Launch Overview
Vehicle
Vega
Agency
Arianespace
Site / Pad
CSG / ZLV
Outcome
Success
Flight
VV09
COSPAR Designator
2017-013
Mission
Sentinel-2A (Earth Science)
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.
Vehicle & Provider
Rocket
Vega
Provider
Arianespace
Agency launches
254 (3 YTD)
Site launches
269 (3 YTD)
Pad launches
35 (1 YTD)