Sentinel-2C: ready for liftoff
Sentinel-2C is ready for launch! The new satellite will soon join its Copernicus Sentinel-2 family in orbit ? where it will continue to provide detailed views of Earth's land and coastal waters.The ...
Sentinel-2C pre-launch media briefing
The Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is set for liftoff on 4 September on the last Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.This recording is of a media briefing held on 29 August ...
Media invitation: Sentinel-2C...
27 August 2024The latest satellite in Europe's Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2C, is set for launch on the last Vega rocket lift off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, on 3 ...
Juices lunar-Earth flyby: the movie
On 19?20 August 2024, Juice successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, with flight controllers guiding the spacecraft first past the Moon, then past Earth. The gravity of the two changed ...
Sentinel-2C in the Vega launch tower
In preparation for liftoff on 4 September 2024 (3 September Kourou time), the Vega?Sentinel-2C upper-composite has been hoisted into the launch tower at Europe's Spaceport.The Sentinel-2 mission is ...
Sentinel-2C sealed in the Vega rocket...
As preparations continue to launch the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite on 4 September, the team at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid farewell to their precious satellite as it was ...
EarthCARE profiles atmospheric...
Launched in May, ESA's EarthCARE satellite has been making waves, with the first images from three of its scientific instruments already delivered. Now, the spotlight is firmly on the atmospheric ...
Juice rerouted to Venus in worlds...
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using the gravity of Earth to send it Venus-bound, on a shortcut to Jupiter through the inner ...
Sentinel-2C fully loaded
With liftoff set for 4 September from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, the Copernicus Sentinel-2C satellite is now fully loaded with 133 kg of hydrazine and the tank pressurised with helium up to ...
Arctic Weather Satellite lifts off to...
ESA's Arctic Weather Satellite has been launched, paving the way for a potential constellation of satellites that would provide more frequent data not only to enhance short-term weather forecasts for ...
