ESA - Sentinel-2 - Archive

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The mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission is based on a constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit. Each satellite carries an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-2A - 23 June 2015
Sentinel-2B - 7 March 2017
Sentinel-2C - 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Launcher: Vega rocket

10 m resolution
13 spectral bands
290 km swath
5-day revisit time

Sentinel-2

Wheat harvest

Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 11386 views 94 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7145 views 101 likes

Examples of layers used for mapping

Sentinels helping to map minerals

20/03/2018 10681 views 147 likes

Full house for EDRS

13/03/2018 6792 views 102 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5097 views 111 likes

Shrub removal

Space helps forests regenerate

10/01/2018 3012 views 48 likes

African land cover

Africa, classified

03/10/2017 12421 views 78 likes

Naples relayed via laser

First Sentinel-2B images delivered by laser

12/06/2017 19994 views 95 likes

Algal bloom off Belgian coast

Near-shore phytoplankton bloom captured from space

08/06/2017 6159 views 60 likes

Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching

Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching of Great Barrier Reef

24/05/2017 15889 views 100 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7079 views 87 likes

Mapping African land cover

Improving land cover mapping with Sentinel-2

24/03/2017 10590 views 95 likes

Sun glitter

Glitter helps to monitor ocean waves

20/03/2017 6460 views 87 likes

Brindisi, Italy

A ‘toast’ to Copernicus Sentinel-2B as it delivers its firs…

15/03/2017 17327 views 151 likes

Mission control room

Enabling & Support

Orbiting in sunshine

09/03/2017 7325 views 100 likes

Second ‘colour vision’ satellite for Copernicus launched

07/03/2017 16893 views 131 likes

Sentinel-2: high-resolution and multispectral

Enabling & Support

Dressed to thrill

03/03/2017 5194 views 62 likes

Watch live: Sentinel-2B launch

03/03/2017 13608 views 91 likes

#Sentinel2Go launch event at ESOC

03/03/2017 12539 views 60 likes

Sentinel-2B in launch tower

Sentinel-2B poised for liftoff

02/03/2017 6323 views 75 likes

Vega VV09 upper composite transferred to launcher assembly area

Call for Media: launch of Sentinel-2B satellite for Coperni…

28/02/2017 990 views 2 likes

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 15246 views 184 likes

Sentinel-2 brings land into focus

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 teams prepare for space

16/02/2017 6046 views 62 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-2B

Fuel Sentinel-2B: done

16/02/2017 4133 views 54 likes

BASF agriculture test site

Farmers to benefit from ESA–BASF collaboration

10/02/2017 4442 views 60 likes

Revealing Sentinel-2B

Sentinel-2B launch preparations off to a flying start

12/01/2017 9292 views 86 likes

Sentinel-2B satellite at ESA’s site in the Netherlands

Farewell to Sentinel-2B

15/11/2016 6876 views 84 likes

Living in the twilight zone

Satellites help understand what fuels the twilight zone

27/09/2016 4940 views 69 likes

Sentinel-2B in vacuum chamber

Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B

18/07/2016 6027 views 83 likes

Detecting coral bleaching

Looking out for coral bleaching

01/07/2016 3690 views 56 likes

Estonia

Estonia’s first contract with ESA focuses on ocean health

07/06/2016 3765 views 39 likes

Czech Agriculture from Space

Sentinels in the fields

01/06/2016 8115 views 68 likes

Catching sun glitter

Sun glitter reveals coastal waves

19/05/2016 8658 views 74 likes

Living Planet 2016

Spotlight on our living planet

09/05/2016 4242 views 50 likes

Birth of two icebergs

Nansen gives birth to two icebergs

14/04/2016 11428 views 103 likes

Fatu Huku

World’s corals under threat

24/02/2016 6552 views 72 likes

Satellites used to guide farming

Farmers benefit from satellite coverage

02/12/2015 13573 views 96 likes

Ban Ki-moon and Volker Liebig

My Planet from Space exhibition draws special visitor

09/09/2015 2197 views 33 likes

Eye of an algal storm

Sentinel-2 catches eye of algal storm

04/09/2015 37636 views 126 likes

Chasing glacier retreat

Chasing ice

21/08/2015 14375 views 118 likes

Red Sea reefs

Help wanted on tracking biodiversity from space

12/08/2015 7057 views 58 likes

Danube River

Sentinels catch traffic jam

07/08/2015 15485 views 80 likes

Agriculture in Saudi Arabia

First applications from Sentinel-2A

27/07/2015 21325 views 85 likes

Sentinel-2 kids’ competition winner

Student wins Sentinel-2 drawing competition

02/07/2015 4932 views 5 likes

Northwest Italy and southern France from Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 delivers first images

29/06/2015 52749 views 168 likes

Sentinel-2A completes critical first days in space

26/06/2015 7328 views 73 likes

Second Copernicus environmental satellite safely in orbit

23/06/2015 18882 views 107 likes

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 launch timeline

19/06/2015 10464 views 37 likes

Vega VV05 in its mobile gantry

Sentinel-2A poised high

17/06/2015 5448 views 54 likes

Turbidity at the mouth of the Elbe

Worldwide water quality app hits the web

16/06/2015 8217 views 56 likes

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