Launch site: Kourou, French Guiana
Orbit: Polar, Sun-synchronous at an altitude of 693 km
Revisit time: Six days (at the equator) from two-satellite constellation
Life: Minimum of seven years
Satellite: 21 m long, 2.5 m wide, 4 m high with 2×10 m-long solar arrays and a 12 m-long radar antenna
Mass: 2185 kg
Receiving stations: SAR data: Svalbard, Norway; Matera, Italy; Maspalomas, Spain; Inuvik Canada; and via laser link through EDRS. Telemetry, tracking and command: Kiruna, Sweden
Mission: Developed, operated and managed by various ESA establishments
Main applications: Monitoring sea ice, glacier velocity, oil spills, marine winds, waves & currents, land-use change, land deformation among others, and to respond to emergencies such as floods and earthquakes and support humanitarian aid and crisis situations
Funding: ESA Member States and the European Union
Prime contractors: Thales Alenia Space for the satellite; Airbus Defence and Space for the SAR instrument
Data access: dataspace.copernicus.eu
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