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The mission

Sentinel-5 Precursor – also known as Sentinel-5P – is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. The satellite carries the state-of-the-art Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases, which affect the air we breathe and therefore our health and our climate.

The launch

Date: 13 October 2017
Site: Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia
Launcher: Rockot

2600 km swath width
7 years mission life
824 km orbit altitude

Sentinel-5P

Atmospheric nitrogen dioxide concentrations in 2024

Cleaner air and prosperity can go hand in hand

09/06/2026 5234 views 59 likes

Carbon monoxide emissions over central South America, September 2024

Amazon wildfire emissions up to three times higher than est…

25/03/2026 3105 views 49 likes

Top 10 persistent methane sources

03/02/2025 11502 views 82 likes

Fires threaten topical forest biome

Smouldering woody debris fuels air pollution over the Amazon

27/01/2025 2505 views 29 likes

The 2024 Global Methane Budget reveals alarming trends

10/09/2024 9222 views 54 likes

Smoke from fires in Canada

Canada’s wildfire season begins

16/05/2024 3121 views 14 likes

Ozone hole extension 2023

Ozone hole goes large again

04/10/2023 68733 views 79 likes

Sentinel-5P detected methane plumes

Trio of Sentinel satellites map methane super-emitters

20/09/2023 40912 views 156 likes

Smoke plume from the Litli-Hrútur volcano

Litli-Hrútur eruption seen from space

26/07/2023 17091 views 75 likes

Global methane concentrations

Sentinel-5P data used in new methane detection system

16/11/2022 9301 views 102 likes

Nord Stream leak as captured by Pléiades Neo

Satellites detect methane plume in Nord Stream leak

06/10/2022 20132 views 128 likes

Ozone hole extension 2022

How do satellites monitor the ozone layer?

16/09/2022 10766 views 59 likes

Great Salt Lake in July 2022

Utah’s Great Salt Lake is disappearing

01/08/2022 36357 views 134 likes

Methane growth anomaly

Methane levels surged in 2020 despite lockdowns

23/06/2022 11626 views 86 likes

GHGSat Contract Ceremony

GHGSat joins ESA’s Third Party Mission Programme

24/05/2022 1976 views 35 likes

Rybnik, Poland

Methane detected over Poland’s coal mines

21/03/2022 11946 views 103 likes

Fuelling the climate crisis

ESA supports the White House on greenhouse gas monitoring

24/01/2022 3413 views 58 likes

Landfill site

Satellites detect large methane emissions from Madrid landf…

10/11/2021 21749 views 168 likes

ESA and GHGSat support new International Methane Emissions …

03/11/2021 3879 views 55 likes

La Palma as captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2

La Palma volcano: How satellites help us monitor eruptions

11/10/2021 29994 views 188 likes

Smoke and flames in Australia

Aerosols released from Australian bushfires triggers algal …

30/09/2021 6916 views 73 likes

A map of the ozone hole over the South Pole on 16 September 2021

What’s going on with the ozone?

16/09/2021 12074 views 110 likes

California fires

California continues to burn

15/09/2021 9753 views 102 likes

Mount Etna smoke plumes

Satellites monitor Mount Etna’s unpredictable behaviour

08/04/2021 19734 views 102 likes

Nitrogen dioxide concentrations over China

Air pollution returning to pre-COVID levels

15/03/2021 15271 views 146 likes

Methane hotspots over a gas pipeline in Kazakhstan

Monitoring methane emissions from gas pipelines

04/03/2021 29297 views 204 likes

Methane hotspot detected with Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery

Mapping high-resolution methane emissions from space

14/12/2020 16264 views 121 likes

Nitrogen dioxide emissions over the Mediterranean

Detecting pollution from individual ships from space

09/11/2020 13634 views 160 likes

Ozone hole 2020

Antarctic ozone hole is one of the largest and deepest in r…

19/10/2020 15635 views 95 likes

Between fire and hurricane

US West Coast on fire

18/09/2020 8932 views 84 likes

Nitrogen dioxide concentrations over Europe

Air pollution in a post-COVID-19 world

18/09/2020 15944 views 103 likes

Methane from landfill site in Argentina

High-resolution methane emissions data for waste management

17/09/2020 7739 views 79 likes

Industrial emissions of carbon dioxide fuel our warming climate

Providing the facts to help Europe achieve 55%

16/09/2020 4254 views 48 likes

Methane plume from oil & gas infrastructure in the Caspian Sea region

New Space satellite pinpoints industrial methane emissions

29/07/2020 10700 views 82 likes

Aerosols from Saharan dust plume

Satellites track unusual Saharan dust plume

09/07/2020 27092 views 96 likes

Sulphur dioxide concentrations drop over India during COVID…

01/07/2020 12843 views 58 likes

Methane concentrations over the Permian Basin

Detecting methane emissions during COVID-19

01/06/2020 12617 views 109 likes

Mapping methane emissions on a global scale

04/05/2020 47646 views 167 likes

Air pollution drops in India following lockdown

24/04/2020 31434 views 93 likes

NO2 concentrations over Europe

Air pollution remains low as Europeans stay at home

16/04/2020 53341 views 173 likes

Satellites providing clear picture of greenhouse gases

14/04/2020 15867 views 115 likes

Unusual ozone hole opens over the Arctic

06/04/2020 44858 views 169 likes

Coronavirus: nitrogen dioxide concentrations over Europe

Coronavirus lockdown leading to drop in pollution across Eu…

27/03/2020 160316 views 634 likes

COVID-19: nitrogen dioxide over China

19/03/2020 120023 views 164 likes

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

Australia: like a furnace

09/01/2020 15045 views 140 likes

Ozone hole set to close

Ozone hole set to close

08/11/2019 23207 views 92 likes

Carbon monoxide from Amazon fires

Monitoring air pollution from fires

09/09/2019 14698 views 136 likes

Nitrogen dioxide over Siberian pipelines

Connecting the dots: nitrogen dioxide over Siberian pipelin…

20/06/2019 11140 views 126 likes

The air we breathe

16/05/2019 20573 views 98 likes

Nitrogen dioxide worldwide

Nitrogen dioxide pollution mapped

12/03/2019 83860 views 331 likes

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