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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
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

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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

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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

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Assessing rice crops with Sentinel-1
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Sentinel-1 speeds up crop insurance payouts

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Widening gap
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Does loss lead to instability?

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Larsen C breaks
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Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg

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Desert locust outbreak
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Satellites forewarn of locust plagues

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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

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ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

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TimeScan product: Germany
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Urban monitoring boosted by new data processor

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Kaikoura quake
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Satellites shed new light on earthquakes

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Halloween Crack
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Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

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Aletsch Glacier
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Satellites monitor landslide in the Alps

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Wilkins Ice Shelf, 1994–2015
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Sharing Earth observation satellite data to help understand…

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Millennium Tower sinking
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Satellites confirm sinking of San Francisco tower

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Coast Guard aircraft
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Iceberg patrol gains faster updates from orbit

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East–west shift
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Sentinel satellites reveal east–west shift in Italian quake

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European seismic zones
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Keep an automatic eye on seismic zones

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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

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ESA’s Dragon cooperation with China extended to 2020

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Sentinel-1A and -1B combined
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Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision

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Space data give early warnings
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Monitoring pipelines from space

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Czech Agriculture from Space
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Sentinels in the fields

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Tracking every move
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Mapping that sinking feeling

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Flood map of Barguna, Bangladesh
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Sentinel-1 helping Cyclone Roanu relief

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

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Spotting geohazards with Sentinel-1
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Complex data made easy

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Living Planet 2016
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Spotlight on our living planet

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Sentinel-1B’s first image
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Sentinel-1B delivers

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Sentinel-1B spreads its wings

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Sentinel-1B launched to complete radar pair

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Soyuz VS14 in the mobile gantry
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Sentinel-1B launch coundown resumed

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Sentinel-1
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Sentinel-1B liftoff delayed another 24 hours

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Soyuz VS14 upper composite hoisted to the top of the service tower
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Sentinel-1B launch postponed

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Mission control
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Teams ready for Sentinel-1B launch

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