ESA - Sentinel-3 - Archive

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The mission

Carrying a suite of cutting-edge instruments, Copernicus Sentinel-3 measures systematically Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere to monitor and understand large-scale global dynamics. It provides essential information in near-real time for ocean and weather forecasting.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-3A on 16 February 2016
Sentinel-3B on 25 April 2018
Sentinel-3C in 2026
Site: Sentinel-3A and -B from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
Sentinel-3C from Europe's Spaceport, French Guiana
Launcher: Sentinel-3A and -B on Rockot
Sentinel-3C on Vega-C

4 instruments
7 years mission life
815 km orbit altitude

Sentinel-3

Worldwide fires from ESA’s World Fire Atlas

Counting wildfires across the globe

03/08/2023 40469 views 105 likes

Heatwave across Europe

Europe braces for sweltering July

13/07/2023 109445 views 213 likes

Sea-surface temperature January to mid-May 2023

Our oceans are in hot water

17/05/2023 10826 views 107 likes

France and Spain land-surface temperature

Feeling the heat from space

20/07/2022 13948 views 139 likes

Greenland ice sheet melt

Historic Greenland ice sheet rainfall unravelled

25/05/2022 8252 views 113 likes

A-68A’s position on 17 December

Mega iceberg released 152 billion tonnes of freshwater

20/01/2022 11682 views 82 likes

Baltic Sea from Copernicus Sentinel-3

New satellite data techniques reveal coastal sea-level rise

07/07/2021 16092 views 112 likes

Ocean acidification

Satellites highlight a 30-year rise in ocean acidification

21/04/2021 8490 views 92 likes

Mount Etna smoke plumes

Satellites monitor Mount Etna’s unpredictable behaviour

08/04/2021 18363 views 102 likes

A-68A and A-68G

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

03/02/2021 20577 views 102 likes

Wetlands

Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

02/02/2021 6460 views 89 likes

Area burned by fire in August 2019

New long-term dataset to analyse global fire trends

26/01/2021 7589 views 70 likes

A-68A iceberg loses chunk of ice

Giant A-68A iceberg loses chunk of ice

18/12/2020 11584 views 127 likes

Start of Vendée Globe 2020

Copernicus satellites keep eyes on icebergs for Vendée Globe

02/12/2020 5206 views 51 likes

Between fire and hurricane

US West Coast on fire

18/09/2020 8472 views 84 likes

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide fuel our warming climate

Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%

16/09/2020 3806 views 48 likes

Captured on 11 August by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission, this image shows Eureka in the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

Monitoring the Arctic heatwave

27/08/2020 7176 views 115 likes

Working on Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich

Building satellites amid COVID-19

04/05/2020 4447 views 53 likes

Burned area near Chernobyl site

Mapping Chernobyl fires from space

16/04/2020 19786 views 90 likes

Water management key for sustainable agriculture

Satellites and machine learning for water management

09/04/2020 10713 views 87 likes

Smoke over New South Wales, Australia, from Copernicus Sentinel-3

Australia: like a furnace

09/01/2020 14662 views 140 likes

Fires around the world

Is Earth on fire?

25/10/2019 24087 views 110 likes

Sea roughness key to carbon flux

Can oceans turn the tide on the climate crisis?

08/10/2019 11801 views 217 likes

Wildfires in Brazil

Fires ravage the Amazon

27/08/2019 17062 views 146 likes

Sargassum in Guadeloupe

Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

30/07/2019 12803 views 126 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 5260 views 60 likes

Greenland snow grain and albedo

Snow grain size – it matters

29/05/2019 7106 views 89 likes

Floods imaged by Copernicus Sentinel-1

Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps floods in wake of Idai

20/03/2019 14460 views 111 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10704 views 89 likes

Losing ice

Greenland ice loss quickening

06/12/2018 8337 views 131 likes

Regional sea-level trends

Spotlight on sea-level rise

25/09/2018 16244 views 97 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 6074 views 93 likes

Tandem in images

Sentinel-3 flies tandem

19/06/2018 9093 views 109 likes

Antarctic sunset from Sentinel-3B

Copernicus Sentinel-3B delivers first images

09/05/2018 23085 views 154 likes

Seventh Sentinel satellite launched for Copernicus

25/04/2018 12227 views 86 likes

Enabling & Support

ESA teams ready for space

24/04/2018 4593 views 61 likes

Into the tower

Sentinel-3B on launch pad

23/04/2018 8882 views 77 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-3B

Sentinel-3B fully tanked

13/04/2018 2978 views 37 likes

Unveiling Sentinel-3B

Sentinel-3B launch preparations in full swing

23/03/2018 7518 views 65 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7528 views 101 likes

Sentinel-3B launch event

Join us for #Sentinel3 launch

21/03/2018 10909 views 72 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5273 views 111 likes

Sentinel-3B tested

Sentinel-3B good to go

02/02/2018 5447 views 39 likes

Sentinel-3 competition winning slogan

Sentinel-3 drawing competition winners announced

19/12/2017 990 views 1 likes

Sentinel-3A sees the effects of spring

See our seasons change from space

06/07/2017 10120 views 90 likes

Pomezia blaze

Pandora measures fire fumes over Rome

28/06/2017 3824 views 55 likes

Desert locust outbreak

Satellites forewarn of locust plagues

13/06/2017 11963 views 112 likes

Into the chamber

The heat is on for Sentinel-3B

01/06/2017 5689 views 69 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7445 views 88 likes

Greenland changing ice

Sentinel-3A Earth colour data released

20/10/2016 11435 views 69 likes

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