Sentinel-2
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Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters. The mission's Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B satellites were joined in orbit in 2024 by a third, Sentinel-2C, and in the future by Sentinel-2D, eventually replacing the A and B satellites, respectively. The mission supports services and applications such as agricultural monitoring, emergencies management, land cover classification, and water quality. Sentinel-2 has been developed and is being operated by the European Space A
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- Spacecraft class.name
- Sentinel-2
- Spacecraft class.image
- Sentinel 2-IMG 5873-white (crop).jpg
- Spacecraft class.image_size
- 275px
- Spacecraft class.image_caption
- Model of a Sentinel-2 satellite
- Spacecraft class.operator
- European Space Agency
- Spacecraft class.applications
- Land and sea monitoring, natural disasters mapping, sea ice observations, ships detection
- Spacecraft class.spacecraft_type
- Satellite
- Spacecraft class.spacecraft_bus
- AstroBus-L
- Spacecraft class.constellation
- 3
- Spacecraft class.design_life
- 7 years
- Spacecraft class.power
- 1,700 W
- Spacecraft class.status
- Active
- Spacecraft class.built
- 3
- Spacecraft class.orders
- 1
- Spacecraft class.launched
- 3
- Spacecraft class.operational
- 3
- Spacecraft class.first
- Sentinel-2A
- Spacecraft class.last
- Sentinel-2C
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- Sentinel 2-IMG 5873-white (crop).jpg
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Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters. The mission's Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B satellites were joined in orbit in 2024 by a third, Sentinel-2C, and in the future by Sentinel-2D, eventually replacing the A and B satellites, respectively. The mission supports services and applications such as agricultural monitoring, emergencies management, land cover classification, and water quality. Sentinel-2 has been developed and is being operated by the European Space Agency. The satellites were manufactured by a consortium led by Airbus Defence and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
==Overview== The Sentinel-2 mission includes: Multi-spectral data with 13 bands in the visible, near infrared, and short wave infrared part of the spectrum Systematic global coverage of land surfaces from 56° S to 84° N, coastal waters, and all of the Mediterranean Sea Revisiting every 10 days under the same viewing angles. At high latitudes, Sentinel-2 swath overlap and some regions will be observed twice or more every 10 days, but with different viewing angles. Spatial resolution of 10 m, 20 m, and 60 m 290 km field of view Free and open data policy