ESA - Sentinel-2 - Archive

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The mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission is based on a constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit. Each satellite carries an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-2A - 23 June 2015
Sentinel-2B - 7 March 2017
Sentinel-2C - 5 September 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Launcher: Vega rocket

10 m resolution
13 spectral bands
290 km swath
5-day revisit time

Sentinel-2

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7675 views 88 likes

Mapping African land cover

Improving land cover mapping with Sentinel-2

24/03/2017 11047 views 95 likes

Sun glitter

Glitter helps to monitor ocean waves

20/03/2017 7230 views 87 likes

Brindisi, Italy

A ‘toast’ to Copernicus Sentinel-2B as it delivers its firs…

15/03/2017 17838 views 151 likes

Mission control room

Enabling & Support

Orbiting in sunshine

09/03/2017 7634 views 100 likes

Second ‘colour vision’ satellite for Copernicus launched

07/03/2017 17675 views 131 likes

Sentinel-2: high-resolution and multispectral

Enabling & Support

Dressed to thrill

03/03/2017 5504 views 62 likes

Watch live: Sentinel-2B launch

03/03/2017 14181 views 91 likes

#Sentinel2Go launch event at ESOC

03/03/2017 12888 views 61 likes

Sentinel-2B in launch tower

Sentinel-2B poised for liftoff

02/03/2017 6792 views 75 likes

Vega VV09 upper composite transferred to launcher assembly area

Call for Media: launch of Sentinel-2B satellite for Coperni…

28/02/2017 1298 views 2 likes

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 17877 views 185 likes

Sentinel-2 brings land into focus

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 teams prepare for space

16/02/2017 7955 views 62 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-2B

Fuel Sentinel-2B: done

16/02/2017 4583 views 54 likes

BASF agriculture test site

Farmers to benefit from ESA–BASF collaboration

10/02/2017 4861 views 61 likes

Revealing Sentinel-2B

Sentinel-2B launch preparations off to a flying start

12/01/2017 9895 views 86 likes

Sentinel-2B satellite at ESA’s site in the Netherlands

Farewell to Sentinel-2B

15/11/2016 7216 views 85 likes

Living in the twilight zone

Satellites help understand what fuels the twilight zone

27/09/2016 5638 views 69 likes

Sentinel-2B in vacuum chamber

Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B

18/07/2016 6362 views 83 likes

Detecting coral bleaching

Looking out for coral bleaching

01/07/2016 4013 views 56 likes

Estonia

Estonia’s first contract with ESA focuses on ocean health

07/06/2016 3987 views 39 likes

Czech Agriculture from Space

Sentinels in the fields

01/06/2016 9064 views 70 likes

Catching sun glitter

Sun glitter reveals coastal waves

19/05/2016 9403 views 75 likes

Living Planet 2016

Spotlight on our living planet

09/05/2016 4514 views 50 likes

Birth of two icebergs

Nansen gives birth to two icebergs

14/04/2016 11968 views 103 likes

Fatu Huku

World’s corals under threat

24/02/2016 6991 views 72 likes

Satellites used to guide farming

Farmers benefit from satellite coverage

02/12/2015 14190 views 98 likes

Ban Ki-moon and Volker Liebig

My Planet from Space exhibition draws special visitor

09/09/2015 2375 views 33 likes

Eye of an algal storm

Sentinel-2 catches eye of algal storm

04/09/2015 39093 views 128 likes

Chasing glacier retreat

Chasing ice

21/08/2015 15114 views 119 likes

Red Sea reefs

Help wanted on tracking biodiversity from space

12/08/2015 7690 views 59 likes

Danube River

Sentinels catch traffic jam

07/08/2015 15814 views 80 likes

Agriculture in Saudi Arabia

First applications from Sentinel-2A

27/07/2015 22349 views 85 likes

Sentinel-2 kids’ competition winner

Student wins Sentinel-2 drawing competition

02/07/2015 5519 views 6 likes

Northwest Italy and southern France from Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 delivers first images

29/06/2015 56272 views 176 likes

Sentinel-2A completes critical first days in space

26/06/2015 7752 views 73 likes

Second Copernicus environmental satellite safely in orbit

23/06/2015 19598 views 108 likes

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 launch timeline

19/06/2015 11159 views 37 likes

Vega VV05 in its mobile gantry

Sentinel-2A poised high

17/06/2015 5680 views 54 likes

Turbidity at the mouth of the Elbe

Worldwide water quality app hits the web

16/06/2015 9298 views 60 likes

Encapsulation begins

Sentinel-2A sealed from view

09/06/2015 5593 views 44 likes

Sentinel-2A in Kourou

New launch date set for Sentinel-2A

04/06/2015 9826 views 64 likes

Big bird arrives

Preparing to launch ‘colour vision’ satellite

23/04/2015 9209 views 74 likes

'Colour vision' photo competition

Calling all photographers!

13/04/2015 20429 views 85 likes

Last stretch before being packed tight

08/04/2015 6193 views 54 likes

Last look at Sentinel-2A

24/02/2015 10719 views 91 likes

Sentinel-2 practises laser spin

11/02/2015 6098 views 49 likes

Trial separation prepares for final release

30/10/2014 2577 views 37 likes

Signing the Agreement

Copernicus operations secured until 2021

28/10/2014 8713 views 62 likes

Sentinel toolbox

New toolboxes make using Sentinel data easy

30/09/2014 7115 views 39 likes

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