Sentinel-1A satellite during radio frequency tests

Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the anechoic test chamber during radio frequency tests, at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 30 January 2014.

Sentinel-1A – the first satellite built for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme – is foreseen for launch in the spring of 2014 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.