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The mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is designed as a two-satellite constellation. Each satellite carries an advanced radar instrument to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-1A - 03 April 2014
Sentinel-1B - 25 April 2016
Sentinel-1C - 5 December 2024
Sentinel-1D - 4 November 2025
Site: Europe's Spaceport, French Guiana
Rocket: Sentinel-1A and -B on Soyuz
Sentinel-1C on Vega-C
Sentinel-1D on Ariane 6

1st in the Sentinel series
693 km orbit altitude
10+ years in orbit

Sentinel-1

Medicane Jolina from MSG

Getting to the core of a medicane

27/03/2026 2849 views 33 likes

Grounding line retreat on West Antarctica, 1992-2025

Antarctica retreat study signals future ice loss

03/03/2026 3547 views 56 likes

Yellow River Delta, China

River deltas are sinking faster than the sea is rising

17/02/2026 2447 views 51 likes

Flooding around the Tejo River, Portugal, by Sentinel-1

Intense rainfall brings floods across Iberian Peninsula

10/02/2026 12283 views 92 likes

Tibetan Plateau vertical ground displacement

New satellite view of Tibet’s tectonic clash

30/01/2026 11438 views 75 likes

Ice velocity on Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, 2014–2024

Sentinel-1's decade of essential data over shifting ice she…

07/01/2026 5243 views 40 likes

Bremen by Sentinel-1D

Sentinel-1D delivers first images: from Antarctica to Bremen

26/11/2025 27479 views 60 likes

Sentinel-1D lifts off on Ariane 6

Sentinel-1D reaches orbit on Ariane 6

04/11/2025 12886 views 46 likes

Sentinel-1D about to meet rocket

Sentinel-1D and Ariane 6 ready for liftoff

03/11/2025 6104 views 16 likes

Sentinel-1C interferogram of northern Chile

Sentinel-1 mission… did you know?

03/11/2025 2426 views 35 likes

Ariane 6 fairing release revealing Sentinel-1D

Watch live: Sentinel-1D launch on Ariane 6

28/10/2025 21636 views 139 likes

Sentinel-1D fuelled in Kourou

Sentinel-1D fuelled and ready for encapsulation

20/10/2025 2258 views 41 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-1D team in Kourou

Sentinel-1D preparations underway in Kourou

08/10/2025 2681 views 32 likes

Simulations ongoing for Sentinel-1D

Enabling & Support

“We know the drill”: Sentinel-1D begins streamlined simulat…

16/09/2025 1247 views 19 likes

Unloading Sentinel-1D

Sentinel-1D in French Guiana for launch campaign

11/09/2025 4763 views 35 likes

Harder Glacier, northern Greenland

Greenland subglacial flood bursts through ice sheet surface

30/07/2025 6703 views 42 likes

Fire driving deforestation

Satellite records expose fire driving Gran Chaco transforma…

26/06/2025 2839 views 37 likes

Dotson Ice Shelf from Sentinel-1

Antarctic glacier caught stealing ice from neighbour

08/05/2025 18964 views 56 likes

Sentinel-1 interferogram of Myanmar earthquake

Sentinel-1 captures ground shift from Myanmar earthquake

24/04/2025 8629 views 59 likes

Nord Stream pipe lines

Nord Stream methane leak far bigger than estimated

05/03/2025 7406 views 47 likes

Sentinel-1C interferogram of northern Chile

Sentinel-1C demonstrates power to map land deformation

13/02/2025 9581 views 107 likes

The Sentinel-1 mission

Ariane 6 to take Sentinel-1D into orbit

28/01/2025 5377 views 31 likes

The Netherlands from Sentinel-1C

Sentinel-1C captures first radar images

10/12/2024 27747 views 157 likes

Vega-C lifts off with Sentinel-1C

Double win for Europe: Sentinel-1C and Vega-C take to the s…

06/12/2024 12739 views 68 likes

Vega-C with Sentinel-1C on the launch pad

Enabling & Support

Vega-C complete for return to flight

04/12/2024 4392 views 31 likes

Artist's impression of Copernicus Sentinel-1C in its Vega-C launcher

Watch live: Vega-C to launch Sentinel-1C

29/11/2024 30631 views 47 likes

Sentinel-1C ready for encapsulation in Vega-C's fairing

10 ways Sentinel-1 data lets us ‘see’ our world

27/11/2024 4766 views 41 likes

Kronebreen glacier seen from above

Space for Shore: Sentinel-1 reveals Arctic glacier retreat

19/11/2024 3471 views 56 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-1C

Sentinel-1C fuelled ahead of liftoff

18/11/2024 3352 views 39 likes

Unloading Sentinel-1C

Sentinel-1C arrives in French Guiana

09/10/2024 8718 views 62 likes

Final data captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite

Sentinel-1B journeys back to Earth

23/09/2024 5708 views 61 likes

Map reveals fishing activity not publicly tracked around Portugal and Morocco

Sentinel-1 and AI reveal 75% of fishing vessels not tracked

24/01/2024 7488 views 33 likes

Cadman Ice Shelf 2023 compared to 2017

Warming ocean causing rapid glacier retreat

28/11/2023 5046 views 104 likes

Icebergs in the Amundsen Sea, off the west coast of Antarctica

AI maps icebergs 10,000 times faster than humans

09/11/2023 13866 views 111 likes

Antarctic ice shelf melt

Antarctic ice shelf demise

13/10/2023 22391 views 118 likes

Morocco earthquake fringes

Sentinel-1 reveals shifts from Morocco earthquake

14/09/2023 14215 views 106 likes

Adelie penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctica vulnerable to extreme events

08/08/2023 7023 views 112 likes

Faenza flood map

Satellites map aftermath of Emilia-Romagna floods

20/07/2023 13423 views 87 likes

Al Wahat al Dakhla Desert, Egypt

Introducing World Cereal

20/04/2023 8170 views 91 likes

Irrigation Ebro River basin

How much water do we use for irrigation?

19/04/2023 5878 views 71 likes

10 remarkable Earth facts

18/04/2023 601031 views 2795 likes

Forest loss across the Amazon

Using a data cube to monitor forest loss in the Amazon

07/03/2023 8273 views 107 likes

Antarctic Peninsula glacier flow

Antarctic Peninsula glaciers on the run

27/02/2023 11982 views 93 likes

History of landslides and road network in southern Italy

Satellite data used for road infrastructure safety in Italy

16/02/2023 5722 views 63 likes

Osmaniye City, Türkiye, captured by Pléiades Neo

Satellites support impact assessment after Türkiye–Syria ea…

13/02/2023 17905 views 121 likes

Sentinel-1C solar wing deployed

Europe’s next radar satellite tip-top for flight

07/02/2023 4786 views 55 likes

Sentinel-2 captures Antarctica’s new iceberg

Giant iceberg breaks away from Antarctic ice shelf

25/01/2023 42984 views 174 likes

Thwaites Glacier

Sentinel-1 and AI uncover glacier crevasses

09/01/2023 8359 views 74 likes

RRS James Clark Ross research ship and William Glacier

Glacier calving and a whole lot of mixing

29/11/2022 8541 views 73 likes

Sentinel-1C in Cannes

From Rome to Cannes

25/10/2022 3944 views 57 likes

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