ESA - Sentinel-3 - Archive

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The mission

Carrying a suite of cutting-edge instruments, Copernicus Sentinel-3 measures systematically Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale global dynamics. It provides essential information in near-real time for ocean and weather forecasting.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-3A on 16 February 2016
Sentinel-3B on 25 April 2018
Site: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
Launcher: Rockot

4 instruments
7 years mission life
815 km orbit altitude

Sentinel-3

Baltic Sea from Copernicus Sentinel-3

New satellite data techniques reveal coastal sea-level rise

07/07/2021 15535 views 112 likes

Ocean acidification

Satellites highlight a 30-year rise in ocean acidification

21/04/2021 7721 views 91 likes

Mount Etna smoke plumes

Satellites monitor Mount Etna’s unpredictable behaviour

08/04/2021 16163 views 101 likes

A-68A and A-68G

Is this the end of the A-68A iceberg?

03/02/2021 20279 views 102 likes

Wetlands

Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

02/02/2021 6050 views 87 likes

Area burned by fire in August 2019

New long-term dataset to analyse global fire trends

26/01/2021 7157 views 68 likes

A-68A iceberg loses chunk of ice

Giant A-68A iceberg loses chunk of ice

18/12/2020 11154 views 126 likes

Start of Vendée Globe 2020

Copernicus satellites keep eyes on icebergs for Vendée Globe

02/12/2020 4959 views 51 likes

Between fire and hurricane

US West Coast on fire

18/09/2020 7657 views 84 likes

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide fuel our warming climate

Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%

16/09/2020 3628 views 48 likes

Captured on 11 August by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, this image shows Eureka in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

Monitoring the Arctic heatwave

27/08/2020 6915 views 115 likes

Working on Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Building satellites amid COVID-19

04/05/2020 4287 views 53 likes

Burned area near Chernobyl site

Mapping Chernobyl fires from space

16/04/2020 18173 views 90 likes

Water management key for sustainable agriculture

Satellites and machine learning for water management

09/04/2020 9953 views 86 likes

Smoke over New South Wales, Australia, from Copernicus Sentinel-3

Australia: like a furnace

09/01/2020 14363 views 139 likes

Fires around the world

Is Earth on fire?

25/10/2019 22303 views 106 likes

Sea roughness key to carbon flux

Can oceans turn the tide on the climate crisis?

08/10/2019 11400 views 217 likes

Wildfires in Brazil

Fires ravage the Amazon

27/08/2019 16202 views 145 likes

Sargassum in Guadeloupe

Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

30/07/2019 12405 views 126 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 4618 views 60 likes

Greenland snow grain and albedo

Snow grain size – it matters

29/05/2019 6459 views 88 likes

Floods imaged by Copernicus Sentinel-1

Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps floods in wake of Idai

20/03/2019 13425 views 110 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10307 views 89 likes

Losing ice

Greenland ice loss quickening

06/12/2018 8037 views 131 likes

Regional sea-level trends

Spotlight on sea-level rise

25/09/2018 14742 views 96 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 5846 views 93 likes

Tandem in images

Sentinel-3 flies tandem

19/06/2018 8711 views 108 likes

Antarctic sunset from Sentinel-3B

Copernicus Sentinel-3B delivers first images

09/05/2018 22798 views 153 likes

Seventh Sentinel satellite launched for Copernicus

25/04/2018 11666 views 86 likes

Enabling & Support

ESA teams ready for space

24/04/2018 4441 views 60 likes

Into the tower

Sentinel-3B on launch pad

23/04/2018 8530 views 76 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-3B

Sentinel-3B fully tanked

13/04/2018 2781 views 36 likes

Unveiling Sentinel-3B

Sentinel-3B launch preparations in full swing

23/03/2018 7211 views 65 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7234 views 101 likes

Sentinel-3B launch event

Join us for #Sentinel3 launch

21/03/2018 10716 views 72 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5136 views 111 likes

Sentinel-3B tested

Sentinel-3B good to go

02/02/2018 5248 views 39 likes

Sentinel-3 competition winning slogan

Sentinel-3 drawing competition winners announced

19/12/2017 891 views 1 likes

Sentinel-3A sees the effects of spring

See our seasons change from space

06/07/2017 9813 views 90 likes

Pomezia blaze

Pandora measures fire fumes over Rome

28/06/2017 3608 views 55 likes

Desert locust outbreak

Satellites forewarn of locust plagues

13/06/2017 11542 views 111 likes

Into the chamber

The heat is on for Sentinel-3B

01/06/2017 5559 views 69 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7173 views 87 likes

Greenland changing ice

Sentinel-3A Earth colour data released

20/10/2016 11218 views 69 likes

Living in the twilight zone

Satellites help understand what fuels the twilight zone

27/09/2016 5032 views 69 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-3

Europe’s workhorse Sentinel ready for action

13/07/2016 8011 views 80 likes

Estonia

Estonia’s first contract with ESA focuses on ocean health

07/06/2016 3796 views 39 likes

Fort McMurray wildfires

Canadian fires tracked by satellites

19/05/2016 19689 views 60 likes

Thermal signature of Namibian coastline

Sentinel-3A feels the heat

06/04/2016 14406 views 100 likes

Islands in red

Sentinel-3A continues to impress

08/03/2016 12879 views 94 likes

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