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

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 15232 views 184 likes

Sentinel-2 brings land into focus

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 teams prepare for space

16/02/2017 6034 views 62 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-2B

Fuel Sentinel-2B: done

16/02/2017 4132 views 54 likes

BASF agriculture test site

Farmers to benefit from ESA–BASF collaboration

10/02/2017 4439 views 60 likes

Revealing Sentinel-2B

Sentinel-2B launch preparations off to a flying start

12/01/2017 9289 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 4931 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 3682 views 56 likes

Estonia

Estonia’s first contract with ESA focuses on ocean health

07/06/2016 3764 views 39 likes

Czech Agriculture from Space

Sentinels in the fields

01/06/2016 8107 views 68 likes

Catching sun glitter

Sun glitter reveals coastal waves

19/05/2016 8653 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 11426 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 13566 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 37623 views 126 likes

Chasing glacier retreat

Chasing ice

21/08/2015 14373 views 118 likes

Red Sea reefs

Help wanted on tracking biodiversity from space

12/08/2015 7052 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 21316 views 85 likes

Sentinel-2 kids’ competition winner

Student wins Sentinel-2 drawing competition

02/07/2015 4927 views 5 likes

Northwest Italy and southern France from Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 delivers first images

29/06/2015 52728 views 168 likes

Sentinel-2A completes critical first days in space

26/06/2015 7325 views 73 likes

Second Copernicus environmental satellite safely in orbit

23/06/2015 18879 views 107 likes

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 launch timeline

19/06/2015 10459 views 37 likes

Vega VV05 in its mobile gantry

Sentinel-2A poised high

17/06/2015 5446 views 54 likes

Turbidity at the mouth of the Elbe

Worldwide water quality app hits the web

16/06/2015 8209 views 56 likes

Encapsulation begins

Sentinel-2A sealed from view

09/06/2015 5293 views 44 likes

Sentinel-2A in Kourou

New launch date set for Sentinel-2A

04/06/2015 9052 views 64 likes

Big bird arrives

Preparing to launch ‘colour vision’ satellite

23/04/2015 8898 views 74 likes

'Colour vision' photo competition

Calling all photographers!

13/04/2015 20056 views 85 likes

Last stretch before being packed tight

08/04/2015 5864 views 54 likes

Last look at Sentinel-2A

24/02/2015 10009 views 91 likes

Sentinel-2 practises laser spin

11/02/2015 5439 views 49 likes

Trial separation prepares for final release

30/10/2014 2368 views 37 likes

Signing the Agreement

Copernicus operations secured until 2021

28/10/2014 8249 views 62 likes

Sentinel toolbox

New toolboxes make using Sentinel data easy

30/09/2014 6711 views 39 likes

Sentinel-2A with solar wing

A wing for Sentinel-2A

01/09/2014 3725 views 45 likes

Bringing Sentinel-2 into focus

28/05/2014 3052 views 28 likes

Looking ahead to Sentinel-2

26/05/2014 2665 views 33 likes

Free access to Copernicus Sentinel satellite data

15/11/2013 63438 views 339 likes

Satellites to serve

13/09/2013 2886 views 21 likes

Gabon forest cover

Spotlight on Sentinel-2

04/05/2012 2339 views 2 likes

A mockup of the future Sentinel-2 mission

Earth from Space: The future of Earth observation

20/04/2012 2668 views 0 likes

Contract signing

Rockot to launch two Sentinel satellites

09/02/2012 1971 views 0 likes

Two GMES satellites to be launched on Europe’s new Vega roc…

16/12/2011 1324 views 0 likes

Monitoring changing landscapes

Getting ready for Sentinel-2

07/12/2011 905 views 0 likes

Sentinel-2 platform arrives

ESA’s Sentinel-2 shapes up for testing

30/11/2011 1386 views 0 likes

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