ESA - Sentinel-1 - Archive

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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
7 years mission life

Sentinel-1

Examples of layers used for mapping

Sentinels helping to map minerals

20/03/2018 11538 views 154 likes

Full house for EDRS

13/03/2018 7292 views 103 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5272 views 111 likes

Coast Guard Cutter <i>Maple</i>

Satellites guide ships in icy waters through the cloud

07/11/2017 4722 views 49 likes

Wave height during Hurricane Irma

Sentinel-1 sees through hurricanes

25/10/2017 7741 views 116 likes

Secrets of hidden ice canyons revealed

11/10/2017 17719 views 147 likes

Assessing rice crops with Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1 speeds up crop insurance payouts

17/08/2017 14057 views 98 likes

Widening gap

Does loss lead to instability?

02/08/2017 5850 views 90 likes

Larsen C breaks

Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg

12/07/2017 26211 views 247 likes

Desert locust outbreak

Satellites forewarn of locust plagues

13/06/2017 11958 views 112 likes

Negribreen on the move

Negribreen on the move

12/05/2017 7713 views 78 likes

Satellites track Antarctic ice loss over decades

02/05/2017 8723 views 110 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7443 views 88 likes

TimeScan product: Germany

Urban monitoring boosted by new data processor

04/04/2017 7144 views 57 likes

Kaikoura quake

Satellites shed new light on earthquakes

24/03/2017 10792 views 135 likes

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 17500 views 185 likes

Aletsch Glacier

Satellites monitor landslide in the Alps

03/02/2017 6546 views 48 likes

Wilkins Ice Shelf, 1994–2015

Sharing Earth observation satellite data to help understand…

01/12/2016 4482 views 51 likes

Millennium Tower sinking

Satellites confirm sinking of San Francisco tower

25/11/2016 92003 views 370 likes

Coast Guard aircraft

Iceberg patrol gains faster updates from orbit

09/11/2016 7722 views 84 likes

East–west shift

Sentinel satellites reveal east–west shift in Italian quake

03/11/2016 10661 views 128 likes

European seismic zones

Keep an automatic eye on seismic zones

28/10/2016 9227 views 91 likes

Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space

Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle

31/08/2016 56805 views 340 likes

Ground displacement from Italy’s earthquake

Sentinel-1 provides new insight into Italy’s earthquake

29/08/2016 23005 views 148 likes

ESA’s Dragon cooperation with China extended to 2020

08/07/2016 7096 views 38 likes

Sentinel-1A and -1B combined

Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision

22/06/2016 16039 views 139 likes

Space data give early warnings

Monitoring pipelines from space

06/06/2016 13634 views 102 likes

Czech Agriculture from Space

Sentinels in the fields

01/06/2016 8754 views 69 likes

Tracking every move

Mapping that sinking feeling

01/06/2016 15856 views 155 likes

Flood map of Barguna, Bangladesh

Sentinel-1 helping Cyclone Roanu relief

26/05/2016 6622 views 59 likes

Sentinel-1A detects slick

Sentinel-1A spots potential oil slick from missing EgyptAir…

20/05/2016 30634 views 184 likes

Spotting geohazards with Sentinel-1

Complex data made easy

12/05/2016 4410 views 39 likes

Living Planet 2016

Spotlight on our living planet

09/05/2016 4413 views 50 likes

Sentinel-1B’s first image

Sentinel-1B delivers

28/04/2016 19199 views 137 likes

Sentinel-1B spreads its wings

27/04/2016 8062 views 134 likes

Sentinel-1B launched to complete radar pair

25/04/2016 18984 views 104 likes

Soyuz VS14 in the mobile gantry

Sentinel-1B launch coundown resumed

25/04/2016 18290 views 156 likes

Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1B liftoff delayed another 24 hours

23/04/2016 8315 views 65 likes

Soyuz VS14 upper composite hoisted to the top of the service tower

Sentinel-1B launch postponed

22/04/2016 8605 views 89 likes

Mission control

Enabling & Support

Teams ready for Sentinel-1B launch

21/04/2016 4947 views 43 likes

Fishing in the Mediterranean

Sentinel-1 counts fish

21/04/2016 10930 views 81 likes

Sentinel-1B heads to launch tower

Sentinel-1B in position for liftoff

20/04/2016 5244 views 76 likes

Sentinel-1B launch event at ESRIN

20/04/2016 6016 views 53 likes

Watch live: Sentinel-1B launch

20/04/2016 65143 views 328 likes

Going to space

Enabling & Support

Training beyond the expected

19/04/2016 3447 views 54 likes

Sentinel-1 sees rice paddy drop in the Mekong Delta

18/04/2016 11631 views 82 likes

Birth of two icebergs

Nansen gives birth to two icebergs

14/04/2016 11780 views 103 likes

Riding Soyuz

Hitching a ride with Sentinel-1B

12/04/2016 4394 views 59 likes

Sentinel-1B arrives in Cayenne

Preparing for more radar vision

10/03/2016 3882 views 45 likes

Landslides threaten transport networks

Keeping transport systems on track

29/02/2016 4446 views 52 likes

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