Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second-largest space company, has signed a contract worth €143 million with Thales Alenia Space to build two further space radar instruments for the Copernicus ...

Pre-launch preparations for the Sentinel-1B satellite, carrying an Airbus Defence and Space built radar instrument, are in full swing at Europe´s Kourou Spaceport in French Guiana. The satellite, ...

The second Sentinel-1 satellite – Sentinel-1B – was launched today to provide more ‘radar vision’ for Europe’s environmental Copernicus program. Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket from Europe’s ...

ESA has declared Sentinel-1D fully operational, completing Europe’s radar imaging constellation for Copernicus Earth observation. Meanwhile, the US Space Force awarded BAE Systems an $11.8 million ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite, launched last November, is now fully operational after successfully completing its ...

Less than a week after its launch, the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite has delivered its first radar images of Earth—offering a glimpse into its capabilities for environmental monitoring. These ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Earth observation satellite Sentinel-1D on November 4, 2025 local time, and has transmitted high-resolution images of the Earth from the edge of Antarctica ...

The synthetic aperture radar Sentinel-1D satellite will replace its Sentinel-1A sibling and joins its -1C twin to monitor the ...

The European Space Agency’s launch of the Sentinel-1 satellite has made 20-meter resolution radar imagery of the whole planet freely available. The “all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of ...