After months of rigorous testing at Airbus facilities in Germany, the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is ready to be placed in the transport container that will keep it safe during transit to the launch site.
Offering ‘colour vision’ for Europe’s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, the Sentinel-2 mission combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities to monitor Earth’s changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy. Information from this mission is helping to improve agricultural practices, monitor the world’s forest, detect pollution in lakes and coastal waters, and contribute to disaster mapping, to name a few.
Copernicus Sentinel-2C is scheduled to be launched in September 2024 on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.