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
10+ years in orbit

Sentinel-1

10 remarkable Earth facts

18/04/2023 600995 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 5721 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 42979 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

George VI Ice Shelf

Seasonal changes in Antarctic ice sheet flow dynamics detec…

12/10/2022 7119 views 108 likes

Nord Stream leak as captured by Pléiades Neo

Satellites detect methane plume in Nord Stream leak

06/10/2022 19619 views 128 likes

Harmony

ESA selects Harmony as tenth Earth Explorer mission

22/09/2022 16048 views 120 likes

Soil moisture June 2022 northern Italy

Zooming in on drought from space

21/09/2022 4598 views 80 likes

Sentinel-1

Mission ends for Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite

03/08/2022 37382 views 123 likes

Etna’s uplift and subsidence

Tap into Europe in motion

26/07/2022 7367 views 113 likes

Oil palm plantations distribution

Tracking agricultural-related deforestation

05/05/2022 7780 views 77 likes

Radar vision

Ride into orbit secured for Sentinel-1C

08/04/2022 30711 views 101 likes

Highlighting crops with Agriculture Sandbox NL

Monitoring crop health across the Netherlands

08/02/2022 8140 views 115 likes

A-68A’s position on 17 December

Mega iceberg released 152 billion tonnes of freshwater

20/01/2022 11793 views 82 likes

Bangkok, Thailand

Mapping our human footprint from space

11/11/2021 23283 views 89 likes

Satellites pinpoint communities at risk of permafrost thaw

09/11/2021 5589 views 101 likes

Antarctica

Antarctic glacier named Glasgow to mark COP26

31/10/2021 4621 views 82 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-1A: seven years in operation

First Copernicus satellite exceeds design working life

04/10/2021 4798 views 57 likes

Glacier avalanches in the Sedongpu region, China

Glacier avalanches more common than thought

30/04/2021 6366 views 123 likes

Annual mean shoreline change: Start Bay, Devon

Measuring shoreline retreat

29/03/2021 9680 views 152 likes

Above ground biomass

Maps to improve forest biomass estimates

17/03/2021 10906 views 102 likes

Getz glaciers flowing faster

Getz on the run

23/02/2021 4689 views 90 likes

Satellite radar interferometry effective for mapping crops

Satellite radar interferometry effective for mapping crops

19/02/2021 9777 views 94 likes

New crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf

Is Brunt on the brink?

12/02/2021 8243 views 95 likes

A-68A and A-68G

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

03/02/2021 20670 views 102 likes

Wetlands

Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

02/02/2021 6551 views 89 likes

Optimising agriculture

Cloud-free crop maps foster sustainable farming

25/01/2021 7848 views 58 likes

Earth is losing ice at record rate

Our world is losing ice at record rate

25/01/2021 18572 views 141 likes

Start of Vendée Globe 2020

Copernicus satellites keep eyes on icebergs for Vendée Globe

02/12/2020 5254 views 51 likes

Sentinel data enables new system for agricultural monitorin…

12/11/2020 5324 views 35 likes

Surface deformation across Germany

Germany land motion mapped

03/11/2020 7961 views 61 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-1C radar antenna deployed

Europe’s next radar Sentinel unfolds

07/08/2020 5379 views 51 likes

Satellites provide data on crops

Satellites provide crucial data on crops during COVID-19

06/08/2020 5723 views 82 likes

Mapping the Oaxaca earthquake from space

23/07/2020 5066 views 83 likes

A-68A in open waters

Giant A-68 iceberg three years on

10/07/2020 20359 views 142 likes

Kilauea eruption 2018

Can rain trigger a volcanic eruption?

30/04/2020 12864 views 85 likes

Polarstern shrouded in darkness

Shedding light in the dark: radar satellites lead the way

16/12/2019 7299 views 74 likes

French earthquake interferogram

French earthquake fault mapped

17/11/2019 12784 views 99 likes

Floods northeast of Tokyo captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1

Tracking Typhoon Hagibis from space

29/10/2019 7236 views 66 likes

Cracked: Pine Island Glacier

Emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier

18/10/2019 10236 views 90 likes

Polarstern

A year trapped in Arctic ice for climate science

24/09/2019 6642 views 121 likes

Sea ice

Using artificial intelligence to automate sea-ice charting

10/09/2019 6110 views 71 likes

Palu shifted

Using satellite information to help rebuild after a disaster

12/07/2019 7767 views 87 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 5478 views 60 likes

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