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Vega | Sentinel-2B
ArianespaceAriane Launch Area 1 (ELV) — Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Sentinel-2A
- Type
- Earth Science
- Target orbit
- Sun-Synchronous Orbit (SSO)
Sentinel-2 is the second mission for Europe’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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Vega
- Family
- Vega
- Provider
- Arianespace
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- FRA
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launch site
- Pad
- Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV)
- Location
- Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Country
- GUF
- Timezone
- America/Cayenne
- Coordinates
- 5.2360, -52.7750