ESA - Sentinel-2 - Archive

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The mission

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission is based on a constellation of two identical satellites in the same orbit. Each satellite carries an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation.

The launch

Date: Sentinel-2A - 23 June 2015
Sentinel-2B - 7 March 2017
Sentinel-2C - 2024
Site: Kourou, French Guiana
Launcher: Vega rocket

10 m resolution
13 spectral bands
290 km swath
5-day revisit time

Sentinel-2

Mapping African land cover

Improving land cover mapping with Sentinel-2

24/03/2017 10589 views 95 likes

Sun glitter

Glitter helps to monitor ocean waves

20/03/2017 6458 views 87 likes

Brindisi, Italy

A ‘toast’ to Copernicus Sentinel-2B as it delivers its firs…

15/03/2017 17327 views 151 likes

Mission control room

Enabling & Support

Orbiting in sunshine

09/03/2017 7325 views 100 likes

Second ‘colour vision’ satellite for Copernicus launched

07/03/2017 16893 views 131 likes

Sentinel-2: high-resolution and multispectral

Enabling & Support

Dressed to thrill

03/03/2017 5193 views 62 likes

Watch live: Sentinel-2B launch

03/03/2017 13608 views 91 likes

#Sentinel2Go launch event at ESOC

03/03/2017 12539 views 60 likes

Sentinel-2B in launch tower

Sentinel-2B poised for liftoff

02/03/2017 6323 views 75 likes

Vega VV09 upper composite transferred to launcher assembly area

Call for Media: launch of Sentinel-2B satellite for Coperni…

28/02/2017 989 views 2 likes

Halloween Crack

Sentinels warn of dangerous ice crack

16/02/2017 15243 views 184 likes

Sentinel-2 brings land into focus

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 teams prepare for space

16/02/2017 6042 views 62 likes

Fuelling Sentinel-2B

Fuel Sentinel-2B: done

16/02/2017 4133 views 54 likes

BASF agriculture test site

Farmers to benefit from ESA–BASF collaboration

10/02/2017 4441 views 60 likes

Revealing Sentinel-2B

Sentinel-2B launch preparations off to a flying start

12/01/2017 9291 views 86 likes

Sentinel-2B satellite at ESA’s site in the Netherlands

Farewell to Sentinel-2B

15/11/2016 6876 views 84 likes

Living in the twilight zone

Satellites help understand what fuels the twilight zone

27/09/2016 4938 views 69 likes

Sentinel-2B in vacuum chamber

Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B

18/07/2016 6027 views 83 likes

Detecting coral bleaching

Looking out for coral bleaching

01/07/2016 3687 views 56 likes

Estonia

Estonia’s first contract with ESA focuses on ocean health

07/06/2016 3764 views 39 likes

Czech Agriculture from Space

Sentinels in the fields

01/06/2016 8114 views 68 likes

Catching sun glitter

Sun glitter reveals coastal waves

19/05/2016 8656 views 74 likes

Living Planet 2016

Spotlight on our living planet

09/05/2016 4242 views 50 likes

Birth of two icebergs

Nansen gives birth to two icebergs

14/04/2016 11426 views 103 likes

Fatu Huku

World’s corals under threat

24/02/2016 6552 views 72 likes

Satellites used to guide farming

Farmers benefit from satellite coverage

02/12/2015 13570 views 96 likes

Ban Ki-moon and Volker Liebig

My Planet from Space exhibition draws special visitor

09/09/2015 2197 views 33 likes

Eye of an algal storm

Sentinel-2 catches eye of algal storm

04/09/2015 37632 views 126 likes

Chasing glacier retreat

Chasing ice

21/08/2015 14374 views 118 likes

Red Sea reefs

Help wanted on tracking biodiversity from space

12/08/2015 7056 views 58 likes

Danube River

Sentinels catch traffic jam

07/08/2015 15485 views 80 likes

Agriculture in Saudi Arabia

First applications from Sentinel-2A

27/07/2015 21323 views 85 likes

Sentinel-2 kids’ competition winner

Student wins Sentinel-2 drawing competition

02/07/2015 4930 views 5 likes

Northwest Italy and southern France from Sentinel-2A

Sentinel-2 delivers first images

29/06/2015 52745 views 168 likes

Sentinel-2A completes critical first days in space

26/06/2015 7325 views 73 likes

Second Copernicus environmental satellite safely in orbit

23/06/2015 18882 views 107 likes

Enabling & Support

Sentinel-2 launch timeline

19/06/2015 10463 views 37 likes

Vega VV05 in its mobile gantry

Sentinel-2A poised high

17/06/2015 5448 views 54 likes

Turbidity at the mouth of the Elbe

Worldwide water quality app hits the web

16/06/2015 8214 views 56 likes

Encapsulation begins

Sentinel-2A sealed from view

09/06/2015 5294 views 44 likes

Sentinel-2A in Kourou

New launch date set for Sentinel-2A

04/06/2015 9058 views 64 likes

Big bird arrives

Preparing to launch ‘colour vision’ satellite

23/04/2015 8899 views 74 likes

'Colour vision' photo competition

Calling all photographers!

13/04/2015 20056 views 85 likes

Last stretch before being packed tight

08/04/2015 5864 views 54 likes

Last look at Sentinel-2A

24/02/2015 10012 views 91 likes

Sentinel-2 practises laser spin

11/02/2015 5439 views 49 likes

Trial separation prepares for final release

30/10/2014 2368 views 37 likes

Signing the Agreement

Copernicus operations secured until 2021

28/10/2014 8249 views 62 likes

Sentinel toolbox

New toolboxes make using Sentinel data easy

30/09/2014 6713 views 39 likes

Sentinel-2A with solar wing

A wing for Sentinel-2A

01/09/2014 3728 views 45 likes

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