ESA - Sentinel-1 - Archive

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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

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 15323 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 5336 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 10610 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 7238 views 59 likes

Jakobshavn Isbrae ice flow

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

13/07/2018 3541 views 50 likes

Lake Maggiore and Baveno

Copernicus 20 years on

21/06/2018 5775 views 92 likes

Antarctica hikes up sea level

13/06/2018 9694 views 158 likes

Rohingya exodus

Sentinel-1 warns of refugee island flood risk

29/05/2018 4843 views 109 likes

Wheat harvest

Sentinels modernise Europe’s agricultural policy

25/05/2018 11380 views 94 likes

Safeguarding our most precious resource: water

22/03/2018 7144 views 101 likes

Examples of layers used for mapping

Sentinels helping to map minerals

20/03/2018 10676 views 147 likes

Full house for EDRS

13/03/2018 6788 views 102 likes

Arriving in South Georgia

Voyaging for the Sentinels

09/03/2018 5096 views 111 likes

Coast Guard Cutter <i>Maple</i>

Satellites guide ships in icy waters through the cloud

07/11/2017 4223 views 49 likes

Wave height during Hurricane Irma

Sentinel-1 sees through hurricanes

25/10/2017 7354 views 116 likes

Secrets of hidden ice canyons revealed

11/10/2017 17092 views 147 likes

Assessing rice crops with Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1 speeds up crop insurance payouts

17/08/2017 13452 views 96 likes

Widening gap

Does loss lead to instability?

02/08/2017 5659 views 90 likes

Larsen C breaks

Sentinel satellite captures birth of behemoth iceberg

12/07/2017 25674 views 247 likes

Desert locust outbreak

Satellites forewarn of locust plagues

13/06/2017 11385 views 111 likes

Negribreen on the move

Negribreen on the move

12/05/2017 7078 views 78 likes

Satellites track Antarctic ice loss over decades

02/05/2017 8527 views 110 likes

ESA helps faster cleaner shipping

13/04/2017 7079 views 87 likes

TimeScan product: Germany

Urban monitoring boosted by new data processor

04/04/2017 6878 views 56 likes

Kaikoura quake

Satellites shed new light on earthquakes

24/03/2017 10441 views 135 likes

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