Fully assembled Vega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, ready for launch

Sentinel-2 and Vega VV05, after the mobile gantry withdrawal, waiting to be launched at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 23 June 2015.

Sentinel-2 carries an innovative wide-swath, high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation. The second in the two-satellite mission – Sentinel-2B – is being prepared for launch in 2016.

For more information on the mission, visit www.esa.int/sentinel2