Sentinel-1C First Image Revealed

A little over a week has past since the launch of the Vega-C rocket on the 6th of December at 07:20am AEST from the Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana, which carried the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite payload.

Since the successful launch, Sentinel-1C has released the official first imagery featuring Svalbard, a remote Norwegian archipelago in the Artic Ocean. This imagery demonstrates a glimpse into its capabilities using its C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) instrument.

Once Sentinel-1C reaches its intended orbit, the satellite will synchronise with Sentinel-1A which is currently in orbit. Both satellites will work together to deliver the Sentinel-1 mission of imaging the Earth at an altitude of around 700km.

With SAR capabilities, the Sentinel constellation has a wide spectrum of uses for our clients, especially within Australia during the summer season for which both fires and flooding tend to occur. Sentinel's SAR has the ability to monitor floods and fire scars which can be exceptionally useful during emergency management. Geoimage has the in-house expertise to use Sentinel and provide benefits to our clients who are in need of Sentinel services.

This latest milestone for Copernicus follows the successful launch of Sentinel-2C earlier this year in September which has provided high-resolution imagery in monitoring land and vegetation.

If you would like to know more about the capabilities of Sentinel-1C, you can read more here via our satellites page. In addition, further information about the Sentinel-1C satellite can be read on the European Space Agency website.