Sentinel-3C on show at cleanroom in Cannes

The next satellite in the EU’s Copernicus programme, Sentinel-3C, on show at a media event hosted on 16 April 2026 by Thales Alenia Space at their cleanrooms in Cannes, France. 

The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captures operational data and provides services for near-real time responses as well as for long term climate monitoring over Earth’s land surfaces, inland water, ice, oceans and atmosphere. Sentinel-3 is often considered as the ‘workhorse’ mission for Copernicus due to the breadth of data it provides, which ranges from altimetry to spectrometry and radiometry in infrared and thermal channels.