Europe’s Copernicus Earth Observation Constellation welcomed its seventh member on Wednesday after the Sentinel-3B ocean- and land-sensing satellite received a smooth ride to orbit atop a Russian ballistic-missile-turned-space-launcher.
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Europe’s Copernicus satellite fleet is gearing up for the arrival of its next addition on Wednesday with a Russian Rockot booster set to blast off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 17:57 UTC with the Sentinel-3B multi-function satellite.
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Europe’s Sentinel3B Satellite, set to become the newest addition to the Copernicus satellite fleet, arrives at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in
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A Russian ICBM-turned-space-launch-vehicle lifted off from a remote Cosmodrome north of Moscow on Friday, boosting into orbit a satellite joining the world’s largest environmental monitoring constellation.
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Europe’s Sentinel-5P atmospheric monitoring satellite is shipped out from Airbus Defence & Space to its Plesetsk launch site in northern
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The Sentinel-5P atmospheric monitoring satellite finishes assembly and testing for launch in 2017 to act as a gapfiller mission, ensuring a critical atmospheric data record remains uninterrupted for climate research and operational applications such as pollution monitoring.
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Photos courtesy of Eurockot Launch Services – http://www.eurockot.com/ – depicting the activities of the Sentinel-5P launch campaign at the Plesetsk
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Sentinel-5P, formally the Sentinel-5 Precursor – Atmospheric Monitoring Satellite, is a pre-operational mission flying within the framework of the European Copernicus Program
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Vega – the smallest in Europe’s line of launch vehicle – lit up the night skies over the edge of the Amazon on Monday, thundering off to lift the newest member in the Copernicus constellation to orbit, taking the pulse of an ever-changing planet with a series of active observation posts circling the Earth.
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Europe’s Copernicus Earth Observation Constellation will welcome its newest member Monday night when the Sentinel-2B satellite blasts off from the Guiana Space Center atop a Vega Rocket, blazing into orbit to cut in half the revisit time for multispectral images.
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Europe’s Sentinel-1A radar satellite, circling the Earth for over two years as part of the Copernicus Program, suffered a close recently when a small piece of space debris struck on of the satellite’s two power-generating solar arrays.
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The Sentinel-1B satellite – set to complete the radar pair in the Copernicus satellite constellation – successfully spread its wings in orbit, deploying its solar arrays and 12-meter long radar antenna as part of its critical three-day Launch and Early Operations Phase.
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A Russian-built Soyuz rocket topped by a Fregat Upper Stage lifted off from French Guiana on Monday on a long mission to deliver Europe’s Sentinel-1B environmental monitoring satellite, the French MicroSCOPE fundamental physics experiment satellite, and three small CubeSats from European universities into custom orbits .
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The launch of Europe’s Sentinel-1B satellite atop a Russian Soyuz rocket was scrubbed on Sunday in the last hour of the countdown due to a technical issue with the 46-meter tall rocket.
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The launch of Europe’s Sentinel-1B satellite atop a Russian-built Soyuz rocket was delayed on Friday due to poor weather at the ELS Launch Site of the Guiana Space Center.
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A Soyuz rocket stands tall at its equatorial launch site in French Guiana for liftoff on Friday with the Sentinel-1B radar satellite to join Europe’s Copernicus satellite constellation dedicated to Earth observation.
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Europe’s newly launched Sentinel-3A satellite snapped its first images of Earth, delivering a taste of what can be expected from the most comprehensive Sentinel satellite launched so far.
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Europe’s latest addition to the Copernicus Earth Observation Satellite Constellation is taking its first steps in orbit after receiving a smooth ride on Tuesday atop a Russian booster.
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A Rockot launch vehicle rumbled into the night sky over Russia on Tuesday, lifting into orbit Europe’s Sentinel-3A satellite, joining the Copernicus Earth Observation Program as the constellation’s most heavily instrumented satellite launched to date.
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Europe’s Copernicus Earth Observation Satellite Constellation is looking forward to its next addition on Tuesday when the program’s most comprehensive satellite to date rumbles into orbit atop a converted Soviet-era ballistic missile.
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The newly launched Sentinel-1A satellite has returned the first images acquired with its high-fidelity radar system. Sentinel-1A is making good progress in its commissioning phase that will prepare the satellite for regular acquisition of high-resolution and calibrated radar images for release through the European Commission’s Copernicus program.
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