Soyuz STA/Fregat | Sentinel-1A

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: Arianespace (Commercial)
• Rocket: Soyuz STA Fregat — Soyuz family

Mission

Sentinel-1 is a C-band imaging radar mission to provide an all-weather day-and-night supply of imagery for Copernicus user services. The first Sentinel-1 satellite is scheduled to be launched on 3 April 2014 and will be followed by the second satellite a few years later.

• Type: Earth Science
• Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)

Launch Site

• Pad: Soyuz Launch Complex
• Location: Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
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Program

• Copernicus — Copernicus is the European Union's Earth observation programme coordinated and managed for the European Commission by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA), the EU Member States. It aims at achieving a global, continuous, autonomous, high quality, wide range Earth observation capacity. Providing accurate, timely and easily accessible information to, among other things, improve the management of the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure civil security. (Wikipedia)