Sentinel-2A
Sign in to saveSentinel-2A is a European optical imaging satellite launched in 2015. It is the first Sentinel-2 satellite launched by the European Space Agency's and this Sentinel is part of the European Commission's Copernicus Programme. The satellite carries a wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands. Its observations support services such as forest monitoring, land cover change-detection, natural disaster management and water quality monitoring. On 7 March 2017 the Sentinel-2A was joined in orbit by its sister satellite, Sentinel-2B.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Sentinel-2
- Part of
- Sentinel programme
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Followed by
- Sentinel-2B
- Parent body
- Earth
- Mass
- 1017
- Image
- South Georgia Island as seen by Sentinel-2.jpg
- Height
- 2.35
- Width
- 1.8
- Length
- 3.4
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- space launch vehicle
- Vega
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2015-06-23
- start point
- Ensemble de Lancement Vega
- apoapsis
- 796.9
- periapsis
- 795.4
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 7167
- orbital inclination
- 98.6
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.0001045
- funder
- European Union
- service life
- 7
- type of orbit
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- launch contractor
- Arianespace
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- Mission history
- Launch
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Sentinel-2A is a European optical imaging satellite launched in 2015. It is the first Sentinel-2 satellite launched by the European Space Agency's and this Sentinel is part of the European Commission's Copernicus Programme. The satellite carries a wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands. Its observations support services such as forest monitoring, land cover change-detection, natural disaster management and water quality monitoring. On 7 March 2017 the Sentinel-2A was joined in orbit by its sister satellite, Sentinel-2B.
==Mission history==
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