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

Polarstern

A year trapped in Arctic ice for climate science

24/09/2019 6555 views 121 likes

Sea ice

Using artificial intelligence to automate sea-ice charting

10/09/2019 6009 views 71 likes

Palu shifted

Using satellite information to help rebuild after a disaster

12/07/2019 7657 views 87 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 5264 views 60 likes

Permafrost thaw

Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

17/05/2019 10099 views 127 likes

Subsidence in Tuscany

Monitoring Earth’s shifting land

15/05/2019 7264 views 112 likes

Jakobshavn Glacier

Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

14/05/2019 12409 views 118 likes

Floods imaged by Copernicus Sentinel-1

Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps floods in wake of Idai

20/03/2019 14463 views 111 likes

Sentinels monitor converging ice cracks

14/03/2019 6336 views 84 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10707 views 89 likes

Volcanic uplift

Copernicus Sentinel-1 reveals shared plumbing led to Agung …

22/02/2019 7394 views 149 likes

InSAR Norway

Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps Norway in motion

10/01/2019 6846 views 92 likes

Floods near Jacksonville

Copernicus Sentinel maps Florence hurricane flood

15/09/2018 11411 views 100 likes

Sentinel-1 maps flash floods in Laos

30/07/2018 7954 views 63 likes

Jakobshavn Isbrae ice flow

It’s all go in summer for Greenland’s glaciers

13/07/2018 3752 views 52 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 6076 views 93 likes

Antarctica hikes up sea level

13/06/2018 10133 views 159 likes

Rohingya exodus

Sentinel-1 warns of refugee island flood risk

29/05/2018 5071 views 110 likes

Wheat harvest

Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 11957 views 95 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7529 views 101 likes

Examples of layers used for mapping

Sentinels helping to map minerals

20/03/2018 11556 views 154 likes

Full house for EDRS

13/03/2018 7297 views 103 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5273 views 111 likes

Coast Guard Cutter <i>Maple</i>

Satellites guide ships in icy waters through the cloud

07/11/2017 4733 views 49 likes

Wave height during Hurricane Irma

Sentinel-1 sees through hurricanes

25/10/2017 7744 views 116 likes

Secrets of hidden ice canyons revealed

11/10/2017 17728 views 147 likes

Assessing rice crops with Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1 speeds up crop insurance payouts

17/08/2017 14063 views 98 likes

Widening gap

Does loss lead to instability?

02/08/2017 5852 views 90 likes

Larsen C breaks

Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg

12/07/2017 26223 views 247 likes

Desert locust outbreak

Satellites forewarn of locust plagues

13/06/2017 11966 views 112 likes

Negribreen on the move

Negribreen on the move

12/05/2017 7722 views 78 likes

Satellites track Antarctic ice loss over decades

02/05/2017 8733 views 110 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7448 views 88 likes

TimeScan product: Germany

Urban monitoring boosted by new data processor

04/04/2017 7147 views 57 likes

Kaikoura quake

Satellites shed new light on earthquakes

24/03/2017 10795 views 135 likes

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 17515 views 185 likes

Aletsch Glacier

Satellites monitor landslide in the Alps

03/02/2017 6557 views 48 likes

Wilkins Ice Shelf, 1994–2015

Sharing Earth observation satellite data to help understand…

01/12/2016 4483 views 51 likes

Millennium Tower sinking

Satellites confirm sinking of San Francisco tower

25/11/2016 92019 views 370 likes

Coast Guard aircraft

Iceberg patrol gains faster updates from orbit

09/11/2016 7727 views 84 likes

East–west shift

Sentinel satellites reveal east–west shift in Italian quake

03/11/2016 10665 views 128 likes

European seismic zones

Keep an automatic eye on seismic zones

28/10/2016 9234 views 91 likes

Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space

Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle

31/08/2016 56831 views 340 likes

Ground displacement from Italy’s earthquake

Sentinel-1 provides new insight into Italy’s earthquake

29/08/2016 23016 views 148 likes

ESA’s Dragon cooperation with China extended to 2020

08/07/2016 7101 views 38 likes

Sentinel-1A and -1B combined

Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision

22/06/2016 16050 views 139 likes

Space data give early warnings

Monitoring pipelines from space

06/06/2016 13643 views 102 likes

Czech Agriculture from Space

Sentinels in the fields

01/06/2016 8761 views 69 likes

Tracking every move

Mapping that sinking feeling

01/06/2016 15860 views 155 likes

Flood map of Barguna, Bangladesh

Sentinel-1 helping Cyclone Roanu relief

26/05/2016 6626 views 59 likes

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