ESA - Sentinel-1 - Archive

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The mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is designed as a two-satellite constellation. Each satellite carries an advanced radar instrument to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface. The mission ended for Sentinel-1B in 2022.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-1A - 03 April 2014
Sentinel-1B - 25 April 2016
Sentinel-1C - 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Rocket: Sentinel-1A and -B on Soyuz
Sentinel-1C on Vega-C

1st in the Sentinel series
693 km orbit altitude
7 years mission life

Sentinel-1

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 5775 views 92 likes

Antarctica hikes up sea level

13/06/2018 9697 views 158 likes

Rohingya exodus

Sentinel-1 warns of refugee island flood risk

29/05/2018 4843 views 109 likes

Wheat harvest

Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 11381 views 94 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7144 views 101 likes

Examples of layers used for mapping

Sentinels helping to map minerals

20/03/2018 10680 views 147 likes

Full house for EDRS

13/03/2018 6790 views 102 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5097 views 111 likes

Coast Guard Cutter <i>Maple</i>

Satellites guide ships in icy waters through the cloud

07/11/2017 4225 views 49 likes

Wave height during Hurricane Irma

Sentinel-1 sees through hurricanes

25/10/2017 7354 views 116 likes

Secrets of hidden ice canyons revealed

11/10/2017 17096 views 147 likes

Assessing rice crops with Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1 speeds up crop insurance payouts

17/08/2017 13458 views 96 likes

Widening gap

Does loss lead to instability?

02/08/2017 5660 views 90 likes

Larsen C breaks

Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg

12/07/2017 25679 views 247 likes

Desert locust outbreak

Satellites forewarn of locust plagues

13/06/2017 11395 views 111 likes

Negribreen on the move

Negribreen on the move

12/05/2017 7080 views 78 likes

Satellites track Antarctic ice loss over decades

02/05/2017 8527 views 110 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7079 views 87 likes

TimeScan product: Germany

Urban monitoring boosted by new data processor

04/04/2017 6878 views 56 likes

Kaikoura quake

Satellites shed new light on earthquakes

24/03/2017 10442 views 135 likes

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 15242 views 184 likes

Aletsch Glacier

Satellites monitor landslide in the Alps

03/02/2017 6019 views 48 likes

Wilkins Ice Shelf, 1994–2015

Sharing Earth observation satellite data to help understand…

01/12/2016 4279 views 51 likes

Millennium Tower sinking

Satellites confirm sinking of San Francisco tower

25/11/2016 90894 views 368 likes

Coast Guard aircraft

Iceberg patrol gains faster updates from orbit

09/11/2016 7377 views 84 likes

East–west shift

Sentinel satellites reveal east–west shift in Italian quake

03/11/2016 10410 views 128 likes

European seismic zones

Keep an automatic eye on seismic zones

28/10/2016 8886 views 91 likes

Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space

Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle

31/08/2016 54064 views 332 likes

Ground displacement from Italy’s earthquake

Sentinel-1 provides new insight into Italy’s earthquake

29/08/2016 22152 views 147 likes

ESA’s Dragon cooperation with China extended to 2020

08/07/2016 6828 views 38 likes

Sentinel-1A and -1B combined

Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision

22/06/2016 15247 views 138 likes

Space data give early warnings

Monitoring pipelines from space

06/06/2016 13141 views 102 likes

Czech Agriculture from Space

Sentinels in the fields

01/06/2016 8114 views 68 likes

Tracking every move

Mapping that sinking feeling

01/06/2016 15497 views 154 likes

Flood map of Barguna, Bangladesh

Sentinel-1 helping Cyclone Roanu relief

26/05/2016 6355 views 58 likes

Sentinel-1A detects slick

Sentinel-1A spots potential oil slick from missing EgyptAir…

20/05/2016 30325 views 184 likes

Spotting geohazards with Sentinel-1

Complex data made easy

12/05/2016 4256 views 38 likes

Living Planet 2016

Spotlight on our living planet

09/05/2016 4242 views 50 likes

Sentinel-1B’s first image

Sentinel-1B delivers

28/04/2016 18746 views 137 likes

Sentinel-1B spreads its wings

27/04/2016 7665 views 134 likes

Sentinel-1B launched to complete radar pair

25/04/2016 18604 views 103 likes

Soyuz VS14 in the mobile gantry

Sentinel-1B launch coundown resumed

25/04/2016 18112 views 155 likes

Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1B liftoff delayed another 24 hours

23/04/2016 8018 views 65 likes

Soyuz VS14 upper composite hoisted to the top of the service tower

Sentinel-1B launch postponed

22/04/2016 8499 views 89 likes

Mission control

Enabling & Support

Teams ready for Sentinel-1B launch

21/04/2016 4750 views 43 likes

Fishing in the Mediterranean

Sentinel-1 counts fish

21/04/2016 10545 views 81 likes

Sentinel-1B heads to launch tower

Sentinel-1B in position for liftoff

20/04/2016 5065 views 76 likes

Sentinel-1B launch event at ESRIN

20/04/2016 5934 views 53 likes

Watch live: Sentinel-1B launch

20/04/2016 64736 views 328 likes

Going to space

Enabling & Support

Training beyond the expected

19/04/2016 3276 views 54 likes

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