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

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

Australia: like a furnace

09/01/2020 14667 views 140 likes

Fires around the world

Is Earth on fire?

25/10/2019 24108 views 110 likes

Sea roughness key to carbon flux

Can oceans turn the tide on the climate crisis?

08/10/2019 11815 views 217 likes

Wildfires in Brazil

Fires ravage the Amazon

27/08/2019 17076 views 146 likes

Sargassum in Guadeloupe

Washed up: Sargassum blankets beaches

30/07/2019 12809 views 126 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 5292 views 60 likes

Greenland snow grain and albedo

Snow grain size – it matters

29/05/2019 7121 views 89 likes

Floods imaged by Copernicus Sentinel-1

Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps floods in wake of Idai

20/03/2019 14480 views 111 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10714 views 89 likes

Losing ice

Greenland ice loss quickening

06/12/2018 8343 views 131 likes

Regional sea-level trends

Spotlight on sea-level rise

25/09/2018 16265 views 97 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 6079 views 93 likes

Tandem in images

Sentinel-3 flies tandem

19/06/2018 9108 views 109 likes

Antarctic sunset from Sentinel-3B

Copernicus Sentinel-3B delivers first images

09/05/2018 23093 views 154 likes

Seventh Sentinel satellite launched for Copernicus

25/04/2018 12248 views 86 likes

Enabling & Support

ESA teams ready for space

24/04/2018 4597 views 61 likes

Into the tower

Sentinel-3B on launch pad

23/04/2018 8889 views 77 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-3B

Sentinel-3B fully tanked

13/04/2018 2984 views 37 likes

Unveiling Sentinel-3B

Sentinel-3B launch preparations in full swing

23/03/2018 7527 views 65 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7531 views 101 likes

Sentinel-3B launch event

Join us for #Sentinel3 launch

21/03/2018 10914 views 72 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5276 views 111 likes

Sentinel-3B tested

Sentinel-3B good to go

02/02/2018 5455 views 39 likes

Sentinel-3 competition winning slogan

Sentinel-3 drawing competition winners announced

19/12/2017 992 views 1 likes

Sentinel-3A sees the effects of spring

See our seasons change from space

06/07/2017 10126 views 90 likes

Pomezia blaze

Pandora measures fire fumes over Rome

28/06/2017 3826 views 55 likes

Desert locust outbreak

Satellites forewarn of locust plagues

13/06/2017 11972 views 112 likes

Into the chamber

The heat is on for Sentinel-3B

01/06/2017 5694 views 69 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7450 views 88 likes

Greenland changing ice

Sentinel-3A Earth colour data released

20/10/2016 11439 views 69 likes

Living in the twilight zone

Satellites help understand what fuels the twilight zone

27/09/2016 5447 views 69 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-3

Europe’s workhorse Sentinel ready for action

13/07/2016 8242 views 80 likes

Estonia

Estonia’s first contract with ESA focuses on ocean health

07/06/2016 3906 views 39 likes

Fort McMurray wildfires

Canadian fires tracked by satellites

19/05/2016 20875 views 60 likes

Thermal signature of Namibian coastline

Sentinel-3A feels the heat

06/04/2016 15321 views 101 likes

Islands in red

Sentinel-3A continues to impress

08/03/2016 13035 views 94 likes

Sea-level track from Sentinel-3A

Sentinel-3A rides the waves

04/03/2016 11771 views 108 likes

First image from Sentinel-3A

First views of Earth from Sentinel-3A

02/03/2016 38759 views 189 likes

Sentinel-3 and the ocean carbon conundrum

25/02/2016 8798 views 106 likes

Sentinel-3 is ejected from the Breeze upper stage

Enabling & Support

Nonstop LEOP full stop

25/02/2016 11465 views 48 likes

Sentinel-3A dances with northern lights

19/02/2016 5614 views 88 likes

Third Sentinel satellite launched for Copernicus

16/02/2016 27696 views 148 likes

Workhorse mission for Copernicus

Enabling & Support

All dressed up with somewhere to go

15/02/2016 6430 views 71 likes

Sentinel-3A heads to launch pad

Sentinel-3A poised for liftoff

12/02/2016 6067 views 57 likes

Sentinel-3C & 3D contract signature

Sentinel-3 family grows

10/02/2016 3499 views 31 likes

Sentinel-3 is ejected from the Breeze upper stage

Enabling & Support

Mission teams prepare for critical days

05/02/2016 7346 views 65 likes

Thumbs up on the fuelling front

Sentinel-3A fully tanked

04/02/2016 6165 views 81 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-3

Rise and shine for Sentinel-3A

14/01/2016 5652 views 40 likes

Ready for departure

Sentinel-3A taking final steps to launch

03/12/2015 4474 views 42 likes

Sentinel-3 over ocean and ice

Sentinel-3A on its way

20/11/2015 8477 views 99 likes

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