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The mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission is designed as a two-satellite constellation. Each satellite carries an advanced radar instrument to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface. The mission ended for Sentinel-1B in 2022.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-1A - 03 April 2014
Sentinel-1B - 25 April 2016
Sentinel-1C - 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Rocket: Sentinel-1A and -B on Soyuz
Sentinel-1C on Vega-C

1st in the Sentinel series
693 km orbit altitude
7 years mission life

Sentinel-1

Nord Stream leak as captured by Pléiades Neo

Satellites detect methane plume in Nord Stream leak

06/10/2022 17748 views 126 likes

Harmony

ESA selects Harmony as tenth Earth Explorer mission

22/09/2022 11137 views 111 likes

Soil moisture June 2022 northern Italy

Zooming in on drought from space

21/09/2022 3768 views 78 likes

Sentinel-1

Mission ends for Copernicus Sentinel-1B satellite

03/08/2022 29986 views 114 likes

Etna’s uplift and subsidence

Tap into Europe in motion

26/07/2022 6672 views 111 likes

Oil palm plantations distribution

Tracking agricultural-related deforestation

05/05/2022 6687 views 76 likes

Radar vision

Ride into orbit secured for Sentinel-1C

08/04/2022 25209 views 89 likes

Highlighting crops with Agriculture Sandbox NL

Monitoring crop health across the Netherlands

08/02/2022 7038 views 112 likes

A-68A’s position on 17 December

Mega iceberg released 152 billion tonnes of freshwater

20/01/2022 10863 views 80 likes

Bangkok, Thailand

Mapping our human footprint from space

11/11/2021 18563 views 84 likes

Satellites pinpoint communities at risk of permafrost thaw

09/11/2021 4826 views 99 likes

Antarctica

Antarctic glacier named Glasgow to mark COP26

31/10/2021 4103 views 82 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-1A: seven years in operation

First Copernicus satellite exceeds design working life

04/10/2021 4004 views 57 likes

Glacier avalanches in the Sedongpu region, China

Glacier avalanches more common than thought

30/04/2021 5478 views 123 likes

Annual mean shoreline change: Start Bay, Devon

Measuring shoreline retreat

29/03/2021 8635 views 149 likes

Above ground biomass

Maps to improve forest biomass estimates

17/03/2021 10052 views 101 likes

Getz glaciers flowing faster

Getz on the run

23/02/2021 4324 views 90 likes

Satellite radar interferometry effective for mapping crops

Satellite radar interferometry effective for mapping crops

19/02/2021 8470 views 94 likes

New crack in the Brunt Ice Shelf

Is Brunt on the brink?

12/02/2021 7734 views 95 likes

A-68A and A-68G

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

03/02/2021 20198 views 102 likes

Wetlands

Earth observation vital in monitoring wetland waters

02/02/2021 5899 views 86 likes

Optimising agriculture

Cloud-free crop maps foster sustainable farming

25/01/2021 6419 views 56 likes

Earth is losing ice at record rate

Our world is losing ice at record rate

25/01/2021 15322 views 140 likes

Start of Vendée Globe 2020

Copernicus satellites keep eyes on icebergs for Vendée Globe

02/12/2020 4900 views 51 likes

Sentinel data enables new system for agricultural monitorin…

12/11/2020 4653 views 34 likes

Surface deformation across Germany

Germany land motion mapped

03/11/2020 7231 views 61 likes

Copernicus Sentinel-1C radar antenna deployed

Europe’s next radar Sentinel unfolds

07/08/2020 4861 views 51 likes

Satellites provide data on crops

Satellites provide crucial data on crops during COVID-19

06/08/2020 5335 views 80 likes

Mapping the Oaxaca earthquake from space

23/07/2020 4660 views 83 likes

A-68A in open waters

Giant A-68 iceberg three years on

10/07/2020 19405 views 140 likes

Kilauea eruption 2018

Can rain trigger a volcanic eruption?

30/04/2020 10608 views 85 likes

Polarstern shrouded in darkness

Shedding light in the dark: radar satellites lead the way

16/12/2019 6733 views 74 likes

French earthquake interferogram

French earthquake fault mapped

17/11/2019 11529 views 98 likes

Floods northeast of Tokyo captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1

Tracking Typhoon Hagibis from space

29/10/2019 6755 views 66 likes

Cracked: Pine Island Glacier

Emerging cracks in the Pine Island Glacier

18/10/2019 9314 views 89 likes

Polarstern

A year trapped in Arctic ice for climate science

24/09/2019 6233 views 121 likes

Sea ice

Using artificial intelligence to automate sea-ice charting

10/09/2019 5461 views 71 likes

Palu shifted

Using satellite information to help rebuild after a disaster

12/07/2019 7080 views 87 likes

Ice streams named

Antarctic glaciers named after satellites

07/06/2019 4418 views 59 likes

Permafrost thaw

Satellites yield insight into not so permanent permafrost

17/05/2019 9419 views 126 likes

Subsidence in Tuscany

Monitoring Earth’s shifting land

15/05/2019 6435 views 111 likes

Jakobshavn Glacier

Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier bucks the trend

14/05/2019 11292 views 117 likes

Floods imaged by Copernicus Sentinel-1

Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps floods in wake of Idai

20/03/2019 13100 views 109 likes

Sentinels monitor converging ice cracks

14/03/2019 5938 views 84 likes

Cloud-free Europe

New observations for the new economy

08/03/2019 10191 views 88 likes

Volcanic uplift

Copernicus Sentinel-1 reveals shared plumbing led to Agung …

22/02/2019 7198 views 149 likes

InSAR Norway

Copernicus Sentinel-1 maps Norway in motion

10/01/2019 6120 views 92 likes

Floods near Jacksonville

Copernicus Sentinel maps Florence hurricane flood

15/09/2018 10993 views 99 likes

Sentinel-1 maps flash floods in Laos

30/07/2018 7237 views 59 likes

Jakobshavn Isbrae ice flow

It’s all go in summer for Greenland’s glaciers

13/07/2018 3541 views 50 likes

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