Sentinel-2A Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

7 Mar 2017, 1:49am

UTC

Location

Guiana Space Centre

Pad

Ariane Launch Area 1

Launch Service Provider

Arianespace

Vehicle

Vega

Mission

Sentinel-2A

Mission Type

Earth Science

Destination

Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Sentinel-2 is the second mission for Europeâ€™s Copernicus environment monitoring programme. It's a satellite constellation of two identical spacecrafts, Sentinel-2A and -2B. Both carry an innovative wide swath high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation.

Available Replays

Live

Arianespace Flight VV09 / Behind the Scenes of the Dream