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Checking the communication links between various buildings that will be used for the satellite before it is finally transported to the launch pad.
Credits: ESA–B. v/d Els
Opening Sentinel-1A's container after arriving in Kourou. After its long journey from Europe, Sentinel-1A and its container were left to stabilise for a while.
Credits: ESA–M. Shafiq
Svein Lokas, ESA's Sentinel-1A Launch Campaign Manager, happy that the satellite has arrived in Kourou safely!
Credits: ESA–M. Shafiq
Sentinel-1A safe and sound after its journey to Europe's spaceport in French Guiana.
Credits: ESA–M. Shafiq
Lagos, Nigeria
Date: 2021-03-02
Sentinel-1 GRD + Custom Script with orthorectification and radiometric terrain correction
Author: Monja Šebela
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2021], processed by Sentinel Hub
In the cleanroom: Veronique Bellardo (Thales Alenia Space), Marco Cesa, Adriano Carbone, Deniz Uestuener, Paul Snoeij and Julija Mataityte (all ESA).
Credits: ESA–B. v/d Elst
Several checks were made to ensure that the container’s ‘environmental conditions’ were okay. Once everything was confirmed to be ‘nominal’, the Sentinel-1A satellite was carefully removed and moved to the High Bay.
Credits: ESA–M. Shafiq
Detailed checks were completed to make sure the synthetic aperture radar instrument works correctly.
Credits: ESA–B. v/d Els
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2018-2023], processed by Sentinel Hub/Pierre Markuse
Animation of radar satellite images showing the Garzweiler surface mine closing in to Lützerath in NRW, Germany.
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The field campaign in the Biebrza national park, Poland, sets out to establish a soil-moisture measurement network to validate data from the Sentinel-1 radar mission.
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the anechoic test chamber during radio frequency tests, at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 30 January 2014.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 21 January 2014. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Following the devastating earthquake that struck Morocco on 8 September 2023, radar measurements from Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission are being used to analyse how the ground has shifted as a result of the quake. This deformation map uses Sentinel-1 acquisitions from 11 September and 30 August 2023, retrieved from an interferogram.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023), processed by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the DIAPASON InSAR service of CNES integrated by TRE Altamira on the Geohazard Exploitation Platform GEP/ESA.
Along the way to the launch site, the Sentinel-1A convoy made four scheduled stops: two to check on the satellite container’s ‘environmental conditions’ and another two were to allow traffic to pass the large convoy.
Watched by the ESA team, the cargo was offloaded by staff from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG), from Thales Alenia Space and the Antonov crew.
Credits: ESA–M. Shafiq
Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the anechoic test chamber during radio frequency tests, at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 30 January 2014.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 21 January 2014. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the anechoic test chamber during radio frequency tests, at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 30 January 2014.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 21 January 2014. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
Credits: ESA–M. Pedoussaut, 2014
Satellite: Sentinel-1. SAR (Radar de Apertura Sintética).
La imagen tiene 183 km de ancho (aprox.)
Imagen de radar mostrando los grandes lagos de origen glaciar del sur de los Alpes. Los dos más grandes son el lago Maggiore (Mayor), a la izquierda, y el lago de Como. Entre ambos se encuentra el lago Lugano, en su mayor parte en territorio suizo. En la esquina inferior derecha de la imagen se encuentra el lago Iseo.
Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the anechoic test chamber during radio frequency tests, at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, on 30 January 2014.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
At 10:15 local time on Monday 24 February 2014, the Antonov aircraft carrying Sentinel-1 arrived safely in Cayenne, French Guiana.
Credits: ESA–M. Shafiq
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Sentinel-1 is the first satellite built specifically for Europe’s ambitious Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.
Credits: ESA/ATG medialab
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
Testing the deployment of the Sentinel-1A radar antenna in the cleanroom at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France. As the satellite is designed to operate in orbit, it is hung from a structure during tests to simulate weightlessness.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja, 2014
On 28 March 2025, a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, sending shockwaves through the region. While the country is still dealing with the devasting aftermath, scientists have used radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites to reveal a detailed picture of how the ground shifted during the quake – offering new insights into the mechanics of the Sagaing Fault and the scale of the seismic rupture.
The image uses data from Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1C to reveal a ‘coherence map’, where the fault appears as a dark fracture slicing through the land. This coherence map shows areas that have changed between the two acquisition dates as dark tones while stable areas appear bright. These impressive results demonstrate that the new Sentinel-1C satellite is working perfectly and its data can be used with confidence alongside its older Sentinel-1A sibling.
Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2025), processed by DLR Microwave & Radar Institute/ESA
Placing the Earth-observer Sentinel-1C onto its "vampire" payload launch adapter to connect the satellite to the Vega-C rocket that will launch it into a polar orbit, 19 November 2024 at Europe Spaceport's payload integration facility.
Earth-observer Sentinel-1C is set to launch on Vega-C rocket flight VV25. At 35 m tall, Vega-C weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad and reaches orbit with three solid-propellant-powered stages before the fourth liquid-propellant stage takes over for precise placement of Sentinel-1C into its orbit.
The payload adapter connects the satellite and the rocket launching it. The VAMPIRE backronym stands for Vega Adapter for Multiple Payload Injection and Release.
Visible to the right is a fairing half that will protect Sentinel-1C from the elements on the launch pad and during launch through our atmosphere.
Carrying advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface, the ambitious Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has raised the bar for spaceborne radar.
The mission benefits numerous Copernicus services and applications such as those that relate to Arctic sea-ice monitoring, iceberg tracking, routine sea-ice mapping, glacier-velocity monitoring, surveillance of the marine environment including oil-spill monitoring and ship detection for maritime security as well as illegal fisheries monitoring.
Europe’s Vega-C rocket can launch 2300 kg into space, such as small scientific and Earth observation spacecraft. Vega-C is the evolution of the Vega family of rockets and delivers increased performance, greater payload volume and improved competitiveness.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique du vidéo du CSG–S. Martin
Satellite: Sentinel-1. SAR (Radar de Apertura Sintética).
La imagen tiene 105 km de ancho (aprox.)
En la inmensidad del Atlántico, la naturaleza ha creado un archipiélago de infinita armonía. Entre buceos en el azul profundo, caminatas en paisajes que deslumbran la vista o aventuras sorprendentes, es por ello, por la intensa diversidad de Azores que te invitamos a venir. (www.visitazores.com/es)
A diferencia de los sensores ópticos, que registran la luz del sol reflejada en la superficie terrestres, los sensores de radar como el del satélite Sentinel-1 emiten sus propias ondas y registran el reflejo de estas procedente de la superficie. Tienen la gran ventaja de funcionar de noche y de atravesar las nubes.
Esta imagen ha sido procesada con el navegador EO Browser (apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser) de Sentinel Hub. Sentinel Hub es un motor de procesamiento de datos satelitales, dentro del programa de observación de la Tierra Copernicus (copernicus.eu) de la Unión Europea, operado por la empresa Sinergise. EO Browser es gratuito y fácil de usar. El norte siempre está arriba.
This image has been processed using the EO Browser (apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser) by Sentinel Hub. Sentinel Hub is a satellite data processing engine, within the European Union's Earth observation programme Copernicus (copernicus.eu), operated by the Sinergise company. EO Browser is free and easy to use. North is always up.