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    • Title Sentinel-1A radar deployment
    • Released 28/01/2014 1:19 pm
    • Copyright ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
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      Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 21 January 2014. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.

      The Synthetic Aperture Radar, or SAR, will provide an all-weather day-and-night supply of imagery for services such as the monitoring of Arctic sea-ice extent, routine sea-ice mapping, surveillance of the marine environment, monitoring land-surface for motion risks and mapping to support humanitarian aid and crisis situations.

      Sentinel-1A – the first satellite built for the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme – is foreseen for launch in the spring of 2014 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

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    • Activity Observing the Earth
    • Mission Sentinel-1
    • People Engineers (non ESA)
    • Location Cannes
    • Action Testing, Deploying
    • Keywords Testing, Antenna, Satellite antenna

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