Sentinel 2

Sentinel 2

Sentinel 2 is a future space mission from ESA, the second in GMES program.It will provided multispectral earth observation data. It is design for data continuity of Landsat and SPOT-type missions.It is foreseen a launch date around 2012.

Mission characteristics

* Role: Earth Observation
* Launch date: 2012
* Launch mass: ~1100 kg
* Launcher: Vega or Soyuz/Kourou
* Launch location: French Guiana
* Orbit: Sun-synchronous
* Altitude: 786 km
* Orbit cycle: ~100 minutes
* Nominal duration: 7.25 years

Instruments

Sentinel 2 spacecrafts are designed to carry a single multi-spectral instrument.

External links

* [http://www.esa.int/esaLP/LPgmes.html Global Monitoring for Environment and Security at ESA]
* [http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/GMES/GMES_Sentinel2_MRD_issue_2.0_update.pdf GMES Sentinel-2 mission Requirements Document]

Applications

* Land cover, usage and change-detection maps
* Risk mapping
* Fast images for disaster relief


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