Sentinel-1

Sentinel-1

Model of a Sentinel 1 (radar antenna missing)
Manufacturer
Operator European Space Agency
Applications Land and sea monitoring, natural disasters mapping, sea ice observations, ships detection
Specifications
Spacecraft type ghoda
Constellation 2
Design life 7 years
Launch mass 2300 kg
Dimensions 3.9 metres by 2.6 metres by 2.5 metres (13 ft × 8.5 ft × 8.2 ft)
Power 5.9 kilowatts (5,900 W)[2]
Batteries 324 Ah
Production
Status Active
Built 1
On order 2
Launched 2
Operational 1
First launch Sentinel-1A
3 April 2014[3]
Last launch Sentinel-1D
TBD
Related spacecraft
Subsatellite of Copernicus Programme
Sentinel-2

Sentinel-1 is a space mission funded by the European Union and carried out by the ESA within the Copernicus Programme, consisting of a constellation of two satellites. The payload of Sentinel-1 is a Synthetic Aperture Radar in C-band that provides continuous imagery (day, night and all weather).

On 12 March 2010, the European Space Agency and Thales Alenia Space signed a contract worth €270 million to build the second satellite of the Sentinel-1 pair.

First Sentinel 1A arrived at launch site in Kourou, French Guiana on 25 February.[4] Sentinel-1A satellite was launched on 3 April 2014, by a Soyuz Rocket.[5]

Instruments

Sentinel-1 spacecrafts are designed to carry following instruments:

Applications

Sentinel-1 will provide continuity of data from ERS and Envisat missions, with further enhancements in terms of revisit, coverage, timeliness and reliability of service.

A summary of applications are:

Shortly after the August 2014 South Napa earthquake, data collected by Sentinel 1A was used to develop an interferometric synthetic aperture radar, or InSAR, image of the affected region. The Sentinel-1 satellites are expected to make analysis of earthquakes using InSAR techniques quicker and simpler.[6]

Industrial

Prime contractor of mission is Thales Alenia Space Italy, with whole system integration and also with production of platform Spacecraft Management Unit (SMU) and payload Data Storage and Handling Assembly (DSHA). SAR instrument on payload is the responsibility of Astrium Gmbh. The Ground Segment prime contractor is Astrium with subcontractors Telespazio, WERUM, Advanced Computer Systems and ARESYS.

Spacecraft

References

  1. "Sentinel 1 - Earth Online - ESA". ESA. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  2. "Sentinel 1 Datasheet" (PDF). ESA. August 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 "Earth Online - Sentinel 1". ESA. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
  4. Thales Alenia Space. Sentinel 1A arrives at launch site in French Guiana
  5. « Arianespace boosts Sentinel-1A Earth observation satellite into orbit », Arianespace Press Release, 3 avril 2014, Arianespace Twitter
  6. "Sentinel System Captures Napa Quake". BBC News. Retrieved: 2 September 2014.
  7. 1 2 "Decolla la space economy italiana" [Take off of the Italian space economy] (in Italian). Airpress. Retrieved 15 December 2015.

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