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

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 15255 views 184 likes

Aletsch Glacier

Satellites monitor landslide in the Alps

03/02/2017 6023 views 48 likes

Wilkins Ice Shelf, 1994–2015

Sharing Earth observation satellite data to help understand…

01/12/2016 4280 views 51 likes

Millennium Tower sinking

Satellites confirm sinking of San Francisco tower

25/11/2016 90899 views 368 likes

Coast Guard aircraft

Iceberg patrol gains faster updates from orbit

09/11/2016 7380 views 84 likes

East–west shift

Sentinel satellites reveal east–west shift in Italian quake

03/11/2016 10413 views 128 likes

European seismic zones

Keep an automatic eye on seismic zones

28/10/2016 8887 views 91 likes

Sentinel-1A fragment impact in space

Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle

31/08/2016 54078 views 332 likes

Ground displacement from Italy’s earthquake

Sentinel-1 provides new insight into Italy’s earthquake

29/08/2016 22153 views 147 likes

ESA’s Dragon cooperation with China extended to 2020

08/07/2016 6831 views 38 likes

Sentinel-1A and -1B combined

Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision

22/06/2016 15249 views 138 likes

Space data give early warnings

Monitoring pipelines from space

06/06/2016 13143 views 102 likes

Czech Agriculture from Space

Sentinels in the fields

01/06/2016 8115 views 68 likes

Tracking every move

Mapping that sinking feeling

01/06/2016 15501 views 154 likes

Flood map of Barguna, Bangladesh

Sentinel-1 helping Cyclone Roanu relief

26/05/2016 6358 views 58 likes

Sentinel-1A detects slick

Sentinel-1A spots potential oil slick from missing EgyptAir…

20/05/2016 30325 views 184 likes

Spotting geohazards with Sentinel-1

Complex data made easy

12/05/2016 4259 views 38 likes

Living Planet 2016

Spotlight on our living planet

09/05/2016 4242 views 50 likes

Sentinel-1B’s first image

Sentinel-1B delivers

28/04/2016 18752 views 137 likes

Sentinel-1B spreads its wings

27/04/2016 7667 views 134 likes

Sentinel-1B launched to complete radar pair

25/04/2016 18605 views 103 likes

Soyuz VS14 in the mobile gantry

Sentinel-1B launch coundown resumed

25/04/2016 18113 views 155 likes

Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1B liftoff delayed another 24 hours

23/04/2016 8018 views 65 likes

Soyuz VS14 upper composite hoisted to the top of the service tower

Sentinel-1B launch postponed

22/04/2016 8499 views 89 likes

Mission control

Enabling & Support

Teams ready for Sentinel-1B launch

21/04/2016 4750 views 43 likes

Fishing in the Mediterranean

Sentinel-1 counts fish

21/04/2016 10548 views 81 likes

Sentinel-1B heads to launch tower

Sentinel-1B in position for liftoff

20/04/2016 5067 views 76 likes

Sentinel-1B launch event at ESRIN

20/04/2016 5934 views 53 likes

Watch live: Sentinel-1B launch

20/04/2016 64739 views 328 likes

Going to space

Enabling & Support

Training beyond the expected

19/04/2016 3276 views 54 likes

Sentinel-1 sees rice paddy drop in the Mekong Delta

18/04/2016 11178 views 82 likes

Birth of two icebergs

Nansen gives birth to two icebergs

14/04/2016 11428 views 103 likes

Riding Soyuz

Hitching a ride with Sentinel-1B

12/04/2016 4165 views 59 likes

Sentinel-1B arrives in Cayenne

Preparing for more radar vision

10/03/2016 3713 views 45 likes

Landslides threaten transport networks

Keeping transport systems on track

29/02/2016 4302 views 52 likes

Sentinel-1A and Canadian Ice Service chart Davis Strait

Canada breaks the ice with Sentinel-1 data

21/12/2015 4166 views 52 likes

Deal sealed for new Sentinel-1 satellites

15/12/2015 7799 views 56 likes

Ice sheet in motion

International effort reveals Greenland ice loss

13/11/2015 12073 views 131 likes

Ban Ki-moon and Volker Liebig

My Planet from Space exhibition draws special visitor

09/09/2015 2197 views 33 likes

Chasing glacier retreat

Chasing ice

21/08/2015 14378 views 118 likes

Danube River

Sentinels catch traffic jam

07/08/2015 15485 views 80 likes

Danube Delta interferogram

Wetland management on the radar

11/06/2015 4662 views 43 likes

Comparing surface deformation data

Sentinel-1 brings radar remote sensing to new level

08/06/2015 8490 views 42 likes

Nepal earthquake

Nepal earthquake on the radar

29/04/2015 29538 views 135 likes

Sentinel-1

Happy birthday, Sentinel-1A

03/04/2015 3426 views 35 likes

Campi Flegrei monitored by Sentinel-1

Slight surface movements on the radar

23/03/2015 9596 views 68 likes

London, UK

UK joins Sentinel Collaborative Ground Segment

19/03/2015 3671 views 34 likes

Paris, France

France guaranteed access to Sentinel data

18/03/2015 2749 views 26 likes

European Data Relay System confirms services for Copernicus…

25/02/2015 2641 views 29 likes

36 years of radar vision

06/02/2015 6291 views 65 likes

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