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 in Kourou, French Guiana, 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