Sentinel-2A installed on its payload launcher adapter

Sentinel-2A installed on its payload launcher adapter, on 6 June 2015 at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

The second satellite in Europe’s Copernicus programme is set for launch from Europe’s Spaceport on 23 June 2015.

Sentinel-2 carries an innovative wide-swath, high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation. The second in the two-satellite mission – Sentinel-2B – is being prepared for launch in 2016.

For more information on the mission, visit www.esa.int/sentinel2