ESA - Sentinel-2 - Archive

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The mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission is based on a constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit. Each satellite carries an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-2A - 23 June 2015
Sentinel-2B - 7 March 2017
Sentinel-2C - 5 September 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Launcher: Vega rocket

10 m resolution
13 spectral bands
290 km swath
5-day revisit time

Sentinel-2

Sentinel-2B in launch tower

Sentinel-2B poised for liftoff

02/03/2017 6422 views 75 likes

Vega VV09 upper composite transferred to launcher assembly area

Call for Media: launch of Sentinel-2B satellite for Coperni…

28/02/2017 1057 views 2 likes

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 16819 views 185 likes

Sentinel-2 brings land into focus

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 teams prepare for space

16/02/2017 6565 views 62 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-2B

Fuel Sentinel-2B: done

16/02/2017 4230 views 54 likes

BASF agriculture test site

Farmers to benefit from ESA–BASF collaboration

10/02/2017 4587 views 61 likes

Revealing Sentinel-2B

Sentinel-2B launch preparations off to a flying start

12/01/2017 9461 views 86 likes

Sentinel-2B satellite at ESA’s site in the Netherlands

Farewell to Sentinel-2B

15/11/2016 6956 views 84 likes

Living in the twilight zone

Satellites help understand what fuels the twilight zone

27/09/2016 5119 views 69 likes

Sentinel-2B in vacuum chamber

Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B

18/07/2016 6113 views 83 likes

Detecting coral bleaching

Looking out for coral bleaching

01/07/2016 3779 views 56 likes

Estonia

Estonia’s first contract with ESA focuses on ocean health

07/06/2016 3822 views 39 likes

Czech Agriculture from Space

Sentinels in the fields

01/06/2016 8391 views 68 likes

Catching sun glitter

Sun glitter reveals coastal waves

19/05/2016 8872 views 75 likes

Living Planet 2016

Spotlight on our living planet

09/05/2016 4289 views 50 likes

Birth of two icebergs

Nansen gives birth to two icebergs

14/04/2016 11575 views 103 likes

Fatu Huku

World’s corals under threat

24/02/2016 6694 views 72 likes

Satellites used to guide farming

Farmers benefit from satellite coverage

02/12/2015 13763 views 97 likes

Ban Ki-moon and Volker Liebig

My Planet from Space exhibition draws special visitor

09/09/2015 2243 views 33 likes

Eye of an algal storm

Sentinel-2 catches eye of algal storm

04/09/2015 38164 views 126 likes

Chasing glacier retreat

Chasing ice

21/08/2015 14564 views 118 likes

Red Sea reefs

Help wanted on tracking biodiversity from space

12/08/2015 7315 views 59 likes

Danube River

Sentinels catch traffic jam

07/08/2015 15592 views 80 likes

Agriculture in Saudi Arabia

First applications from Sentinel-2A

27/07/2015 21690 views 85 likes

Sentinel-2 kids’ competition winner

Student wins Sentinel-2 drawing competition

02/07/2015 5123 views 5 likes

Northwest Italy and southern France from Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 delivers first images

29/06/2015 54013 views 169 likes

Sentinel-2A completes critical first days in space

26/06/2015 7422 views 73 likes

Second Copernicus environmental satellite safely in orbit

23/06/2015 19068 views 108 likes

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 launch timeline

19/06/2015 10749 views 37 likes

Vega VV05 in its mobile gantry

Sentinel-2A poised high

17/06/2015 5491 views 54 likes

Turbidity at the mouth of the Elbe

Worldwide water quality app hits the web

16/06/2015 8664 views 59 likes

Encapsulation begins

Sentinel-2A sealed from view

09/06/2015 5387 views 44 likes

Sentinel-2A in Kourou

New launch date set for Sentinel-2A

04/06/2015 9343 views 64 likes

Big bird arrives

Preparing to launch ‘colour vision’ satellite

23/04/2015 8976 views 74 likes

'Colour vision' photo competition

Calling all photographers!

13/04/2015 20131 views 85 likes

Last stretch before being packed tight

08/04/2015 5946 views 54 likes

Last look at Sentinel-2A

24/02/2015 10205 views 91 likes

Sentinel-2 practises laser spin

11/02/2015 5652 views 49 likes

Trial separation prepares for final release

30/10/2014 2412 views 37 likes

Signing the Agreement

Copernicus operations secured until 2021

28/10/2014 8400 views 62 likes

Sentinel toolbox

New toolboxes make using Sentinel data easy

30/09/2014 6818 views 39 likes

Sentinel-2A with solar wing

A wing for Sentinel-2A

01/09/2014 3861 views 45 likes

Bringing Sentinel-2 into focus

28/05/2014 3166 views 29 likes

Looking ahead to Sentinel-2

26/05/2014 2709 views 33 likes

Free access to Copernicus Sentinel satellite data

15/11/2013 64116 views 346 likes

Satellites to serve

13/09/2013 2955 views 21 likes

Gabon forest cover

Spotlight on Sentinel-2

04/05/2012 2423 views 2 likes

A mockup of the future Sentinel-2 mission

Earth from Space: The future of Earth observation

20/04/2012 2755 views 0 likes

Contract signing

Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites

09/02/2012 2025 views 0 likes

Two GMES satellites to be launched on Europe’s new Vega roc…

16/12/2011 1387 views 0 likes

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