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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 - 5 December 2024 
              Sentinel-1D - second half of 2025
  • Site: Kourou, French Guiana
  • Rocket: Sentinel-1A and -B on Soyuz 
                  Sentinel-1C on Vega-C 
                  Sentinel-1D on Ariane 6
Sentinel-1

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Harder Glacier, northern Greenland
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Fire driving deforestation
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Satellite records expose fire driving Gran Chaco transforma…

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Dotson Ice Shelf from Sentinel-1
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Antarctic glacier caught stealing ice from neighbour

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Sentinel-1 interferogram of Myanmar earthquake
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Sentinel-1 captures ground shift from Myanmar earthquake

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Nord Stream pipe lines
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Nord Stream methane leak far bigger than estimated

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    Sentinel-1 documents and publications

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