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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
Sentinel-1
Oil palm plantations distribution
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Tracking agricultural-related deforestation

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Radar vision
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Ride into orbit secured for Sentinel-1C

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Highlighting crops with Agriculture Sandbox NL
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Monitoring crop health across the Netherlands

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A-68A’s position on 17 December
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Mega iceberg released 152 billion tonnes of freshwater

20/01/2022 11680 views 82 likes
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Bangkok, Thailand
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Mapping our human footprint from space

11/11/2021 22652 views 88 likes
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Satellites pinpoint communities at risk of permafrost thaw

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Antarctica
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Antarctic glacier named Glasgow to mark COP26

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Copernicus Sentinel-1A: seven years in operation
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First Copernicus satellite exceeds design working life

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Glacier avalanches in the Sedongpu region, China
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Glacier avalanches more common than thought

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Annual mean shoreline change: Start Bay, Devon
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Measuring shoreline retreat

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Above ground biomass
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Maps to improve forest biomass estimates

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Getz glaciers flowing faster
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Getz on the run

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Satellite radar interferometry effective for mapping crops
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Satellite radar interferometry effective for mapping crops

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New crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf
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Is Brunt on the brink?

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

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Wetlands
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Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

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Optimising agriculture
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Cloud-free crop maps foster sustainable farming

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Earth is losing ice at record rate
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Our world is losing ice at record rate

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Start of Vendée Globe 2020
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Copernicus satellites keep eyes on icebergs for Vendée Globe

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Sentinel data enables new system for agricultural monitorin…

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Surface deformation across Germany
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Germany land motion mapped

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Copernicus Sentinel-1C radar antenna deployed
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Europe’s next radar Sentinel unfolds

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Satellites provide data on crops
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Satellites provide crucial data on crops during COVID-19

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Mapping the Oaxaca earthquake from space

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A-68A in open waters
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Giant A-68 iceberg three years on

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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

18/10/2019 10097 views 90 likes
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Polarstern
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A year trapped in Arctic ice for climate science

24/09/2019 6545 views 121 likes
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Sea ice
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Using artificial intelligence to automate sea-ice charting

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Palu shifted
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Using satellite information to help rebuild after a disaster

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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 …

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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 3747 views 52 likes
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Lake Maggiore and Baveno
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Copernicus 20 years on

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Antarctica hikes up sea level

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Rohingya exodus
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Sentinel-1 warns of refugee island flood risk

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Wheat harvest
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Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 11942 views 95 likes
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Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7526 views 101 likes
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