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Sentinel-2A will soon be launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on top of a Vega launcher, making it the second satellite in orbit for Europe’s Copernicus programme.
The Sentinel-2 mission carries an optical payload with visible, near infrared and shortwave infrared sensors with a swath width of 290 km. The polar-orbiting, multispectral high-resolution imaging mission for land monitoring will provide, for example, imagery of vegetation, soil and water cover, inland waterways and coastal areas, as well as deliver information for emergency services.\n<\/p>\n
\nSentinel-2A \u2013 and its sister satellite Sentinel-2B to be launched next year \u2013 are part of the family of Sentinel missions that ESA is developing specifically for the operational needs of the environment-monitoring Copernicus programme, headed by the European Commission. Each mission is based on a constellation of two satellites to fulfill revisit and coverage requirements, providing robust datasets for Copernicus Services.\n<\/p>\n
\nThis video shows Sentinel-2A in preparation in Germany and in Kourou, and explains the challenges of this mission launched by the fifth Vega. It includes interviews with Reinhard Schulte-Braucks, Director of Copernicus Infrastructures at the European Commission, Bianca Hoersch, ESA’s Sentinel-2 Mission Manager, and Fran\u00e7ois Spoto, ESA’s Sentinel-2 Project Manager.\n<\/p>\n
\nThis video is available in English and French<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}