Sentinel-1B: Latest from Kourou

Date: Thu, Apr 21, 2016 | 11:00 - 11:30 GMT | 13:00 - 13:30 CEST

Type: ESA TV News

Format: 16:9

Sentinel-1B satellite ready on its launch pad in Kourou.   

Lift off on top of a Soyuz rocket is scheduled on 22 April from Europe’ Spaceport in French Guiana.

Sentinel-1B will join in space its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, sent two years  ago. Both carry an advanced radar for all-weather, day-and-night coverage of Earth’s surface in the framework of EU’s Copernicus Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme. 

Under Soyuz fairing also "Fly Your satellite" , 3 student-built CubeSats, from Belgium, Denmark and Italy, and Microscope for the French Space Agency.

This B Roll will include latest images of preparation of these payloads in Guiana with interviews of ESA management.

It will also be available from ESA TV ftp:

Server: tvdownload.esa.int
Login: esa
Password: ftp4esa 

More information at: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Overview4

Satellite Parameters:

EUTELSAT 7B @ 7 deg East TXP B1 SLOT 1B 6MHz
D/link freq: 10,964.5 MHZ Pol: X/horizontal
Signal: HD 1080i 50Hz MPEG4/H.264 4:2:0 Clear
Mod: DVB-S2/8PSK SR:4.9373 Ms/s FEC 3/4
Pilot:on Roll-off 0.20 DR: 10.7514 Mbps
Audio 1: English
Audio2: French

For any inquiries regarding satellite or ftp reception please contact the ESA TV production team:
Dominique Detain at dominique.detain@esa.int  / tel + 33 685 114 681
Chris Courtenay Taylor at chrisct@worldwidepictures.tv / tel + 44 7774 275 951