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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 mission ended for Sentinel-1B in 2022.

The launch

  • Date: Sentinel-1A - 03 April 2014 
              Sentinel-1B - 25 April 2016 
              Sentinel-1C - 2024 
  • Site: Kourou, French Guiana
  • Rocket: Sentinel-1A and -B on Soyuz 
                  Sentinel-1C on Vega-C 
Sentinel-1
Kilauea eruption 2018
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Can rain trigger a volcanic eruption?

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Polarstern shrouded in darkness
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Shedding light in the dark: radar satellites lead the way

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French earthquake interferogram
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French earthquake fault mapped

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Floods northeast of Tokyo captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1
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Tracking Typhoon Hagibis from space

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Cracked: Pine Island Glacier
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Emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier

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Polarstern
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A year trapped in Arctic ice for climate science

24/09/2019 6235 views 121 likes
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Sea ice
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Using artificial intelligence to automate sea-ice charting

10/09/2019 5472 views 71 likes
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Palu shifted
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Using satellite information to help rebuild after a disaster

12/07/2019 7094 views 87 likes
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Ice streams named
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Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

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Permafrost thaw
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Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

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Subsidence in Tuscany
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Monitoring Earth’s shifting land

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Jakobshavn Glacier
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Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

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Floods imaged by Copernicus Sentinel-1
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Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps floods in wake of Idai

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Sentinels monitor converging ice cracks

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Cloud-free Europe
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New observations for the new economy

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Volcanic uplift
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Copernicus Sentinel-1 reveals shared plumbing led to Agung …

22/02/2019 7199 views 149 likes
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InSAR Norway
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Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps Norway in motion

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Floods near Jacksonville
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Copernicus Sentinel maps Florence hurricane flood

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Sentinel-1 maps flash floods in Laos

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Jakobshavn Isbrae ice flow
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It’s all go in summer for Greenland’s glaciers

13/07/2018 3547 views 50 likes
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Lake Maggiore and Baveno
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Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 5778 views 92 likes
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Antarctica hikes up sea level

13/06/2018 9700 views 158 likes
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Rohingya exodus
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Sentinel-1 warns of refugee island flood risk

29/05/2018 4845 views 109 likes
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Wheat harvest
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Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 11392 views 94 likes
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Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

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Examples of layers used for mapping
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Sentinels helping to map minerals

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Full house for EDRS

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Arriving in South Georgia
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Voyaging for the Sentinels

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Coast Guard Cutter <i>Maple</i>
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Satellites guide ships in icy waters through the cloud

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Wave height during Hurricane Irma
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Sentinel-1 sees through hurricanes

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Secrets of hidden ice canyons revealed

11/10/2017 17102 views 147 likes
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Assessing rice crops with Sentinel-1
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Sentinel-1 speeds up crop insurance payouts

17/08/2017 13460 views 96 likes
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Widening gap
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Does loss lead to instability?

02/08/2017 5664 views 90 likes
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Larsen C breaks
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Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg

12/07/2017 25683 views 247 likes
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Desert locust outbreak
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Satellites forewarn of locust plagues

13/06/2017 11403 views 111 likes
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Negribreen on the move
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Negribreen on the move

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Satellites track Antarctic ice loss over decades

02/05/2017 8527 views 110 likes
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ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7084 views 87 likes
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TimeScan product: Germany
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Urban monitoring boosted by new data processor

04/04/2017 6880 views 56 likes
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Kaikoura quake
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Satellites shed new light on earthquakes

24/03/2017 10446 views 135 likes
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Halloween Crack
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Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 15272 views 184 likes
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Aletsch Glacier
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Satellites monitor landslide in the Alps

03/02/2017 6027 views 48 likes
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Wilkins Ice Shelf, 1994–2015
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Sharing Earth observation satellite data to help understand…

01/12/2016 4280 views 51 likes
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Millennium Tower sinking
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Satellites confirm sinking of San Francisco tower

25/11/2016 90903 views 368 likes
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Coast Guard aircraft
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Iceberg patrol gains faster updates from orbit

09/11/2016 7382 views 84 likes
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East–west shift
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Sentinel satellites reveal east–west shift in Italian quake

03/11/2016 10415 views 128 likes
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European seismic zones
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Keep an automatic eye on seismic zones

28/10/2016 8889 views 91 likes
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Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space
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Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle

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Ground displacement from Italy’s earthquake
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Sentinel-1 provides new insight into Italy’s earthquake

29/08/2016 22157 views 147 likes
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ESA’s Dragon cooperation with China extended to 2020

08/07/2016 6831 views 38 likes
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