11/2013 1497 views 1 likes

Arctic ice

Oil and gas sector gears up for Sentinels

24/10/2013 4424 views 39 likes

Satellites to serve

13/09/2013 2964 views 21 likes

Encapsulation in vacuum chamber

Turning up the heat on Europe’s first Sentinel

09/07/2013 4393 views 43 likes

Vancouver harbour, Canada

International effort helps users get ready for Sentinel-1

07/05/2013 5154 views 25 likes

Simulated Sentinel-1 image

Sentinel-1 to offer new ways of monitoring crops from space

25/05/2011 6145 views 8 likes

Sentinel-3

Value of Sentinels to science highlighted

06/04/2011 1117 views 0 likes

Enabling & Support

Arianespace to launch ESA’s first Sentinel satellite

16/12/2010 1477 views 0 likes

ESA calls for Sentinel-1 Mission Advisory Group members

15/09/2010 965 views 0 likes

Living Planet Symposium

Great strides for GMES

23/07/2010 957 views 0 likes

A step forward for GMES

Signature secures future Sentinels for GMES

12/03/2010 1165 views 0 likes

ESA Member States approve full and open Sentinel data polic…

27/11/2009 3306 views 5 likes

Radarsat-2 image of Flevoland in the Netherlands

A glimpse of future GMES Sentinel-1 radar images

23/04/2009 2790 views 3 likes

InSAR helps Kilauea monitoring

FRINGE workshop to focus on satellite interferometry

26/11/2007 2206 views 3 likes

C-band SAR image of AGRISAR test site

Campaign imagery furthers Sentinel development

17/10/2007 1116 views 0 likes

Mr Liebig, Mr Dordain and Ms Sourisse celebrate signing of procurement contract for Sentinel-1

Contract signed for building of GMES Sentinel-1 satellite

18/06/2007 1893 views 0 likes

Airborne radar image of sea ice, Svalbard, 16 March 2007

IceSAR campaign provides glimpse of future Sentinel-1 image…

20/03/2007 1501 views 1 likes

Measuring chlorophyll content and spectroradiometry

European airborne campaign simulates Sentinel imagery over …

24/07/2006 1867 views 3 likes

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